The new Candy Crush?

Unless you live in the middle of a deserted forest with no internet, you’re bound to have heard of and probably been captivated by Candy Crush Saga at some point during 2013 (or, if you’re like our very own Emily Normington, you’ll still be playing it…)

But as times change, so do popular apps and the newest one to storm the app stores is Papa Pear Saga.

It is of course produced by King, but works very differently.

The aim of the game is to satisfy the needs of a set of animate paint pots at the bottom of the screen by filling them, you guessed it, with pears! (You probably didn’t guess it, unless you actually have pear loving paint pots in your garage).

Sound easy? Well, it kind of is. You just shoot the pears out of a cannon, destroying all the obstacles blocking the path between you and the buckets, scoring as many points as possible.

Ignoring the fact that shooting a pear out of a real cannon would probably destroy it, that they probably wouldn’t be appealing in to real paint pots in any way and that pears don’t actually wear hard-hats, the concept is pretty fun.

As you progress through the game, you unlock bonuses to make your life that bit easier. A personal highlight is the exploding pomegranates, they’re just so fruity and so dangerous at the same time.

One annoying thing carried over from Candy Crush is that you have to rely on Facebook Friends to give you new lives, so if you don’t have friends, or Facebook, or Facebook friends that play Papa Pear, then you’re going nowhere soon.

But we are enjoying the Spanishness of the title. How exotic, pears are so often associated with Spain, it makes so much sense…