It's On The Mouse

It's On The Mouse developed and published by XryEcho is an unconventional blend of café management and 3D platforming that leans heavily on its quirky premise to stand out. Instead of treating management as a menu-driven, behind-the-scenes system, the game turns every task into a physical challenge. You control a tiny maid navigating oversized environments, where delivering food or seating customers becomes a matter of jumping across furniture, avoiding hazards, and moving with precision through a space that feels disproportionately large. It’s a clever idea on paper, and when it works, it creates a kind of gameplay loop that feels genuinely different from most titles in either genre. The core experience revolves around balancing two competing demands. On one side, you’re managing a café—handling customers, fulfilling orders, and maintaining a steady flow of service. On the other, you’re actively traversing each level in real time, dealing with platforming challenges that require timing and spatial awareness. This dual-layer design means you’re never just standing still making decisions; you’re constantly in motion, reacting to both environmental obstacles and the needs of your cu…

It's On The Mouse! You run a cafe while playing as one of 4 characters, each with their own quirk and playstyle, and running the business isn't easy; challenges appear as you work, sometimes having their own unique encounter where instead of running the cafe, you deter pesky intruders, sometimes on their own turf! Your perfomance is rated based on the coins you get from customers, better service = higher value coins when you finish, you get up to 3 croissants: Bronze, Silver and Gold. Silver and Gold croissants unlock additional color palettes for the characters and extra, completely different gamemodes for you to try your hand at. This is all wrapped up with a story that is fully voiced, featuring people you may already know.. On any sale, this game is worth your coins and your gold croissants. Looking forward to more games by these guys

haha it's called on the mouse because it's like on the house but you're a mouse I love that

+ Good twist on the service genre + Each playable character feels unique - Terrible voice acting - Awful action segments (3 periodic bosses followed by a boss rush of 5 levels at the end, 1 "exploration" level) - Clunky UI and menus It's a real shame because I actually find the core game of serving customers to be very satisfying. I wish that, instead of adding a bunch of boss levels with very clunky controls, they had continued to flesh out the main room service. Add more tables and/or customer types. By the end, you only have: normal, shy, child, busy, professor, and angry. I think of something like Plants vs Zombies 1 that launched with 22 standard zombies (not counting bosses, summons, or minigames). I can forgive the poor voice acting because you can turn it off (I think they probably gave voice roles to donors), but the menus are slow and require you to back out to the main menu to change options. No accessibility stuff, no volume sliders, just on/off. You can skip start and end of level cutscenes, but not cutscenes in the middle of boss battles. A general lack of polish. Developer has stated that have moved on to their next project and aren't interested in improving it. To…

Cute little restauranting game. Bought it for the pun alone and was not dissappointed.

It's On The Mouse is a fun take on the restaurant running game genre. Perhaps you always wondered how Ratatouille was able to run a French kitchen as a rat and always wished to give it a shot yourself? This game allows for that. Lets break down the review into categories: [list] [*]Presentation [*]Characters/Story [*]Gameplay [*]Final Thoughts [/list] [u] Presentation [/u] This game is an indie game created with a small team. Its quite obvious that the models and environments are rough, the voice acting is a very mixed bag, and the UI is basic. For what it is the presentation is workable. This is a cute anime style game with cute enough characters and environments. You can still tell what things are supposed to be and clearly identify them from a distance. Some of the voice acting is difficult to listen to, but other times its quite good. In my opinion this is forgivable from non-professionals. There are very popular games out there worse in all of these mentioned categories. [u] Characters/Story [/u] This game is like watching a comedy anime in many regards. Magic is established early on and often "things just happen." The characters and plot are simple and don't…