Spiral Roll

Spiral Roll is a game developed by Sweeting and released by Voodoo for iOS and Android in 2020.

In this game, you control a shovel that must peel the ground to create a spiral that grows over time and launch it into various things like baskets and coins and to destroy walls to continue moving further in a level.

Why It Spirals For Disasters

 * 1) Right off the top of the bat, this game is just totally uninteresting, as the only controls you can perform are peeling the floor to make a wheel in a spiral shape by holding down the touch screen. After releasing the press, you will throw the spiral in a specific distance to collect coins, destroy walls and try to launch it at the highest distance possible at the end of a level to get a higher reward.
 * 2) Overall, the game has no challenge whatsoever. Breaking walls with spirals already sounds really easy to do so, and the saws will always be sliding on the ground and the metallic floors never move upwards, meaning that you simply don't have to press the touch screen in order to avoid them and not lose the level by touching them.
 * 3) Similar to other Voodoo games, you get a pop-up advertisement after finishing each level, which gets annoying really fast.
 * 4) Despite the stupid gameplay, the game still manages to appear often in some of the most annoying ads that you will ever see in your life. They try to make the game look very addictive, when in reality, it's only fun for a few minutes. The worst ones are those commentated by a girl with a high-pitched voice that says "like" and "oh my gosh" very often, only to make the viewer very annoyed by the distracting voice. (See video titled I Hate Spiral Roll Ads below.)
 * 5) Poor sound effects that can get a bit distracting the more the player hears them. For example, the shovel never makes any peeling sound besides those that resemble noises when you hit the top of a game console with your finger tip that get higher pitched the longer the spiral is being rolled for.
 * 6) Like most Voodoo games, the game has no music whatsoever.
 * 7) This game is laggy, sometimes the frame rate drops massively, and the game will continue to run while you’re watching an advertisement.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The design of the game looks quite interesting, so it’s fun to play during some spare time, but even then, that’s because you’re going to end up wasting your time, you would do anything for entertainment.
 * 2) It actually looks visually nice in a way. It's one of the few Voodoo games with properly textured graphics; water have textured waves that add a relaxing tone of the game (though you'd have to mute the game and then put on water sounds via certain music applications and chill while you play the game.)

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