Monster Bugs Eat People

Genre: Arcade / Party Game

Players: 1-4 Competitive (Local Split-Screen)

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Review:

Monster Bugs Eat People is an Arcade-style Party Game where players play as giant monstrous worms rampaging across the game’s levels devouring various parts of the environment, as well as each other.

Visually, this game mostly seems really generic and unimpressive, and it’s often difficult to tell what it is you’re even looking at. Is that yellow circle a silo? A hay stack? At the very least the odd worms the player controls look fantastic, if a bit simple. Oh, and the music is just… odd. It’s this energetic brassy music that feels like it would be better suited to a spy spoof than a sci-fi/horror send-up like this.

In terms of gameplay… I have to be honest, I was delightfully surprised by this game. The core concept here is pretty basic, but the game finds ways to add nuance – the different colored worms each eat a different part of the environment based on their color, but all of them can eat segments of the other worms that are smaller than their head. Doing so adds segments to your body, which makes you bigger and stronger, but it also makes your elongated body harder to defend.

What’s more, players have recharging special moves – they can get a temporary boost to catch up to prey or evade a predator, and they can spit acid to paralyze another worm.

All of these mechanics combine into a fairly fun cat-and-mouse game that’s pretty fun, though there are issues. For starters, the game’s single-player mode is just an introduction to the game’s small smattering of game modes, nothing more. The focus here seems to be on multiplayer, which is fine, except players have little control over the game’s multiplayer options, and there’s a huge lack of content here that really limits how much players will be able to get out of this game.

Having said all of that… we’re talking about a $2 game here, and for $2 (or less if you get it on sale), there’s a decent competitive party game in Monster Bugs Eat People. I wish this game had more options, more content, and some sort of single-player campaign. I wish everything about the presentation (save for the bugs themselves) got an overhaul. However, for a $2 price tag, this game provides some decent fun and should be worth a look if you’re wanting to add a cheap Party Game to your collection.

tl;dr – Monster Bugs Eat People is an Arcade-style Party game where you play as giant segmented worms eating different parts of the environment, as well as each other. The game has a terrible lack of content and options, and the presentation is pretty bad as well, but there’s some surprising nuance in the gameplay, and for $2 this can be a fun little Party game that’s worth the price tag.

Grade: C+

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