Tumblebugs
Save your backyard buddies from rolling into the Black Bug Empire's underground lair. By launching colored bugs from your back with precise timing you can free more bugs with matching color, but you have to act fast and save them all before you run out of time.
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March 18, 2022
4 years and 137 days ago
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Very Positive125 reviews91.2%
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7 itemsAbout the Game
A lawn time ago, in a backyard far, far away...
Playing as the guardian bug Tumble, you must save your backyard buddies from rolling into the Black Bug Empire's underground lair. By launching colored bugs from your back with precise timing you can free more bugs with matching color, but you have to act fast and save them all before you run out of time.
Prepare to spend hours playing this addictive, best-selling match-three puzzle game. It’s a bug battle across 78 backyard levels. Do you have what it takes to be the hero?
With super smooth, physics-based gameplay
Key Features:
- Fast-paced, simple but highly addictive puzzler that is easy to learn, hard to master. Save all the bugs from captivity across a series of backyards in story mode.
- Use special power-ups like Rewind Bugs, Ballistic Bugs and Stop! Take advantage of bugs with special powers, including wild, star, blossom and color.
- Unlock time trials and replay to set a new best time!
- Remastered in HD with super-smooth physics-based gameplay.
Playing as the guardian bug Tumble, you must save your backyard buddies from rolling into the Black Bug Empire's underground lair. By launching colored bugs from your back with precise timing you can free more bugs with matching color, but you have to act fast and save them all before you run out of time.
Prepare to spend hours playing this addictive, best-selling match-three puzzle game. It’s a bug battle across 78 backyard levels. Do you have what it takes to be the hero?
With super smooth, physics-based gameplay
Key Features:
- Fast-paced, simple but highly addictive puzzler that is easy to learn, hard to master. Save all the bugs from captivity across a series of backyards in story mode.
- Use special power-ups like Rewind Bugs, Ballistic Bugs and Stop! Take advantage of bugs with special powers, including wild, star, blossom and color.
- Unlock time trials and replay to set a new best time!
- Remastered in HD with super-smooth physics-based gameplay.
