Torrefaction

Reflexive Arcade has a zillion really good, addictive little games.  I've been playing Big Kahuna Reef 2 for a year or so, so I decided to get a couple more and have been wasting loads of time with them.

In Tasty Planet, you are a bacterium designed to eat bathroom germs (the grey dude in the pic, above).  You can only eat things smaller than yourself; each thing you eat makes you bigger, meaning as you chow down you can eat more and more stuff, including enemies that hurt you when you're smaller.  You don't even have to click--just push the mouse.  Oh and your color changes to reflect whatever you've been eating. It's very cute.

I'm still in the Lab levels, but you eventually get too big, escape, start eating cars & stuff, and end up consuming the planet, apparently.  What's not to love about that?  Particuarly if you're dieting.  Speaking of which, did you know that 4 Burger King "cini-mini's" have 500 calories?  Five-effing-hundred.  For 4 miniature cinnamon rolls.  So, not having those today.  Oh, for comparison, a Cinnabon has...[looking up on google]...670!  HOLY CRAP!

Jeez. Ok, back on topic:  you can download and play each game for a total of an hour; then you have to buy if you want to keep on playing.  All the games I've tried are $20.  I like this scheme, because if a game is going to bore me, I'll know it within an hour; if it's not, I'll play it for at least 20 hours by the time I'm done with it.  Since the big quest games tend to cost $50 and provide about 50 hours of single-player play time, I figure a buck an hour is about the going rate for games...cheaper than a movie or a hardcover book.

EDITED to add:  Now I am in the lab dude's blood stream, eating his red blood cells...

...and then his white blood cells.  AWESOME!