Pudding Monsters

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Pudding Monsters
Developer(s) ZeptoLab
Publisher(s) ZeptoLab
QubicGames (Switch)
Platform(s) iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch
ReleaseiOS
December 19, 2012
Android
December 21, 2012
Switch
February 25, 2022
Genre(s) Puzzle video game
Mode(s) Single-player

Pudding Monsters is a puzzle video game developed by ZeptoLab for iOS and Android in 2012, and for Nintendo Switch in 2022. It focuses on live clumps of pudding working to avoid being eaten by combining themselves into a monster to scare humans who want to eat them.

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Reception

The Switch version received "generally favorable reviews", while the iOS version received above-average reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [1] [2]

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