Alien Slime

Why We Picked Alien Slime

Alien Slime is short by construction: steering with the arrow keys until it stops working, then start again. It asks for timing more than precision: steering with the arrow keys, again, slightly later. Shallow the way a good joke is shallow: it lands, and then it is over. It has drawn 144 plays without a story, a save file, or a reason beyond the next number. For reference: 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, and 479 of 500 on the arcade shelf.

How to Play

Three things decide whether a run here goes well:

• Directional keys only, which keeps the hand in one place.
• There is no ending to reach; the run simply stops, and then it starts again.
• Play the first attempt as a scouting run and let the pattern show itself.

Editor’s Note

The limit worth knowing: little persists, so a great run leaves no record beyond the number. Fullscreen is worth using here more than anywhere else on the site, since the play area is the whole point.

Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.