Monkey Shines is an interestingly made physics based game containing various simple logic tasks which are supposed to cheer you up with jungle sounds and monkey escapades.

What is it all about? Using spacebar you control the orangutans movement to his destination, which is usually his bed made of leaves in one of the tree tops. Once Rin the monkey is in his bed and ready to go to sleep, that means that you have finished your task, finished that level and you are ready to go to the next one. If you press spcebar and you hold it, the monkey will catch the nearest branch and he will spin around. When you release the spacebar monkey will release that branch. That is the principle used to make the monkey move around the jungle. On some levels there will be obstacles like snakes and other characters, but basic rules of movement always stay the same.

The game has many issues and it looks like it was released too soon. If you lose a mouse focus on the screen, it is very hard to go back to the game and restart is inevitable. Movement animations are quite bad and often it is not all clear what the task is on some levels. Although we have only one control in the game (spacebar) it works very poorly, it is so bad that I think very few players will continue playing this game to the end. Despite the title, there is no way we can say that this game shines at all.