Medusa's Marbles

A challenge is always good for a quick mobile game, but this app is punishingly and unforgivingly difficult. Just a few levels into the map, you’ll be repeating levels over and over again to pass. Tightly winding and overlapping trails combine with poor hit detection to make a living nightmare on just where your placed shot is actually going to go. Further, the random ball generator likes to favorite colors, and you’ll watch the last part of a row slide into the failure tunnel while you endlessly cycle the color you don’t need into oblivion. I routinely will receive the same color ball 15 times or more in a row, and with programming like this any fun to be had drowns quickly in frustration. I’m on my 44th attempt on just the tenth level with no end in sight.

This really is a puzzle game of sorts. Matching the colors takes patience while you anticipate what color is next.