Sometimes a game just seems to come out of nowhere. I hadn’t heard of this before release. I even ignored the thread about it on the Touch Arcade forums. I kept seeing little mentions of it, though. And then Rock, Paper, Shotgun wrote about it. A PC site, writing about an iPhone game? It must be pretty special.

So I bought it.

And guess what?

It’s pretty special.

I can’t comment on the music, which everyone seems to adore, because I’ve not played with sound on yet. I will say, though, that it looks lovely, the spider moves as a spider should, the controls are perfect for the iPhone and it’s compelling and satisfying.


Basically, you are the spider of the title and you proceed through 2D levels spinning webs to catch insects, then moving on. You have a limited amount of silk, replenished by eating bugs, so you need to work out where the insects go and spin in the right places. Some insects run away from you and you have to herd them into your webs. Some you can’t catch in webs, but have to attack directly by leaping at them. That sort of thing.

It’s just obviously been together with great care. There’s no Lite version to try, but I’m confident that if you spend your £1.79 on this you won’t feel cheated.