We love it when we find weird and unique indie games to tell you all about! Our alien friends to the left herald these occasions.

Neal.Fun makes lots of great games and game–adjacent amusements. Every one is a winner, and Cursor Camp is just the latest of the lot.

When you load the page it’ll inform you that the page wants to take over your cursor. Let it, but remember that you’ll have to press Esc(ape) to get it back. It needs it so it can let it to fun things, like slide down slides, float down rivers or ride carousels!

There’s quite a lot of fun things for your summering cursor to do! There’s movies and Popeye cartoons in the camp theater to watch, there’s a cat to pet, there’s chairs to sit it, seashells to collect, hats to wear, chandeliers to knock about, and much more! And you can do them all with a horde of other pointers from around the world who are exploring too, each with a little flag to indicate which country they’re in.

Low-powered machines like my Pi 500+ may struggle with all the 2D effects going on, but other than that the only thing wrong with it that it doesn’t remember anything about your session when you close it. So if you want to have a go at collecting all nine achievements (noted in a book in the cabin lobby), you’ll have to do it in one sitting. Fortunately they’re not difficult to earn, and even easier to re-earn.

There’s even what seems to be a backstory to the camp, which you can uncover by reading the book in the treehouse, playing with the radio there, and maybe also interpreting the drawings on the wall of the cave. Are they just quirky easter eggs, or is there some meaning to them? I don’t know; maybe you can figure it out.

Cursor Camp (web, $0)

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