2025-07-08
2025-07-08
I picked up a couple of Suikalikes I thought might have interesting mechanics. I'm on the fence about Spicy Fruit. I really like how the fruit's facial expressions change, but the gimmick--feeding a fruit a chili so it becomes spicy, so merging gives bonus points--is kinda eh. If you can manage to merge 2 chilis (which requires spicy-fying a fruit, then dropped 2 chilis on top of it, which isn't as common as I'd like) it becomes a hungry fruit and it grows and creates explosions until it eventually pops and sets everything on fire.
The game is super polished, runs great on Steam Deck, and has a bunch of different themes. So if you just wanna Suikaround a bit it's a solid choice. But there's not enough going on there to keep my interest beyond the occasional "my brain is too fried for anything else" play.