Though it's a very unfortunate name for a game, Balltoucher is a fun little quick Time Waster. The concept is painfully simple - you're a black square, and light and dark colored balls are flying at you from all sides. Dark balls are bad, and when one touches you the game is over. Light ones are good, and the more you touch, the more points you get. There are also gold balls that give you special powers like slow-motion, invincibility, or they can even make all balls light colored for a period of time.

Each game is very short, less than a minute. Maybe the games are so short for me because of my skill level, but I like it because you can play three or four times without making any sort of real time commitment.

I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.

In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.