App of the Week: Cthulhu Virtual Pet
Cthulhu Virtual Pet Publisher: NeuroCreativa Platform: Android Price: Free! Do you love Cthulhu? Do you love Tomagotchi? Oh boy, do I have a treat for you! Cthulhu Virtual Pet does exactly what you think it would. It allows you to raise your own adorable eldritch horror through means all too familiar to children of the 90's. The idea is to raise a happy and healthy Old One through regular baths (despite living in the ocean), feeding him all manners of organisms, and by plaguing humanity with the priest of R'yleh. To assist with this are four meters that must be kept up: food, sleep, health, and happiness. There are a variety of activities to increase each. Aside from the game itself, there are several mini-games available. They range from a Flappy Bird knockoff to a bridge builder and several others based on simple tapping. Unlike the main game, these mini-games are frustratingly difficult. CVP is a very slow moving game. ...