Idiot Brain Evolution

Idiot Brain Evolution makes its joke up front and then asks the player to live inside it, which is a very different promise from a polished puzzle or a serious brain-training game. By our assessment, its main strength is the blunt comic premise: it signals absurdity clearly and leaves little doubt that the game wants silliness over dignity. The downside is that a joke-title kind of game can run out of air fast if the actual mechanics do not have enough bite to support the bit. In practice these games usually live or die on whether the loop is funny enough to repeat, because the idea itself is the hook. Compared with straight puzzle or quiz games, this sits closer to novelty entertainment than to mental exercise. Idiot Brain Evolution is for people who are happy with a goofy concept carrying the load, and it loses most of its shape once the gag stops being fresh.