Free Flash Game of the Day: Flood It!

Flood It! by romech

To start I want to explain how to play the game because it’s not explained very well in game and it took me a little while to figure it out. The developer has this to say about the game:

Description: Fill all the pixels with one color. You start from the top-left corner and move deeper changing colors.
Instructions: Use the buttons below to change color.

Not very descriptive, huh? Well the end goal is to make the screen all one color. You do this by changing the color of the “flood”. It starts with just one box, the upper left. You then choose a color to change it too. Then any boxes bordering the “flood” that are that color are now part of the flood. It sounds a little confusing but it shouldn’t take long to figure out.

Gameplay: 4/5
The gameplay is simple but actually quite fun. It is pretty difficult though, and it starts out that way. There’s no working up to it. There are different difficulties but the easiest doesn’t do much to teach you the ropes. That aside the general puzzle is good. You have to think ahead several steps to do well. It’s a fun little brain teaser and when you win you feel like you accomplished something.

Graphics: 2/5
Graphics are very basic. Now there is nothing wrong with simple graphics in a fun game but this takes it a bit too far. A little extra work would have gone a long ways here.

Sound: 0/5
There is no sound. That’s just laziness on the developer’s part. There are plenty of free options out there that there is no reason to leave such an important aspect out of a game.

Polish: 2/5
A lot of little things could have been done to polish this one up; better instructions, tutorials, animations, sounds, explanation of the score, goals, etc, all could have taken this one to the next level.

Replayability: 3/5
It’s a fun game but there is not much more than that to keep you going. You won’t spend hours at a time playing it like some games, but you can keep coming back to it from time to time and enjoy playing it for a little while more.

Multiplayer: N/A

Overall (not an average): 3/5
It’s a very fun game. Fun enough I wanted to feature it so others might give it a chance instead of passing it by. Unfortunately it is lacking in a lot of areas. With a little work Flood It! 2 could be quite a success.