Super Penguins is an action/arcade-y platform jumper made by the London-based game studio Supersolid.  The game plays similar to other games in the genre, like Temple Run. Only instead of having an Indiana Jones-esque theme, you play as a cutesy penguin collecting fish and rescuing other penguins who have been taken captive by evil octopuses.

The game is a very fun time killer—like most Android/iOS games tend to be. The graphics are simple yet cute and well suited for the game’s premise. The controls are simple as well: tilt your device left or right to move and tap the screen to jump. You maneuver like this to collect fish “coins,” rescue penguins for power ups, and avoid gaps, stones, octopuses, and falling ice. An interesting feature is the ability to spin logs you run on/in in order to avoid running into obstacles protruding from the log. The game itself is free, but in order to unlock a lot of the extras you need to spend the fish that you collect—or you can buy fish from the in-game store. In the store you also can buy different characters to play (which are for cosmetic purposes only) and boost items that help you in the game: extra lives, curb falling icicles, etc. You can also spend your fish points on permanent upgrades. One being the ability to have different colored fish appear after a certain distanced traveled which are worth more points than regular fish.

Over all the game is a fun, quick play, and free, so you can’t really go wrong with the entry price. The only really glaring downside is that it crashed almost every time I tried to use the store feature (I’m on an HTC Thunderbolt), which is kind of a big issue—especially if you are playing on your phone (which I was). It’s not very nice when you have to take your battery out and restart your phone from just trying to waste some time playing a game. If Supersolid can fix this issue, they would have a really fun game on their hands. But if you can look past the crashing, and you enjoy your jumper games, you should definitely try Super Penguins out.