Munch Mob

Munch Mob looks down on a park moulded out of plasticine and gives you a small crowd of green eaters rather than a single one. The panel in the corner counts them as Crumb Snackers times five, and they trail behind each other as you steer, so the line is as much a shape as a cursor.

What you can swallow depends on your tier. A padlock hangs over the mob until it has eaten enough to move up, and each jump from one tier to the next puts bigger things on the menu. The objective list spells out the goal plainly: eat twenty-five things, reach an eight times combo, and eventually devour the mail truck.

A clock runs the whole time, which turns the park into a routing problem. Flowers and small objects go down quickly and keep a combo alive, while heavier scenery is worth more but costs seconds you may not have. Letting the combo lapse to chase one big item is exactly what the frenzy meter punishes.

The park is cluttered on purpose, with a house, a tree, a swing set, a garden gnome and a gardener who was not expecting company. Everything is modelled in the same soft clay, so you can instantly read the scale of what you are about to eat, and that matters when the timer is short.