The year 2023 was a bumper year for fans of Keita Takahashi's "Katamari. Katamari" is one of the most singular game series of all time, with the best recently released on Steam. Katamari" is a game in which you roll things as the "Prince of All Cosmos" under the watchful eye of your grumpy dad, the "King of All Cosmos," starting on a small scale of rolling paperclips, erasers, and fruit, and scaling up to cars, trees, and eventually entire cities. It starts small, with paper clips, erasers, and fruit. While it may sound a bit strange, it can only be described as a sincere and moving ode to the joy of play and the innocence of childhood.

This is a special game, and it's clear that someone at Google loves it as much as I do.

Google has built a mini game of catamaran into its omnipresent search engine. You can start the ball rolling on the search results page and gradually increase the size of the ball with text and buttons before pasting in images and other information. Once you start the ball rolling, the page goes blank and you cannot walk away unless everything becomes part of the ball.

To access this game, type "Katamari" into Google search. However, there is a colorful ball in the upper right corner that begins to wobble, asking you to click on it. Click and the game begins: use the arrow keys to guide the ball, and all of Google's offerings and widgets to magnify the ball.

"Katamari is a nostalgic game for many of us and has many fans," Google engineer Lucas Bullen told Kotaku. 'The mechanics of the well-known game, where items stick to a rolling katamari, are so fun and unique that we wanted to link it to our search page and give fans the opportunity to play with katamari outside of the game.'

According to Bullen, Google has other gaming Easter eggs that players can find, encouraging them to search for Star Fox and The Last of Us.

We Love Katamari Reroll+ Royal Reverie is the second in the series recently released on Steam and is my favorite (the first, Katamari Damacy, was released on PC in 2018)." Our own Wes Fenlon was honest: "Namco made several Katamari games after this one that did not involve the series' creator, Keita Takahashi, but this was definitely the peak.

"More mission variations were added, as well as other playable characters.

These games are fun, and a little homage to Google is a nice change of pace in the office. Plus, one can imagine the Prince rolling across the U.S. and eventually shlepping up the Googleplex to save us all from the inevitable near future where AI-generated websites destroy what little value is left in Google search.