''Fractal: Make Blooms Not War'' is a

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by Cipher Prime. The game involves pushing hexagonal fragments together to form large hexagons and chain reactions. ''Fractal'' was released by Cipher Prime via their website on May 26, 2010, for

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and Microsoft Windows.

Gameplay

''Fractals gameplay revolves around pushing hexagons into seven-hexagon clusters, or "blooms", which earn the player points. ''Fractal'' features three gameplay modes, campaign, arcade, and puzzle. In campaign mode, the player progresses by earning enough points to clear each level. Over the course of the thirty-level campaign, the player encounters different kinds of power-up hexagons with special abilities (hexagons that cause explosions, or that destroy all adjacent hexagons) that help the player earn points. In arcade mode, the player works toward setting a high score by surviving for as long as possible. In the fifty-level puzzle mode, the player is tasked with completing objectives in a limited number of moves. Each series of challenges in puzzle mode (

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, Menger, Sierpinski,

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, Mandelbrot, and Dragon) is named after a different

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set.

Reception

The game has a Metacritic score of 84% based on 4 critic reviews.

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