Cat God vs Sun King (game)

I have been meaning to write about Cat God vs Sun King by nerdook for a while but I was busy playing games, er, doing research.

Update 10 August 2011:
Cat God vs Sun King took the Grand Prize in Kongregate's summer mobile game contest! Congrats, nerdook! Full results here.

As the Cat God in this game, the player's task is to stop the building of the temple by the Sun King. And being a God, the player has access to godly powers. Like the ability to rain fire from the sky.

Rain Fire!

Each power costs mana (indicated at the bottom of the screen) and has a cooldown (indicated beside the power icons at the top of the screen). This leads to lots of eyeball-exercise looking up and down the screen. Other than that, most players should be familiar with the mana and cooldown game mechanic.

The game ends once all the mortals are bullied away. However, this has to be done before the temple is completed, or the game will end in failure.

Briefing.

There are twelve stages in the game. In each stage, the player has a new type of mortal to deal with and a new power to bully those mortals with.

Making powers more exciting.

Each power can be leveled up by using them in order to increase their effectiveness. The third level of each power makes them better versions. It is interesting to level up powers just to try out their 'ultimate version'.

A screenshot of the menu interface always (well, usually) shows what the game offers.

Other than the game's twelve levels, there are achievements to complete. Most of the achievements involve bullying mortals in specific ways. Yes, 'bullying'. Because 'bullying' is a much nicer word to use than 'killing'.

Each achievement completed awards the player with a golden scarab. These scarabs are used to purchase items that each give a bonus or a new power to the player. Not to be confused with the golden scarab seen after completing a stage. That latter scarab is just for decoration.

Once the game is completed, a survival mode unlocks. In survival, there will be an endless number of mortals to bully until the temple is built. Ah, power-spamming fun!

"Argh, blade heading for us, blade heading for us!"

Cat God vs Sun King is a neat little game where the player gets to spam lots of powers to bully little mortals. It is short, so the player does not have to be concerned about getting too addicted and playing too much.

It seems that there is a mobile version of this game too, but I have not tried it.

"They're all dead and I'm all alone."