Mini Review: Can Of Wormholes (Switch) - A Very Worm Welcome For This Ingenious Puzzler

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Greetings, worms! Finally, for all you readers who are worms, scouring Nintendo Life for worm-related content, here’s a game that puts annelids front and centre. Wiggling onto Switch from solo dev Munted Finger, Can of Wormholes dares to open that proverbial can and launch squiggly bird food – if we may call you that – straight at a wonderful array of cross-dimensional puzzles. Worms everywhere can stand proud. Or at least just sort of lie proud.

The rules of the game are simple enough to get your minuscule worm brains around: on each stage, you, the worm protagonist, must wriggle into a worm-shaped slot. You move your head square-by-square on a grid and the rest of your body follows the path you take – much like when you eat through a flowerbed, aerating the soil. A critical tweak to proceedings is that, when reversing, your tail end always goes back in a straight line, not retracing the route it came by. Further mechanical additions include pills that can be eaten to grow longer, blocks to push, shapes to ingest, and more. The game even permits the sad discovery that slicing a worm in two does not, in fact, create two worms. (Not two living worms, anyway.)

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