Other levels involve playing the waiting game, as you watch larger globs clear the way for you in their own sweet time. Some levels are more complex, where you have to sacrifice a little mass in order to shrink and squeeze through smaller spaces. It challenging and it feels incredibly rewarding to maneuver around, dodging the larger ones, then absorbing them when you're larger. For instance, there are enemy AI controlled motes that that try to grow larger than you are and absorb you. The difficulty of the levels scale when more elements are added to the mix. However, in levels that are more perilous than calm, the music tends to seem out of place. The mellow, slow-paced electronic music by various artists adds to the decently high production values, and the over-all calming and 'trippy' effect of the game. The game plays with a color palette that's high in contrast - from the black background, to the bright purple, blue and red of the globs around you. The game's style is similar to the likes of flow - minimalistic, but stylish and sharp. So you've got to try and absorb as much mass, while moving as little as possible to gain maximum benefits. For instance, if you see a mote that's just a little smaller than you and far away, it may take quite a bit of your own mass to propel yourself to the other mote, which could end up making you smaller than the glob of mass, making your journey to the other side of the screen pointless. Since your goal usually is to grow, there's strategy involved in moving in the right direction. To move, the mote has to expunge small bubbles of mass, making it shrink in size.

The game takes place in a void, where there's no motion.

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