Bugz Rush

A hungry frog sits in the middle of the garden. A chain of colorful bugs is marching along the path toward its fruit. You have one tool: a color-changing tongue.

Hit a run of three or more bugs matching your tongue color and they get eaten - the chain tears and slams back together. Hit anything else and a bug of your tongue's color is inserted where you struck. Every miss feeds the swarm.

That's the twist: a chain shooter where a bad shot doesn't just waste a turn, it makes the problem bigger.

What's in it

• 100 levels across 10 themed zones - Sunny Meadow, Berry Grove, Pond Shore, Mushroom Hollow, Sandy Dunes, Autumn Forest, Night Garden, Winter Pond, Volcano Ridge and the Royal Hive. Each zone has its own ground art, foliage palette and music.
• Five special bugs, each demanding a different answer - armored shells you have to crack before the bug can be matched at all, bombers that clear extra neighbors for you if you eat them properly and burst into three random bugs if you don't, rushers that stampede the entire chain forward when you annoy them, switchers that change color right as you line up the shot, and jumpers that relocate the moment you aim at them.
• Rocks and fire in the late levels, standing between you and the path. A rock swallows your shot. Fire swallows it and burns your tongue shut for three seconds while the chain keeps walking.
• Three boosters, bought with fruits you earn by playing - Slow drops the chain to 40% speed for five seconds, Rollback physically drives the whole chain backwards with its tail pouring back into the spawn hole, and Rainbow makes your next shot take the color of whatever it touches.
• Cascading combos - tear the chain and the separated halves race back together; if the junction lines up a new match it eats itself, at double score.
• A soundtrack that reacts - a music bed per zone, plus a danger layer that crossfades in as the bugs close on your fruit.
• Stars, fruits and zone mastery - 300 stars to collect, and a bonus for three-starring an entire zone.

Demo and full version

• Play the demo in your browser - free, right here on this page, no download and no purchase.
• Free Windows demo - the same opening stage as a standalone download.
• Full version, $3.99 - all 100 levels across all 10 zones, every special bug, every obstacle and every booster. One purchase, nothing else to buy.

Both demos cover the opening stage in Sunny Meadow; the remaining zones unlock with the full version.

Controls

• Mouse and keyboard - aim with the mouse, click to shoot, Space swaps your held color, 1/2/3 fire the boosters.
• Touch - tap to aim and shoot, tap the ammo chip to swap.
• Gamepad - full support with the correct PlayStation and Xbox button glyphs, and all eight actions rebindable in game.