Fractal | |
Developer: | Cipher Prime |
Released: | OS X, Windows May 26, 2010 iOS August 18, 2011 Android, Linux June 18, 2013 |
Platforms: | Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS, Android |
Genre: | Puzzle, strategy |
Modes: | Single-player |
Engine: | Unity |
Fractal: Make Blooms Not War is a puzzle video game by Cipher Prime.[1] The game involves pushing hexagonal fragments together to form large hexagons and chain reactions.[2]
Fractal was released by Cipher Prime via their website on May 26, 2010, for OS X and Microsoft Windows.[3]
Fractals gameplay revolves around pushing hexagons into seven-hexagon clusters, or "blooms", which earn the player points.[4] Fractal features three gameplay modes, campaign, arcade, and puzzle.[5] In campaign mode, the player progresses by earning enough points to clear each level. Over the course of the thirty-level campaign, the player encounters different kinds of power-up hexagons with special abilities (hexagons that cause explosions, or that destroy all adjacent hexagons) that help the player earn points. In arcade mode, the player works toward setting a high score by surviving for as long as possible. In the fifty-level puzzle mode, the player is tasked with completing objectives in a limited number of moves.[6] Each series of challenges in puzzle mode (Koch, Menger, Sierpinski, Julia, Mandelbrot, and Dragon) is named after a different fractal set.[7]
The game has a Metacritic score of 84% based on 4 critic reviews.[8]