Not wanting to advocate casual drug use or anything, but Soul Bubbles is the kind of hallucinogenic good trip that’s rivaled only by Alice in Wonderland. Swimming in limpid pools of surreal soul catching is a steady and enjoyable delight, though occasionally ties itself in drunken knots with the mildly clumsy controls.

Two totem poles and a magic box, yesterday.

Stepping into the wistful shoes of an apprentice soul guardian, it’s your happy duty to guide the disembodied and lost souls of woodland animals to their next level of existence. These small collectives of lost spirits are too delicate to find their way through the labyrinthine caves to the portal that sends them to eternity, so a protective ’soul bubble’ (ah ha! Not just a clever name) surrounds them on the journey.

As a soul collector, it’s up to you to maintain the integrity of this protective bubble as you guide it through the maze system. It’s this transportation aspect that forms the essential crux of Soul Bubbles’ gameplay. By huffing and puffing, your strong-lunged afterlife fairy carefully blows the bubble through the undulating caves.

Guess the puzzle.

Drawing a line through the bubble using the stylus sets your character off puffing - the strength of his exhalation dependent of the length of the line drawn. Zipping around the screen to blow from different, rather acute angles guides the soul collective toward the portal at the far end of the level. Along the way, various obstacles block the bubble’s progress, such as doorways and narrowing of the passageways. To get through, it can be necessary to cut the bubble into several smaller vessels that can be blown through a narrow gap, then joined together again for safety on the other side.