JARS
Mousetrap Games · 2021 · Strategy, Tower Defense, Singleplayer, 2D Platformer, Puzzle
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About JARS
Join Victor's bizarre adventure in the family basement. Discover enormous minions and dangerous nasties hidden in the shadows of the cellar. What shady secrets are buried under the house? Why are some pages in this mysterious book missing? And why the heck is there a Dracula in the basement?! The fate of the world rests on Victor's skinny shoulders! Will you save the world or get grounded by mother?
The goal is simple – destroy all Jars!
JARS is a strategy game featuring puzzles and elements of tower defense.
Break all the jars and protect the Sarcophagus – that's your main goal!
Think fast and plan strategically – each level requires you to adapt.
Distinct art style inspired by spooky and funny classics
Hand-drawn art that perfectly reflects the mood of an old, grim cellar with a little bit of dark humor.
Jars focuses on randomization and adaption
The player can never be certain what is inside a jar – each reveal is exciting.
New mechanics and situations in each level will fill your journey with surprises!
DLC & expansions
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Base game + 1 of 1 DLC at today's best prices.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Players praise JARS for its charming art style and unique aesthetic atmosphere, but widely criticize it for repetitive gameplay that becomes tedious quickly. The game suffers from poor difficulty balancing, grindy progression mechanics that feel overly dependent on luck, and a high price point that only seems justified when on sale.
JARS is an unusual puzzle-strategy hybrid developed by Mousetrap Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment. Released in 2021, the game blends elements of tactical planning, puzzle solving, and light tower-defense mechanics into a compact but distinctive experience. Rather than placing players in large battlefields or expansive worlds, JARS confines its entire adventure to a mysterious basement filled with shelves of glass containers. Within these jars lurk strange creatures, hidden traps, and useful tools that must be strategically unleashed or avoided. The game’s charm lies in how it transforms this small, claustrophobic setting into a series of clever tactical puzzles where every decision—especially which jar to open—can dramatically change the outcome of a level. The story centers on a young boy named Victor, whose curiosity leads him to explore the secrets hidden beneath his family’s home. The basement is far from ordinary; it is filled with hundreds of sealed jars containing bizarre creatures known as “Nasties,” along with mysterious magical artifacts. When Victor begins opening these jars, he accidentally releases these creatures into the environment, triggering a strang…1 found this helpful
Pros: nothing but the art-style and the funny nostalgic games. Cons: so repetitive, very slow progression, pure luck, very bad game.
You force me to grind a VERY repetitive content to be able to progress and unlock new levels? No thank you! ♥♥♥♥ you very very much!
Enjoyable little tower defense game with unique aesthetics! Really liked the vibes, though the game does get repetitive after some time. Still! I do recommend giving it a try, especially when it’s on sale, considering how cheap this game tends to get!
poorly designed at a very exorbitant price, its fine on sale but gets pretty stale
I had some fun with this game, but it has one of the most unbalanced difficulty curves I've seen. Also, while there's a lot of stuff the game asks you to do, I would say that it mostly asks you to do the same thing a lot, rather than a lot of different things.
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