Gish is a platformer with a twist. You play a blob of tar named Gish (yes, I said a blob of tar) who is on a journey to find his girlfriend, Brea - who is not another blob of tar, but rather a human.

Using the complex, realistic physics engine, Gish must stick to walls, slide through cracks, topple boxes, and solve many other strange physics puzzles while battling enemies. Even jumping is very physics-heavy; Gish has to bounce up and down to gain momentum for a jump. The game includes three modes: Story, which is standard linear platforming, Collection, a sort of time attack mode, and Vs., where two Gishes fight to the death.

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Screenshots

Gish Windows First level is tutorial, no surprise here

Gish J2ME And there are lots of secrets to be found in the game.

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Squishy Gishy	Windows	krisko6 (829)

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Critic Reviews

Game Chronicles	Windows	Jul 27, 2004	9.5 out of 10	95
gotoAndPlay()	Windows	Jul 25, 2004	93 out of 100	93
Macworld	Macintosh	Oct 18, 2004		90
Games4Mac	Macintosh	2005	90 out of 100	90
GameZebo	Windows	Aug 04, 2010		90
Inside Mac Games (IMG)	Macintosh	Oct 15, 2004	8.75 out of 10	88
GameStar (Germany)	Windows	Aug, 2005	64 out of 100	64
Softpedia	Linux	Dec 29, 2011		60
GamePlasma	Windows	Jul 23, 2004	5 out of 10	50
GameCola.net	Windows	Nov 30, 2010	4 out of 10	40

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Trivia

Inspiration

Gish was envisioned as a play on the classic side-scrolling Mario games, both in level progression and story.

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Related Web Sites

GISH [gishgame.com] (Official Website)
Gish Post-Mortem (Gamasutra's feature about the game's production written by Alex Austin.)
Gish | The Mobile Game (official game website for the mobile version)
Gish (video game) - Wikipedia (article about the game in the open encyclopedia)