MouseCraft

A puzzle game where players must guide a group of mice to a piece of cheese; the game is available via PC (through Steam and Gog) and PlayStation platforms.

Overview

MouseCraft is a puzzle game developed and published by Crunching Koalas for the PC, with Curve Studios porting it to PlayStation platforms.

Gameplay

Dubbed by the developers themselves as "a cross between Tetris and Lemmings", the goal of the game is to aid 3 mice in getting their cheese. The player does so by placing Tetromino pieces, which the mice can climb onto and walk on top of. All of this is being watched in the background by a mad-scientist-looking cat.

The "test subjects" themselves move much in a Lemmings-like fashion: they walk straight until reaching a ledge they can't jump onto, at which point they turn around. They may climb one block up and fall three down. Later on more types of blocks are introduced, such as jelly blocks breaking the fall, crumbling blocks withstanding only as many as two walks across them or dynamite blocks exploding and destroying other blocks in a one-block radius.

System Requirements

PC

Minimum

  • OS: Windows XP SP2 or later
  • Processor: 1.6Ghz or Higher
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB shared or dedicated RAM (ATI or NVIDIA)
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Hard Drive: 700 MB available space

Recommended

  • OS: Windows XP SP2 or later
  • Processor: 1.6Ghz or Higher
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 512 MB shared or dedicated RAM (ATI or NVIDIA)
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Hard Drive: 1 GB available space

Mac

Minimum

  • OS: 10.6 Snow Leopard or later
  • Processor: Intel Mac
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB shared or dedicated RAM (ATI or NVIDIA)
  • Hard Drive: 700 MB available space

Recommended

  • OS: 10.6 Snow Leopard or later
  • Processor: Intel Mac
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 512 MB shared or dedicated RAM (ATI or NVIDIA)
  • Hard Drive: 1 GB available space

Linux

Minimum

  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit or Ubuntu 12.10 32-bit
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB shared or dedicated RAM (ATI or NVIDIA)
  • Hard Drive: 700 MB available space

Recommended

  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit or Ubuntu 12.10 32-bit
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 512 MB shared or dedicated RAM (ATI or NVIDIA)
  • Hard Drive: 1 GB available space