For those of you that enjoyed SimTower but were annoyed by all those impatient people waiting for elevators, this little game might be the goo for you. From the brilliant developers at the Experimental Gameplay Project, Tower of Goo is a lone executable file (no installation) where you build a floppy Eiffel Tower of sorts out of balls of globby goo. With a charmingly minimal aesthetic and predictably wonky physics, Tower of Goo can pretend quite a challenge as you try to balance your tower to achieve new heights. Just watch out below. It’s a mess to clean up.

Geek Out Game: Tower of Goo

Every Wednesday, I profile a unique web game to distract you from real-life.

My absolute favorite time wasting site has to be the Experimental Gameplay Project, a site featuring a few hundred free and insanely inventive (often twisted) games. There’s the Tower of Goo, a Global Warming shooter, and Super Tummy Bubble!, just to summarize a few of my favorites. The site, started in 2005 by the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, requires contributed games be created by only one person in less than seven days with a common theme like gravity or swarms. Each game is usually a single .exe file or a small .zip. No installation needed. So download to your pleasure and enjoy.