Minotaur China Shop is an absolute scream.  As the name implies, you play as a Minotaur that owns a China Shop in ancient times – you’re big, move awkwardly and become enraged if you break too much stuff.  The game takes the popular Time-Management genre and infuses it with some much needed physics and violence.  As the owner of a China Shop, you must fetch the correct item for each customer.  The quicker you deliver the item, the more cash you make.  Of course knocking over and breaking china costs you money and angers you. Break too much and your get enraged.  Lucky for you, the Minotaur’s shop has Rage Insurance so everything that you break during this period earns you positive cash.  What makes Minotaur China Shop great, is that it’s like 2 games in 1. There is a legitimate time-management game here; there just also happens to be an equally fun violent destruction game as well.  Personally, my strategy in the game is to play 1-2 rounds of time-management to build up my cash so that I can maximize my inventory, moves, and insurance for some great destructive payouts.  The Minotaur’s angry noises are pretty funny and build to the real payoff of this game which is the enraged bashing, stomping, and charging of the Minotaur.  The game is quick, simple and easy fun and while the Minotaur moves a little clunky – it serves the game well by creating accidents.  For me, Minotaur China Shop shines as Blurst’s best title.

Score: 9.5/10 – Rank: 1st