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Angry Birds spin-off Bad Piggies released for iOS and Android

September 27, 2012
Updated: July 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM

Bad Piggies, the new game from the creator of Angry Birds, has been released today for Android and iOS devices. The mechanics-based puzzle game casts the evil pigs from Angry Birds in the lead role for the first time – but is Bad Piggies any good"lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29122" title="Bad Piggies gameplay" src="https://articles-img.sftcdn.net/auto-mapping-folder/sites/3/2012/09/badpiggies.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="320" srcset="https://articles-img.sftcdn.net/auto-mapping-folder/sites/3/2012/09/badpiggies.jpg 480w, https://articles-img.sftcdn.net/auto-mapping-folder/sites/3/2012/09/badpiggies-120x80.jpg 120w, https://articles-img.sftcdn.net/auto-mapping-folder/sites/3/2012/09/badpiggies-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" />

Bad Piggies is a completely different challenge to Angry Birds. The hit-and-miss approach of the catapults has gone and instead Bad Piggies requires more mechanical thinking. This in turn makes the game less appealing for some. You can no longer just turn on the game and start wildly flinging your fingers around.

Bad Piggies is more of a labored process of working out what materials you have and how to join them together to deal with the obstacles facing you and collect all the stars. I would argue that the satisfaction you get out of Bad Piggies doesn’t warrant all this brain energy.

Read my review of Bad Piggies for iPhone, iPad, Android and Android tablets.

Have you played Bad Piggies yet? What do you think?