Om Nom: Run

Genre: Auto-Runner

Players: 1-8 Competitive (Local, Local Split-Screen), Online Leaderboards

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Review:

(Note: This game is included in Best Mobile Games 5-in-1, along with Dig Deep, Pudding Monsters, Run Sausage Run!, and Sausage Wars.)

Om Nom: Run, released in 2020 on mobile devices and ported to Nintendo Switch in 2021, is a behind-the-character Auto-Runner starring Om Nom, the cute little green creature from the Cut the Rope series, which dates all the way back to 2010.

Om Nom: Run features a pretty decent presentation, with colorful cartoony 3D visuals with fluid framerates, and a decent amount of variety for this sort of game, with your character capable of seamlessly ducking into underground tunnels, warping to other locales, or jumping up into space for a brief free-fall. This is joined by extremely repetitive whimsical music that you’ll tire of pretty quickly.

For the gameplay, there’s not too much different going on here compared to other games in the genre like Go! Fish Go!, with players moving between three lanes, trying to avoid obstacles, and either ducking or jumping based on the obstacles they encounter. This game does try to add in more variety in obstacles than you tend to find in games in the genre, and there are a few temporary power-ups, but on the other side of things the controls feel overly-sensitive, with jumps terminating immediately if you accidentally even twitch in the direction of the down button.

I should note that this game has a few different game modes, including an endless mode and a goal-based mode, as well as a few different multiplayer modes. But in the end it’s all still much the same sort of gameplay.

In the end, there’s nothing especially wrong with Om Nom: Run. Apart from the minor control issues this game works well enough for its genre and is fairly well polished, but it doesn’t really do anything extraordinary to break free from its genre either. If you’re looking for a relatively inexpensive Auto-Runner to add to your Nintendo Switch library, you’ll probably be satisfied with this, but you’re unlikely to be delightfully surprised by it in any way.

tl;dr – Om Nom: Run is a behind-the-character Auto-Runner starring the little green creature from the Cut the Rope series. As games in this genre go, this game works well enough and is reasonably polished, but it doesn’t really do anything noteworthy to set itself apart. If you’re looking for an Auto-Runner you’ll probably be satisfied with this, but I doubt you’ll be ecstatic about it.

Grade: C+

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