Why a new game by Eyezmaze is released, certain members of the heckerspray staff become so overwhelmed by emotion that they faint, vomit or – at the very least – far with unbridled joy.

Eyezmaze, you see, are the people that gave us Grow Cube and Grow Ornament, fiendish little puzzle games that were both effortlessly simple and mindblowing difficult. We loved both of them. But now comes Hatch, a new Eyezmaze game, and Hatch is a little different. Instead of trying to place items down in a certain order to complete a puzzle – like on Grow Cube – Hatch is more of a traditional arcadey-type game. This is how Hatch works. Food falls from the sky, and your little ball has to catch it in its mouth. But all different sorts of food falls, and you have to press different keys on your keyboard to get the hatch ball to change into the right colour to accept them. Hatch is difficult, certainly, but will you be able to get the same sense of relieved joy that you get from completing Grow Cube when you've finished Hatch? Time will tell.

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