In Cute Munchies you start off as a cute but hungry rabbit, munching its way through grass tiles as it closes in on its favourite snack : carrots! You can choose to swipe left/right/up/down and the cute little fella will hop and munch his way through till it meets a boulder or the edge of the puzzle, stopping its chomping spree. There will be many times where your over eager munching accidentally isolates you from the other carrots on the map. Fret not, restarting the puzzle comes at no cost and you can re-chomp your way across the puzzle.
Yummy carrots!
Get all the carrots!
When you begin a puzzle, your rabbit spawns on a predetermined tile, with yummy carrots and tricky boulders haphazardly but strategically scattered. Your goal is to munch your path to all the carrots without getting trapped. At first glance, the cartoon-like graphics fool you into thinking you’ve got it all figured out. When boulders trap you or you’ve eaten away your only path to your next carrot, you start to realize there is more strategy involved than meets the eye. Glowering at the remaining carrots, you vow to consume them all in your next try.
So many puzzles to unlock!
New features when you unlock new chapters
The game currently has 16 chapters to unlock, each filled with approximately 10 – 12 levels. Each chapter unveils a unique feature to make puzzles even more challenging. For example, Chapter 2 introduces steel tiles that can’t be chomped through while Chapter 3 inserts burrows that the rabbit can fall into, ending the round early. If you’re ever stuck on a particular puzzle, two free hints will be available to assist you in solving the puzzle, further satisfying the perfectionist in you. The other option is to backtrack your previous move but you’ll have to pay using in-game currency, gold, which is a bummer but not a deal-breaker.
Community created puzzles are really challenging!
Play other user-created puzzles or create your own!
If you’ve finish all official chapters and are looking for a challenge, head over to the online level feature that randomly picks from community created puzzles for you to solve. Fair warning, those puzzles are not a walk in the park, the people behind them are hell bent on exercising your brain muscles. There’ll be all kinds of traps on the puzzle and you’ll leave with satisfaction solving it or crying from the sheer torture at being outsmarted by tiny little tiles. You can also try your hand at creating puzzles for others to solve in the build level feature found in the menu.
Unlockables like new characters are available and have really cute names like Popo, Nala and Ricco! Although the logo of the game reveals certain characters, you’ll be tempted to shell out some gold to see the character designs behind the names.
Overall, Cute Munchies is an addictive but deceitfully strategic game that beginners with no experience can pick up easily.
Tips to get you started in Cute Munchies :
- Log in each day to claim your daily gold!
- Make use of hints when you’re stuck on a level.
- Try to ‘path’ your route to carrots before moving your character.
- Make full use of boulders and lack of tiles to change direction.
TL;DR
- Swipe left/right/up/down and your character will eat the path they travel on. Be cautious, it’s easy to cut off a path you intended to travel on.
- Plan your paths to carrots before moving your character.
- The undo move costs gold, restarting the stage could be a better option.
- If you get tired of adventure mode, try the online level feature and solve other community contributed puzzles.
Cute Munchies is available on Google Play and the App Store
Source for Images: In-game screenshots