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Flood-It is Addicting & Fun

When it comes down to gaming on a mobile device, sometimes the games that attempt to turn your phone or media player in to a full-fledged gaming console can be a bit much. You may find yourself in need of a fun and simple game to play while waiting for the bus or simply filling five or ten minutes between meetings. Flood-It takes that need by the horns in a very addicting manor.

Flood-It! was developed by LabPixies and is available on the iPhone and iPod touch as an app as well as several other platforms including iGoogle and as a browser toolbar among a few others. I’m giving it full marks for platform support.

Flood-It! has a very simple overall concept. Your objective is to fill the screen with one solid color. In order to achieve this, you need to select from the color options at the bottom of the screen which change your captured spaces to the given color. Any adjoining spaces that share the color you selected become part of your captured mass. You have a limited number of steps depending on difficulty and field size and often capturing the entire field in the given steps can be difficult. This is a puzzle game at its core and one that can be played from start to finish in a minute or two making it perfect for those occasions where you might find yourself with a couple minutes to kill.

Flood-It! is ad supported and the ads appear at the top of the screen. They do not detract from the gaming experience and thankfully they don’t force you to spend valuable seconds between games stuck on an annoying advertisement screen.

Overall, this is a fun little game without a lot of pros or cons to speak about. It does its job of occupying you for a few minutes or your kids during a long car ride. This app fits very well with other puzzle games on the platform.