MouseCraft Will Hope to Make Some Cheese on the Wii U eShop

Lemmings meets Tetris

by Thomas Whitehead Wed 27th May 2015

The list of Indie titles heading to the Wii U eShop has expanded once again, with studio Crunching Koalas confirming that MouseCraft will come to the Wii U eShop in Fall / Autumn this year.

It's described as a blend of Tetris and Lemmings, as you place blocks as paths and obstacles to guide three blind mice to safety; obstacles will include "explosives, homicidal robotic rats, electrified blocks, and vats of acid". It seems there'll be a decent amount of content, too, with 80 levels and a level editor to be included.

This looks fairly promising at this stage, and is also coming to a broad range of consoles + PC. Check out the trailer below and let us know what you think.

Tom has been involved in the games industry for over a decade, mostly writing about it or struggling to sell Indie games. Loves reading, writing, hunting Capcom’s fiercest monsters and watching baseball.

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Drake
Wed 27th May 2015

It's already been available on PC for a good while. I thought it was kinda fun but the difficulty curve is a little steep, it goes from super easy to super hard in no time.

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GeminiSaint
Wed 27th May 2015

I played the Steam version a few months ago and completed the first 40 levels. It's a fun game.

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BoFiS
Wed 27th May 2015

I wish developers would have committed to bringing games to WiiU earlier as I already bought this game on Steam, but feel like having Gamepad controls with the touch screen might make it better and would have held off...

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Sherlock
Wed 27th May 2015

for a second i thought minecraft was coming to the wii u

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ULTRA-64
Wed 27th May 2015

Cool idea, I like the look of this. I really miss lemmings =(

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Mrclaycoat
Wed 27th May 2015

The Wii U needs to VC "Krusty's Fun House" asap!

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Flopsy86
Wed 27th May 2015

Being a massive Lemmings fan, I fail to see much of a resemblance in this game. You were able to give Lemmings skills to allow them to overcome obstacles and you weren't able to move the terrain around (only minimal terrain movement in Lemmings Touch)

Yes the mice are blindly walking to their doom but that is the only minor similarity to Lemmings. Don't mean to be harsh but I'm fed up of seeing games branding themselves as similar to Lemmings as a way of attracting attention.

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Will-75
Thu 28th May 2015

I almost got this on PSvita but I didn't because I knew I was gonna trade in the vita which I did , glad I waited I thought then it would be better on a bigger screen Wii U seems perfect for this title.

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joey302
Thu 28th May 2015

Thank goodness Nintendo getting good indie support cause otherwise the wii u brings nothing but crickets!

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YANDMAN
Thu 28th May 2015

another puzzle game...............just what we need

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polarbear
Thu 28th May 2015

YES! I have wished for this a long time.

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shani
Thu 28th May 2015

YEEEAAHH! That's a title I'll definitely buy! I loved Lemmings on the SNES (and Tetris, too, of course) and since then a lot of times I wished for a similar title. That video looks promising!

@Flopsy86: Seriously? What did you expect, a Lemmings clone?
As a Lemmings fan, I have to disagree with you. You have to save incapable individuals from dying in this Mouse game and that's exactly the main concept of Lemmings. That's enough resemblance for me to buy it. Yeah, you can't assign jobs to them but you also don't need that function since you have a Touchscreen and that Tetris-mechanism!
How can you not see the resemblance? Does it have to be an exact clone until you see it? I for one am happy that they didn't make a Lemmings clone but rather incorporated the main concept into a new game.