Inventory Tetris (Mausritter) with Quinns

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Mausritter is an old school dungeon crawling game where instead of playing as elves fighting dragons, you play as mice fleeing from owls. It’s not unlike any number of other old school games like Cairn or Into the Odd, but its inventory system is the only inventory system I’ve ever actually liked. Does it work differently than other games? At a raw numbers level, not really! But instead of a bunch of paper bookkeeping, Mausritter turns items into little cardboard squares like board game pieces that you put in a grid on your character sheet. That physicality makes all the difference.

Further Reading

Mausritter by Isaac Williams

The Lonely Oak by Victor Lane

Cairn by Yochai Gal

Blades in the Dark by John Harper

Quinns Quest on youtube and patreon.

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