Eat the Moon

by orangeoceans

co-authored: @peachee-lychee

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.27

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.27

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.40

play on itch.io

some mice have discovered that the moon is made of cheese. help them expand, infiltrate human society, and reach the moon!

#### this strategy game has two levels:

1. house: expand in population and social complexity, while avoiding outstripping the cheese supply or alerting humans to your presence. once a critical threshold is hit, the mice will take over the house and set their sights on the rest of the city.
2. city: send mouse spies all over town, smuggling cheese from factories, spreading propaganda, and manipulating municipal politics. take advantage of human technology and send a rocket to the moon!

#### features

- click on the map to show details for each region.
- perform actions in each region to gain resources.
- launch expeditions to colonize new rooms.
- avoid extermination by keeping a low profile.
- enact social advancements to gain new abilities and follow the narrative.
- manipulate city hall to implement pro-mouse policies.

Tags: #clicker, #cute, #funny

Genres: simulation, strategy

Tools: Godot

Comments18

Maïssa9 Oct 2024, 07:02

Really fun and cute game overall, I had some bugs on the watching mouse mini game but overall it was okay !

TheFruckets9 Oct 2024, 07:04

The game is really cool and I love the concept of it. There are a few bugs with the suspicion level maxes out when the event for it pops up if you dont catch it correctly as it goes to 7 left the whole game freezes. The mouse on the screen also moves really fast and for someone with slow reactions would struggle. I enjoyed how the game was and would love to see further development. Well done peachee-lychee and orangeoceans

Acerohode9 Oct 2024, 10:31

Absolutely lovely clicker game, a couple bugs but concept itself is solid. Great prototype!

kscerri9 Oct 2024, 10:39

Cool game, I enjoyed the gameloop though I'd have preferred if it was a bit shorter in between stages, or if there was a bit more automation. There was also a few bugs I came across that froze the game, such as in the exterminator sequence.

orangeoceansauthor9 Oct 2024, 10:58

@maissa @thefruckets @acerohode @kscerri
Thanks for reporting the exterminator minigame bug. Unfortunately we can't reproduce it, as it seems to work fine on our end :(
We've decided to disable the minigame for now in favor of just a flat -50% population penalty.

FrozenDude9 Oct 2024, 11:13

I had a lot of fun playing the game. The only issue I faced was that the button to add 10 agents to the office park didn't seen to work.

ping789 Oct 2024, 12:23

Cool and fun game! I enjoyed the concept and gameplay, overall it's a great entry and I'd love to see further development! Also my game is kinda what happens if the exterminator was 100% efficient.

LyaMgtt9 Oct 2024, 13:01

I was worried about all the info I would have to understand and manage, but everything is well displayed and self explanatory, love the game concept as well, well done !!

fusionnist10 Oct 2024, 16:03

A clicker game, hooray! This is simply adorable, I loved everything about the presentation of the game! Got my army of mice on the moon, but with those numbers I doubt it lasts very long... ;)
Great job!

MABIRUS10 Oct 2024, 17:04

A cute game about little mice, although there are very few sounds and music.

Kerdelos10 Oct 2024, 20:49

I'm amazed that such a complex game could be managed in 72 by 2 people, congrats !

Although it was a bit hard to understand everything at first (lots of text to read) It did hook me until I could sent my little mouse society to space, yay ! Too bad it wasn't cheese though.

I felt that at some times the balancing was a bit off. Like at the beggining of level 2 were my supply of cheese would dramatically drop because of the sheer quantity of mice I had. And so I had to wait for some of them to do in order to produce enough cheese to buy a factory.

The writing made me smile and there's a good sense of progression in the game although it could be a little bit faster at some points.

All in all it's really a great job !

Martingonn11 Oct 2024, 04:53

Very fun! I love games where your minions collect resources! I did not know how to colonize other rooms though.

orangeoceansauthor11 Oct 2024, 08:36

@martingonn Thanks! You can colonize other rooms by selecting the "Launch Expedition" option in the actions panel, then clicking on an uncolonized room. If "Launch Expedition" is grayed out, you need to unlock it via the "Infinity and Beyond" social advancement.

oliver_day11 Oct 2024, 11:50

It was a bit difficult to understand where I should try to go next. Even though that's part of the mystery a bit more of a tutorial at the beginning would have been nice.

oliver_day11 Oct 2024, 11:50

I also found the underling premises quite quirky.

DJTequila11 Oct 2024, 15:18

Very cute game, I liked the storytelling. The social advancements were nice to have something to work towards. I think the UI could be simplified, there's too much text imo. Nice job overall!

ChrisBeck11 Oct 2024, 15:58

I really enjoyed this game! It was a challenge to balance the everything efficiently, the graphics were very appealing too! I think it could have done with a bit of music but all in all a really good job!

Fataljg11 Oct 2024, 18:37

Epic idle game ! Super fun and well balanced !

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