If you’re looking for fun puzzle action with a twist, then Tiki Towers is the perfect game for your Nokia Lumia 800. With its easy to grasp gameplay, challenging difficulty and great cartoony graphics, it reels you in quickly and then keeps you glued to your smartphone, as you play through its many addictive levels.

The game kicks off with a plane dropping boxes of monkeys over a cluster of islands and then you’re quickly set your objective – set the monkeys free and guide them safely to the end of each level, by building bamboo scaffolding – the titular towers - which they can climb and swing from, to get to their goal.

Building a tower is easy. You have a set amount of bamboo poles per level and you just tap and drag your finger where you want them to go. As you do so, a blueprint appears, showing you how your structure will look and once you’re happy with the result you remove your finger to put the pole in place.

The user interface of Tiki Towers is incredibly simple and lets you get on with your game without delay. A bar at the top left shows how much bamboo you have left, a clapper-board at the bottom left lets you free your monkeys, and an icon at the top right lets you toggle between Build and Eraser Modes.

As you’d expect, Build Mode is your main option and lets you construct your towers with a tap and drag of your finger. Anytime you mess up, though, the Eraser Mode is your tool of choice, as it lets you remove bamboo poles with a quick tap and then puts them back into your tool box, ready for you to re-use.

But while the actual building of your towers is easy, planning their design is anything but. With a range of drops and obstacles to navigate, not to mention your limited supply of bamboo, you must carefully work out exactly how you’re going to build your tower before you start putting your finger on the screen.

And as if working out how to navigate the various obstacles weren’t enough of a challenge, you have another concern to contend with – the fat monkeys, themselves. If you don’t build your towers strongly enough, as soon as too many simians set foot on them, they’ll collapse, leaving you back at square one.

Because of this, each level of Tiki Towers can be broken down into two sections – planning your structure and building it. Once your tower is built, you then tap your monkey’s container to set them free and sit back and watch as your plan either comes together perfectly, or falls like a house of cards before your eyes.

And getting your monkeys to their goal is only one part of the game. You’ll also find bananas scattered throughout the level, which need to be collected if you’re to achieve a perfect score. Adding yet another planning decision to the mix, you must think hard if you’re to snag every banana along the way.

Despite its fantastic simplicity and addictive yet taxing gameplay, Tiki Towers is not without its flaws, though. The main issue we had was that the drag-and-drop control of your bamboo poles means that your finger often gets in the way when you’re trying to see the blueprint that shows you what you have built.

To remedy this, you can angle the screen or your hand to get a more comfortable viewing angle, but in practice it becomes a bit of a chore and we found we were often placing bamboo in the wrong places and having to resort to using the Eraser Mode a little more often than we’d have liked.

With that said, though, this is one tiny flaw in an otherwise fantastic game. With its colourful graphics, great sound effects, easy interface and mind-boggling gameplay, Tiki Towers is up there with the very best smartphone games and deserves a place on every Nokia Lumia 800.

Tiki Towers is available now on the Windows Phone Marketplace for just £2.29.

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