No, really, that's what it's called:
I found it on F-Droid last night while seeing if anyone has made a version of Fruit Ninja that hasn't been thoroughly enshittified in the name of PROFIT$ yet.
And I was going to blog about something more serious today, except I cannot stop thinking about this game. I love this game, but not for the reasons you think.
Fruity Game is one of those "combine things to make larger things without blocking yourself with the larger things" games, similar to 2048. Actually, the closest thing I've seen so far is 2050, which is "2048 but circles" (the physics are wild):
In Fruity Game, you drop small fruits, which combine to make bigger fruits. Simple.
Except. Fruity Game affirms the art-impaired everywhere. For this, I love it. Fruity Game's developer, you are my hero.
I am severely art-impaired, for the simple reason that I do not practice. My drawing skills are nonexistent because I never draw things. Same with illustration or whatever else online or offline visual arts skills one might name. The closest I get to having visual arts skills is dance (which I was better at before the motorcycle accident turned me into a cyborg) and sewing (which I can do because my mother was an award-winning seamstress in her youth and also because Fuck the System, I'll Mend My Own Clothes).
Whoever designed Fruity Game has art skills on par with mine. Which is to say: TERRIBLE. Delightfully, adorably TERRIBLE.
The fruits are SO BAD. I'm not even entirely sure what kinds of fruit they're all supposed to be. The strawberry is pretty obvious. I think the smallest one is a cherry? There's a purple oval I have decided must be a grape, but it's an oval that is purple. Two strawberries make either a coconut or an astonished gibbon - I'm not sure which.
The artist knows how silly these look too, which is obvious because the fruit all has very silly faces. My favorite is the yellow oval, which was immediately recognizable as a lemon because it has the kind of face I would draw if handed the clue "the Earl of Lemongrab" in Pictionary while also I was drunk.
In each "round," the fruit drops out of a little cloud. The cloud makes faces when you move it around the screen. The faces are legit bad. Like the faces you tried to draw with a mouse in Appleworks in 1989 when you were the only person in the family who knew how to use a mouse BUT THAT DIDN'T MEAN YOU KNEW HOW TO USE A MOUSE.
That's it. There are no special levels or magic moments when the fruit stops looking incredibly weird. None I have found so far, at least. I could just be terrible at Fruity Game. It's a weird little game full of weird little fruit with doofy little faces, and it's the best thing I have seen all week.
All of which is to say: I love this game. Please, maker of Fruity Game, NEVER CHANGE THE GRAPHICS. I am obsessed with them. They make me so happy.
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