The Spirit and the Mouse News

Hey there fellow rodent lovers!

We hope you're doing well (and surviving the heat), we have good news for our Apple users: the game is now available for Mac 🐁

It took us a long time to do as we were busy on other game versions and a physical release, but we always had you in the back of our mind. We hope you'll love the game if you were waiting on a Mac version to be able to give it a try!

Now, if you encounter any bugs please report them on the Steam Discussions, or if you just want to share cute screenshots of the game feel free to @ us over at @SpiritAndMouse (you can even send us cute rodent pics, we love those 💛)

That's it squeakers!!


Alex and Luka ⚡🐭

Hi everyone👋 First of all, Happy New Year! It's been a while since our last update, since then we had time to add a few accessibility features as well as fixing bugs that we had in our backlog.

Here is what we've addressed in this patch:

New features

• Added option for crouch hold/toggle. (Settings > Game)
  
• Added option for high contrast mode. (Settings > Game)
  
• Added option for disabling camera auto rotation. (Settings > Game)
  
• Added option for turning on closed caption (Settings > Audio)
  
• Added new rebind option for new control: Autorun. Press the button to toggle autorun. (Settings > Game)
  
• Added ability to pause cutscenes (using the Start/Esc button during a cutscene)
  
• Added a cheat to toggle "Popcorn mode", activated by a combination of Squeaks and shocks....
  

Bugfixes

• Major: Fixed Crash happening when trying to exit Kicry's area after starting their minigame.
  
• Major: Fixed softlock happening if player completed Kiscribe while Kiclumsy was started, and quit the game directly after.
  
• Fixed typo and grammar errors in french
  
• Fixed brightness option not working correctly
  
• Improved collision in East Stairs back alley
  
• Fixed multiple holes in geometry
  
• Slightly move Kisenior to prevent player from being stuck
  
• Adjust collision to prevent player from getting stuck in gutter near Kisprint in East
  
• Autorun can be triggered while running
  
• Kidive help sparks don't disappear until current request is validated
  
• Various minor fixes
  

Misc

• Map pin for the secret dressing room in South Square is always visible
  
• Kidive (North) and Kisprint (West) have dynamic difficulty. Kidive will show sparkles on the right object after 2 fails. Kisprint minigame in west gets easier the more you fail
  
• Vibrate controller when changing the rumble setting on/off
  

As always, we thank you for your support and all the nice messages we received 💛 If you haven't yet left a review on Steam, it would mean a lot to us if you do! If you are playing the game on Steam and have run into issues, please reach out and we'll see what we can do to help.


Thank you so much for your support!

Squeak squeak,
Lucie & Alex 🐭⚡

Nominate The Spirit and the Mouse for the "Sit back & Relax" award!

We think "Squeak back & relax" would have been a better name for the award though... It would mean a lot to us if you could nomiate our game by checking that box🐭!

We're excited to announce that Steam has reviewed The Spirit and the Mouse and has marked us as Steam Deck Verified! This is the highest of 4 levels of compatibility by which Steam categories games, meaning that Lila is "fully functional on Steam Deck, and works great with the built-in controls and display".

Big shout out to Kilearn for all those late nights pouring over Steam's documentation so that we could get this right without a Steam Deck of our own. Speaking of which, if you DO have a Deck and care to share pictures of Lila and friends running on yours, please tweet @SpiritAndMouse so we can see!

That's all for now. Thanks for all your feedback and lovely reviews. It's so wonderful to see you all helping villagers and wrangling Kibblins.

Squeak squeak,
Alex and Lucie ⚡🐭

Hello all! Thanks to your feedback and reports, we fixed a few issues in the game!
Here are the changes in this patch:

North

• Resized Kiclumsy objective trigger zone, preventing a soft lock if the player exited the zone or the game after finishing Kiscribe minigame.
  

West

• Fixed softlock state occurring if the player quit the game without saving after Kilearn's first dialogue in the West Residence.
  
• Added a failsafe for players with a softlocked save due the issue mentioned above.
  

General

• Fixed visual bug when triggering ending cutscene while in Electric mode.
  
• Corrected typos in English & French text.
  
• Pressing F6 on the keyboard unlocks the cursor completely. Pressing it again hides it.
  

As always, we thank you for your support and all the nice messages we received :yellow_heart: If you haven't yet left a review on Steam, it would mean a lot to us if you do! If you are playing the game on Steam and have run into issues, please reach out and we'll see what we can do to help.


Thank you so much for your support!

Squeak squeak,
Lucie & Alex 🐭⚡