Eat the Moon by orangeoceans

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some mice have discovered that the moon is made of cheese. help them expand, infiltrate human society, and reach the moon!
this strategy game has two levels:
- house: expand in population and social complexity, while avoiding outstripping the cheese supply or alerting humans to your presence. once a critical threshold is hit, the mice will take over the house and set their sights on the rest of the city.
- city: send mouse spies all over town, smuggling cheese from factories, spreading propaganda, and manipulating municipal politics. take advantage of human technology and send a rocket to the moon!
features
- click on the map to show details for each region.
- perform actions in each region to gain resources.
- launch expeditions to colonize new rooms.
- avoid extermination by keeping a low profile.
- enact social advancements to gain new abilities and follow the narrative.
- manipulate city hall to implement pro-mouse policies.

| itch.io | https://orangeoceans.itch.io/eat-the-moon |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/eat-the-moon |
Ratings
| Overall | 427th | 3.659⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 446th | 3.523⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 569th | 3.273⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 80th | 4.273⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 777th | 3.227⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 294th | 3.5⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 648th | 3.405⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 8🗳️ | 22🗨️ |
Thanks for reporting the exterminator minigame bug. Unfortunately we can't reproduce it, as it seems to work fine on our end :(
We've decided to disable the minigame for now in favor of just a flat -50% population penalty.
Great job!
Although it was a bit hard to understand everything at first (lots of text to read) It did hook me until I could sent my little mouse society to space, yay ! Too bad it wasn't cheese though.
I felt that at some times the balancing was a bit off. Like at the beggining of level 2 were my supply of cheese would dramatically drop because of the sheer quantity of mice I had. And so I had to wait for some of them to do in order to produce enough cheese to buy a factory.
The writing made me smile and there's a good sense of progression in the game although it could be a little bit faster at some points.
All in all it's really a great job !