Recommended for ages 10 and up
Mercury Hg is a completely innocent puzzle game, with no questionable content what-so-ever. There's no violence, sex or anything else you may not want your child seeing - although they may have an uncontrollable urge to start ending every word in "ium".
Mercury Hg is essentially a puzzle game, and has more than a passing resemblance to those tilty get-the-little-balls-in-the-holes toys you get in Christmas crackers.The main objective in Mercury Hg is to move your little blob of mercury from one end of a level to another by tilting the floor it stands on rather than by moving the blob directly. You'll need to navigate your way past holes in the floor, over ramps, avoid getting pushed off the edge by magnets and make clever use of colour changers – including mixing colours up – to make it to the end successfully. As such, it's probably quite a good game for testing and improving your hand-eye co-ordination – throw in the puzzles, where you have to think about how best to get past the obstacles and finish the levels, and you've got quite a good mental workout, but in a different way to Brain Training.
But the game does require precision and proficiency with an analogue stick – if you tilt too much then your blob will move too fast and just fly off the platforms, and some of the later levels are rather tricky. As such, it's probably best relegated to the older kids, as they're more likely to have the required hand-eye co-ordination.
Mercury Hg is an entirely single player game, and as such has no multiplayer modes.
