A tower defense-like game where you play as a race of animate tongs who live in a kitchen, but it's being invaded by the attacking race of holed ladles and the tongs need to defend it to keep their home. The player has access to their tong defenders at any given time, to drag them to a different position, change direction, and so on. The player also has time at the start to drag furniture and objects around to make it harder for the ladles to reach and attack the tongs, but different objects weigh differently so dragging a chair fifty centimeters would take the same time as making a little barricade out of empty cartons, for example. The player can still do this at any time, but directing the tongs is far more time-efficient so it's not ideal once an attack has started.

The ladles approach from any side of the kitchen that's left open, which is inevitably at least a couple of sides, or one really big gap, or lots of little chokepoints. The ladles have holes in them, and to attack them you deploy boxes of pellets around the kitchen next to tongs. There are different sized pellets, and the ladles have different sized holes in their faces, so smaller pellets have more of a chance of hitting ladles with finer holes and larger pellets are ideal for taking down ladles with big holes that might cause smaller pellets to miss, but smaller pellets are more common. Hitting a ladle with a pellet will knock it back or down depending on the size, and if the pellet is just the right size that it gets stuck in one of the holes they'll be slowed down by each pellet until they fall over.

The pellets are limited, and can be bought with credits given at the start of the game and awarded when a ladle is downed. They can also be empowered with special effects at the cost of credits - pellets that split into smaller pellets, pellets that coalesce into larger pellets midflight, pellets that explode for splash impact, pellets that launch like a mortar and come down delayed, but powerful, and even pellets that temporarily freeze and warp the struck ladle to an alternate dimension for a while.

If the ladles get close to the tongs, they will start whacking them with their ladle heads. Do not let this happen! The tongs are valuable and cannot be replaced. The game ends when either the ladles run out of reinforcements, or the player runs out of tongs.

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