Rollaround

History of Rollaround

In Rollaround you have to paint an exact number of bricks within a time limit, while avoiding enemies catching up with you and sending you into the endless abyss.

In Rollaround you'll roll through 20 levels, in a game that feels like a more cerebral version of Marble Madness. Each of the twenty levels has 9 screens in the form of squares, without scrolling through them as such.

At each level, you set a target number of crosses of each colour to collect, with less and less leeway as to how many of the different ones are required as the game progresses.

How to play Rollaround

There are pre-programmed moving enemies in each level to plan for, but the level blocks vary in many ways. There are holes in the levels, but they can be jumped over by pressing fire. You can turn smooth squares into crosses or holes, which also reverse the state of the crosses and holes respectively.

Screenshots of Rollaround

Rollaround review in Microhobby nº172

In each level there are nine different screens and up to a total of 100 squares, some of which must be painted.

So, at first glance, it may seem that the game is simple and that its development may not be very attractive, but this is not the case, "Rollaround" is an original mixture of arcade and strategy in which you will have to use your twenty-three senses if you want to overcome each of the stages.

It is devilishly addictive, and the graphics and movements are appropriate to the development, which is what matters.

And the only negative detail we could observe is the chaotic key layout that makes it very easy to have lost all your lives before you know where you are moving to.

Nevertheless, after the four hours it will take you to find out what it's all about, you may find great things to like about this board game.

Rollaround review in Microhobby nº172

• Originality: 80%
• Graphics: 70%
• Movement: 70%
• Sound: 50%
• Difficulty: 90%
• Addiction: 90%

Rollaround Credits

Programming and graphics: Mr Chip Software

Game cover