[STEAM] One of strategy gaming's true oddballs returns in Creeper World IXE, which pits starships against oceans of wrathful gloop

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When I downloaded

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IXE's demo, I had it pegged as a bizarre original. It is, in fact, the latest in a series of real-time strategy games in which you position turrets and terraform maps to repel surging, simulated tides of purple liquid. This is a war between flesh and mineral, solidity and fluidity that

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. Alex Wiltshire (RPS in peace)

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- amongst other things, we learn that the original Creeper World was based on a "********" - and Sin has

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, the first 3D instalment.

What does Creeper World IXE bring to the party? Well, 1) it ain't 3D, and 2) it's billed as an exercise in "dominating" the titular Creeper, rather than keeping it at bay. For too long has this sloshing, coruscating hooligan been allowed to wash over and corrode our precious starports. We will take the ****** to it in the shape of an upgradeable 2D starfleet, equipped with lasers we can use to chisel away the geography and re-rout the flow of villainous Vimto.

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