In a year full of giant games, some little mice stand out

There was a lot of big This year games that felt consumed, such as Wild Hunter monster or Claire mysterious: Campaign 33. Maze mice It provides something different: a small experience of picking and playing that plays a set of ideas from some classics and adds smart development.

The game, from Luck is the owner The trampoline developer mixes items from Back Manand Survivors of vampiresAnd even classicism snake. As an adorable mouse, pixel, you can click on a maze to get a blue jewels guarded by cats. When you pass next to cats, they will wake up and start chasing you, and sometimes they create a long line of beginners. (Cute ghost cats will also appear and are uncomfortable in your way.) All procedures occur on one screen, so it is easy to know where everything is at any time.

When you get enough gemstones, you can choose from a selection of three energy operations. The promotions are often a bit silly, such as knitting that fly across the air to attack the cats that follow you, but as is the case with Survivors of vampiresIt is fun trying different capabilities to create interesting structures.

Maze miceThe most interesting feature is that time is moving only when it moves, like in Superhot. When you move forward, the enemy cats are directly behind you, but when you don’t move, they are also frozen. All your abilities are slowing down, and the time for that slowdown is also progressing when moving forward. All this means that instead of the increasing sense of exhaustion that you may get while avoiding ghosts Back Man Or fight the legions of monsters in Survivors of vampiresand Maze mice It gives you time to sit and think about where you want to go after that – even if you have 10 cats on your tail.

I really love how everything works. You still deal with many enemies, but instead of anxiety to have to catch them in actual time as in other games, all this is more prepared. The charming atmosphere and attractive music helps make the experience feel more welcoming than a stressful as well.

After running, you will cancel new promotions and personalities for future operation based on your degrees. I am a big fan of a mine weapon that explodes when I get the cats, you follow me to walk over it. My favorite personality so far is the mouse called jazz with sunglasses and the Genius – which begins with the Sachusvon weapon. What a wonderful little man!

Maze mice Early, so you should get more content below the line. There seems to be a generous amount to play with it already; Trampolineetales launched the game this month with 30 characters and 63 upgrade, which means that there is a lot for drilling in it. But the thing I love most is that I can play for a few minutes in one hour Torment The level and I feel that I have accomplished something – even when these annoying cats are finally attached.

_{MAZE MICE is now available in early access to the computer.}