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Remember the first time you played Canabalt and just couldn't stop? Or, maybe, the first time you got your paws on one of those one-button games and continuously bashed your head against them until you got it right? Edmus reminds me of those days. It also kinda plays something like that. Except, instead of blocky adventurers and oddly graceful sprites, you have black, cyclopean monsters that verge on the edge of cute.

Termed a 'one-button MMO', Edmus delivers pretty much what it promises. You will only ever need to use one button and there's a sizable crowd that will join your every, inevitably ill-fated run. Simple as that might sound, there's something sneakily addictive about the game. When you die, Edmus will cheerfully proclaim how many players you advanced past and how close you were to first place, something that will, at least once or twice, trigger that need to try again.

Edmus lacks any significant amount of depth but that's not really a problem because sometimes, we just need mindless fun. If you're in the mood for something simple and mind-numbing, you might want to look up Edmus here.