Gruntz

Take control of the Gruntz, a lovable and annoying batch of creatures trying to find their way home. After fleeing through a wormhole to avoid an attack by their evil cousins, the Disgruntled, they are stranged in a strange world and have to fight their way back home. The game is half-puzzle, half-strategy. Your Gruntz move around the map collecting items, activating switches and killing Disgruntledz.

Released: 28 February 1999
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Puzzle Strategy
Developers: Monolith Productions
Publishers: Monolith Productions
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Comedy
Country: United States
Age ratings: CLASS_IND 12 ESRB E

About

Gruntz is a puzzle/strategy game for PC, developed and published in February 1999 by Monolith Productions. It is packaged with a level editor and can be played in single and multiplayer modes.

The game received mostly average to very positive reviews from critics.

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Gameplay

The player controls a number of "Gruntz", diminutive, goblinoid creatures made of baked clay ("goo"), via the mouse. The controls are those of a typical real-time strategy game: commands are issued to Gruntz via first selecting them and then either right-clicking (causing them to move or attack) or left-clicking (for special actions such as laying bombs or digging holes).

Tools are to be picked up by Gruntz to use in battle or for puzzle solving purposes. Each tool does a certain amount of damage. The weakest tool is nothing at all, also called barehands. There are several ways of getting a barehand Grunt, which include freshly created Gruntz, or a Boomerang Grunt that forgot to catch the boomerang.