First Look: Mouse House

Mouse House is a very adorable and surprisingly complicated puzzle game from Plaid World Studios. At first look, it seems like a very simple game with graphics that appear to be on par with Super Nintendo games. But, it's actually surprisingly tough and addictive.

The game's premise is simple -- eat cheese and progress through the unlocked doors once they open. Along the way, you have to dodge bees, evil rats, crumbling floors and try not to get pinned in a corner by pushing balls the wrong way. It looks simple, but isn't. After completing the 8-level tutorial, it took me a few retries to get through the next few levels.

The sound effects are truly what make this game stand out. The little noises from eating cheese and getting through an open door successfully are quite adorable. The controls are easy to use -- tap the screen in a vertical or horizontal line from where the mouse is and he'll move to that spot. There's no game soundtrack other than the sound effects. Instead, you can listen to the music already loaded on your iPhone or iPod Touch and the sound effects will play over the music. However, I enjoy the effects so much I simply play without the music.

Mouse House (link opens iTunes) is currently available for US$.99

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Chaot 2008

OXYD from the venerable Atari ST revamped.

December 20 2008 at 7:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Lesson

You can display subtitles in any size, any position on the video, move them dynamically with the keyboard, adjust the delay,

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December 19 2008 at 11:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chip's Challenge. Very similar. There's another iPhone game called Loopy Laboratory that's even more like Chip's.

December 19 2008 at 11:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kapitol

This reminds me of an old Windows 3.1 game - I can't for the life of me remember the name, but the concept was basically the same: you had a little guy whom you moved around a castle, getting keys to open doors and solving smaller puzzles along the way. I think I recall it being called bit-something (bit boy? bit 2000?).

If this is as addicting as that was, it will be money well spent...

December 19 2008 at 10:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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adam

yes! what was that game!?!

December 19 2008 at 11:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Freestyle Farfetchd

Was it called chips by any chance? If we're talking about the same thing, that's what we used to call it at school. Neat little thing... very blury memory

December 20 2008 at 4:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Thomas

Reminds me a bit of Blobbo. Anyone remember that on the Mac?

December 19 2008 at 10:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bill Waggoner

Fun game to play while waiting for something else to happen. I have several of these "puzzle" games. Rolando was my most recent (before this one) and I really like the challenges. This is a "keeper."

December 19 2008 at 9:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

haugenhaus

Reminds me a lot of the Adventures of Lolo for NES

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Johnny Thrash

Definitely reminds me a Lolo. One of my old favorites.

December 20 2008 at 7:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

alansky

Other app developers have noted that the iPhone doesn't allow the user to play music stored on the iPhone while another app is open. Has this changed?

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Megan Lavey-Heaton

I definitely was able to play music stored on my iPhone while playing this game. It was interesting, listening to J-pop while going through some of the levels.

December 19 2008 at 9:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jason mark

You said:

> graphics that appear to be on part with Super Nintendo games

I think you mean on "par" with Super Nintendo games... :)

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December 19 2008 at 8:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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unteins

After completely the 8-level tutorial, it took me a few retries to get through the next few levels.

And I think she means completing instead of completely.

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