Girl Gamer

“Let’s do it!” your hamster exclaims as you load him into a cannon.

Hamster Cannon takes the quest for noms to a hilarious level as cute little rodents voluntarily launch themselves toward their favorite tasty treats. As you can imagine, this gets pretty darn entertaining.

There’s more than one way to eat a nom

These little buggers will do anything to get at those delicious, crunchy morsels. Since this is a physics-based game, you must plan your attack by bouncing hamsters off the sides of the cage and using different hamster hats to break through barriers. (Think of it like playing pool or bowling, only with much more entertaining projectiles.)

Example: Fire-head hamster destroys wooden barriers, while the one with the helmet takes out stone.

Using these hamsters in different orders can create different ways to achieve your goal. If you destroy all your barriers up front, you won’t have them to bounce off of later. Play around with different orders and directions to get things just right. You can replay a level as many times as you like, so if you are always missing that last nom, you can try try again!

The nom’s the limit

Noms are really valuable. Not only do they taste good, but they’re used in the hamster world as currency. Use them to buy spiffy new hats, cannons, batteries, etc. (Batteries launch your hamsters farther than the default setting. You can even earn noms by liking the developer on Facebook, following them on Twitter, etc. If you’re REALLY hardcore, you can buy noms, too for as little as $.99.

Good, furry fun

The sense of humor in Hamster Cannon is akin to what you’d find in Double Fine games; slightly twisted, but clean. Tim Schafer fans, maybe? Either way, the game is really fun to play and the sound effects alone have kept me giggling. The hamsters don’t get hurt, either so animal lovers need not worry.

Overall

At the time of this review, the game has only been out a couple days and after an update, the bugs seem to be ironed out. At 42.21MB, it’s a rather large file so make sure you have plenty of memory. It lags a bit on my phone, but then again most everything does, grr. I imagine it runs great on your fancy-pants hipster phones, lol.

Although I really get a kick out of the music and sound effects, you can turn them off if you’re going to play on the go. Using Feint, Hamster Cannon allows you to earn achievements and climb the leaderboards as well – adding a nice touch for you competitive gamers. The name of the game is “Hamster Cannon Free” so that indicates a paid version in the works. It’s definitely worth a play.