Review: Twisty Hollow for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

It’s time to serve your customers. What could they possibly want? Bacon, of course!

Twisty Hollow gives you three concentric circles with some icons. Line up the correct sequence of icons and the bacon gets made, the customer gets to eat the bacon, and, as in real life, everyone is happy.

Mmmmmmm, bacon…

So, they start adding things like fish and diamonds and sushi in later levels, but we’ll always have bacon. The goal is to make sure all of your customers get served. As the game progresses, customers may leave or even set a fire on a finished product slot if they do not get what they want quickly enough.

Gameplay is handled entirely via tap and swipe. The dial motion is very much like the selection wheel on the old click wheel iPod (may it rest in peace). The game sports some Saturday cartoon style graphics (the characters remind me a little bit of the Mii characters) and bouncy backing music. The controls are fairly easy to use but you need to be careful on the small iPhone scree or you may end up moving the wrong circle

Twisty Hollow is moderately fun and is a good enough occupier of idle time, but that’s about all. The “cute” graphics and relatively easy play will probably help it go over better with the young gamers.