Mousebound

Mousebound

GNos Games · October 23, 2020 · Difficult, Singleplayer, Precision Platformer, Psychological Horror, Replay Value

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About Mousebound

✦ AI summary

Mousebound is a brutal 3D platformer where you control your character by positioning your mouse cursor in the direction you want to move, creating a uniquely challenging test of precision and patience. Navigate through four unforgiving levels inspired by Super Monkey Ball and Getting Over It, frequently losing progress as you discover new areas and unlock customization options including custom character images.

Mousebound is an unforgiving game of unique controls, patience, and discovery.

Play in a 3D world, using a 2D system.
Move your character by placing your mouse cursor in the direction you want to go.
  • Progress and explore 4 unique levels.
  • Gain progress, but be prepared to lose progress. Frequently.
  • Discover new levels and your limit of frustration.
  • Upload custom images to use as your playable character.
  • Unlock different items for customization.
  • Freedom awaits you at the finish line.

With inspiration from Super Monkey Ball and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.

Mousebound — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Sep 26, 2024
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7 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 25, 2020
I've had zero experience with a platformer game like this. Launching it for the first time, I was shocked by how visually appealing and creative every small detail was. I expected that the loss of progress would be common and frustrating and I was right. But that's what makes games like this one so much fun. Not only that, but the style and unique map design each level has makes all the pain and torment worth it to see what stunning display awaits for you beyond. I definitely recommend this title to fans of this style of game and newcomers alike.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 22, 2023
[h1]Before I played Mousebound, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Feb 6, 2023
its sooo hard
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 1, 2022
frickin spittering jetpackpack-ass jump that barely doesnt clear big gaps unless you time your clicks perfectly. then level 2 trying to make you jump on a camera that you have no hope on landing on the ball controls better than monkey ball though. tutorials way imbalanced though
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 28, 2025
"Mousebound" is an abandoned Early Access attempt to make a 3D platformer with a gimmick (that other games have done far better). For some reason you control a mouse pointer and the objective of the game is not actually playing it, but wrestling with the godawful controls. This is a flawed understanding of fundamental game design principles... user control handling is the most important thing to get right. Making the controls bad, on purpose, is a disservice to gamers. The developers abandoned this 4 years and 6 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games. The game graphics look better than you might expect, but that's just because it looks like some or all of them are "borrowed" from asset stores or wherever... there's stock/placeholder textures on all the surfaces... looks bad. Gamers can tell... and it comes across as insincere. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too. It's free... now, but it wasn't befor…

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