Mouse Required
Mouse Required
Find and free your cursor friends!
Music and SFX by Nexusnecromance
Made for Lowrezjam 2025
(Since this game uses mouselock, you might experience the cursor sliding without moving your mouse)
(Either going fullscreen, downloading the exe, or using the anti-sliding setting should help fix this)
Ironically, you can use the arrowkeys and z/x instead of the mouse.
I had to cut a lot of ideas for the game jam, but I hope to explore this idea again in the future!
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the game is fun
i rate 42/100
I’m repeatedly impressed with what people can do with PICO-8
Great game
Nice
That was really cool :)
I see I'm not alone in feeling the first major puzzle is harder than the rest of the game.
i loved the game, short and funny
how do i find the code on the first leftmost room
Made a video
Pretty dang good li'l game
the other mice drawing little doodles is a neat detail to me
God the invert controls mechanic was EVIL lmfao, very well made
IKR! That was PURE ragebait! My impatient arse couldn't... 😭😭
how do you even get past the first room? T.T
Go to the left, then click on the button 9 times.
Super well made!
Surprising from beginning to end! This is incredibly well done.
I loved that one moment where you had to go to settings
Didn't even know how to do the last puzzle so I just looked behind the scribbles and put in the code lol... the actual solution is pretty cool though.
a genius little game! i hope you make more like it!
so likw whats the code🌚
549
the first one is 5 because its the pattern you draw in the level before
Each digit of the code represents a solution to the three previous puzzles.
Did some art all over the place!
hi my name is jasper and i was wondering if games such as platformers do it well on this platform i am new in game development and was hoping to drop an game in about a year if anyone could help me out it would be very nice!
Not the answer you would like to hear, but you should make the games you want to make. If that game is a platformer, go for it! I don’t know if this would be your first game but if it is, I would suggest entering some game jams first. That way you can get a bit of a feeling of how it is to finish a game and gain some exposure (if that is something you would like of course) and feedback in the meantime. But to answer your question a little more specific, sure platformers can do well on itch.io. But then again, any game can do well if it’s fun and creative. Itch.io is just a platform after all and there are a lot of different types of people on here who play and make different types of games. I think you will always find an audience if you persist long enough, but should not necessarily be your end goal. Just have fun making games and just go for it!
What an intuitive and easy-to-play puzzle game! (The first key puzzle felt difficult when I first played it, but looking at it now, it’s much clearer.)
It was so much fun that new elements were added each time I unlocked a key! My friend’s mouse cursor!! ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ
Bug: im softlocked after pressing "reset char"
bruh im literally stuck on the fourth room with the keypad (the 3 digits in the last 3 rooms definitely do not help me either)
yeah, how are you supposed to figure out the code?
follow the order of the numbers in he first room (like you're writing out something), look for a number in the layout of the maze, and the last one is on the number display
i found it (i didnt take into account that the order of numbers in the room right before the keycode was in the shape of numbers that existed in the code). thx guys!
Hints are very vague, but they are in the rooms you were before
I just know that I had to brute force the first one, last 2 were easy
This screenshot tells how much I enjoyed this game
Long time since I was this fascinated by a videogame.
Fun! Clever!
It reminded me a little of Minishoot Adventures, in how it was a kinda explorey Zelda-like but with completely different moment to moment gameplay. And you’re a triangle.
Also…
Struggling with invert mode?
Try holding your mouse upside down :)this was so cool omg
Very nice little puzzles.
Well done!
This was adorable! I loved figuring it all out ♥
Wow, that was awesome
Absolutely delightful. When green was doing his thing, I felt the camaraderie and urgency of rescuing the others.
Would love to see this little group go on a larger adventure :)
Very cute short game! I'm ashamed i needed the hint for the first puzzle, but I'm glad I did so I could get through the rest. Very cute and fun!
Amazing little puzzle game, from the master of puzzles! Smart foreshadowing on a few rooms, and an absolutely nasty trick at the end, which will make you go “AHAAAAAAA” when you find that.
Graphics were simple, but cute and charming, I kinda wish we had more to do with the pencil and eraser.
Music and sfx are nice, that said, the repetitive nature of the sfx when the green clicks away at the 999 is too much for me.
Otherwise absolutely amazing entry!
this is perfect!
okay now THIS is an unique game, the game window is so adorable
nice game
really fun game! i love the puzzles
Definitely my favorite game from this edition of the JAM. A beautiful, precious, and well-made masterpiece. Hats off to you. Definitely first place.
Really neat and cute game! ❤️