Roxio Bad Piggies

Roxio, the creators of the wildly successful Angry Birds franchise, has a new game out that they hope will re-ignite their fire. The new game is Bad Piggies and it’s available now for Android and iOS at their respective online stores for $0.99. Their last game, Amazing Alex, was a brief hit but has faded fast.

Here’s some basic information on Bad Piggies:

The game is very much based around physics, like Angry Birds. However, there’s no destruction here. Instead, your goal is get the Bad Piggies from Point A on a map to Point B.

You do this by constructing various contraptions — vehicles, really — that help the Piggies travel. Remember, pigs can’t actually fly, despite the information to the contrary.

As you travel through the map, you grab various collectibles (essentially the equivalent of eggs in Angry Birds) and are scored based on the three-star system.

The same things that made Angry Birds a huge success are present here in the Piggie version. You can complete levels relatively quickly, it isn’t all that hard to beat the levels, yet it’s still a mentally challenging game in terms of physics.