Leave it to video games to make molecular biology and human anatomy fun. Viriax, the new PC-only freeware offering from indie developer, is just as kooky as it is simple to play (Don't worry: It isn't the slightest bit educational). You're a tiny virus attempting to infect and hopefully fell your hos𒁃t human, but doing so isn't so easy. Each level consists of different body parts, with the lungs and intestines being your first points of entry. And unlike other shmups, learning the level layout is rather difficult because they're randomly generated here.

Complicating matters stillmore is how every move your virus makes takes away some of its health. That health can only be regenerated by coll💜ecting coins or strategically swimming ab꧟ove and bouncing off antibodies and scooping up their leavings. You might be thinking, "Ugh. Collecting coins? Swimming?" And we know, it sounds like one giant water level, but Variax is paced so excellently and the concept so straightforward that we found it more akin to Kid Icarus' flying levels than Mario's dreadful water levels.

. But first, get a taste of the music and the game in the trailer below, and then swipe the game .

April 21, 2011