One of the things that COVID has cruelly taken away from us is our choice — nay, our right — to be able to lick everything in sight. Apparently that's "unhygienic" and "not a great idea in general" now. How we miss the old days of lathering our saliva indiscriminately on lampposts and shop windows. Sigh.

Solo developer Brute Force has spent three years working on Crumble, a platformer that's sort of like Spider-Man if his web-slinging was replaced by a very long mouth tentacle, combined with Sonic the Hedgehog but with no feet, arms, or torso. If that sounds like a strange-yet-enticing proposition, then you might want to give this game a lick.

Crumble is out now on the Nintendo Switch eShop for $14.99, with a launch discount bringing it down to $11.99 until the 10th January.