Actual gameplay
Incremental
Seventeen worlds
Three prestige layers
Popocalypse
Pop one kernel, set off the whole pan
A skillet on a blue gas ring, under one bulb, with a single kernel starting to wobble. Tap it. Every pop heats the kernels around it, so one tap can set off a chain that races across the pan, each pop a little higher than the last. The popcorn arcs over the rim and piles up, and when the bowl is full the camera pulls back to something bigger: a tub, a bathtub, a kitchen, a cinema, a stadium, a city, and on out past the planets.
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How to play
- 1Tap where the kernels glow. Each pop heats its neighbours, and the chain pays a bonus when it ends. Hold anywhere to keep the heat on.
- 2Buy stoves so the pan pops on its own, even while you are away. The card ringed in lights is always the best buy.
- 3Fill the vessel, break the Kettle Kernel, and tap the ticket to pull back to the next world.
What's in it
- Chain reactions you can see and hear: every pop heats the pan around it and climbs a note higher
- Seventeen worlds, from a kitchen bowl to the whole universe, each with its own boss kernel to break
- Fourteen stoves, from a tea light to The Big Burner, that change as you collect them
- Golden Kernels, Duds, Heat Waves, Rush Orders, a critic, and stored trailers you fire when you like
- Twelve seasonings that colour the popcorn and change the rules
- Sequels, Reboots and the Big Pop: three ways to start over stronger, each with new rules to pick