Metascore
88

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Boomtown
    90
    Armadillo Run is one of the best PC games I've played in a long time.
  2. Armadillo Run is more charming and a better puzzle game than "Pontifex," but it doesn't quite recapture that same magic. Even though it's a very different style, the same rules applied and the novelty of the physics has worn off a bit. Quite frankly however, when those are the biggest complaints you can lay at a title's feet, you know you're dealing with a special product.
  3. PC Format
    89
    Engrossing - if you enjoy building things, this is a must. [Sept 2006, p.104]
  4. PC Gamer UK
    88
    It's a game that's precisely as ambitious as it needs to be. No plot. No anti-aliasing. No in-store cardboard standee. Just you, a physics engine and an armadillo. [Sept 2006, p.96]
  5. 100
    This brilliant physics-based puzzle game has the power to turn even the most ardent science hater into a budding Brunel, Eiffel, or Dyson. However addicted you are to slaughter or strategising AR will seduce you, I guarantee it.
  6. PC Gamer
    82
    You're limited by a strict materials budget on each puzzle, but the solution is limited only by your imagination, your passion for tinkering, testing, and rejiggering, as well as your tolerance for roughhousing an innocent armadillo. [Nov. 2006, p.120]
  7. The game does a wonderful job of showing how cool physics is, especially with the more elaborate puzzles, and it’s fun to see the marvelously ingenious solutions that players upload to the game’s Web site.

Awards & Rankings

User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 32 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 32
  2. Negative: 5 out of 32
  1. Sep 29, 2017
    7
    It's extremely subjective if you will like it. It does what it does well, it simulates actual physics with a relatively good toolset, but ifIt's extremely subjective if you will like it. It does what it does well, it simulates actual physics with a relatively good toolset, but if you are not into that kind of thing you might absolutely hate it at least after a few levels. Since I got bored of it within a few levels I'll give it a 7, but your mileage may vary, it may be a 1/10 to you, it may be a 10. Full Review »
  2. SimonB.
    Jan 7, 2008
    10
    Armadillo run is best physics game i have ever seen.
  3. YasharZ.
    Oct 15, 2006
    10
    Well, the best casual game I've seen. Superb levels, graphics and puzzles. A good level editor, great community and tons of additional Well, the best casual game I've seen. Superb levels, graphics and puzzles. A good level editor, great community and tons of additional levels and bonus stuff. GET IT! Full Review »