Ellipsis is a beautifully designed minimalist puzzler which demands fast mouse skills too - highly recommended!

I love the minimal but vibrant look of Ellipsis. The sound effects are dope too. Its challenging as well as weirdly calming in the same time. It’s a great game with a great idea behind it!

I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand I desperately needed to ensure I could continue providing. Upon learning the severity of the self-inflicted damage, I became almost suicidal. Keep in mind that just a few months before this, I was the happiest man, with no history of depression or anxiety. I had never experienced anger outbursts, nor was I the type to break down and cry, but I was in a tough situation that truly prevented me from seeing the light on the other side. With nothing better to do, I looked for a game I could pla...

It's like one of those move your mouse to move type games but this one is way longer than any of the ones I have played and it has custom levels and overall it's just a good game to play. 67/100

Fantastic game! I haven't seen this much creativity in level design since playing a Mario game. Seriously. And the graphics are beautiful! Kind of reminds me a bit of Octohedron. A lot of fun. I really like how the world map slowly reveals itself as you solve the puzzles. A couple small points that it could improve on. First off, the game offers controller support, but it's not possible to get 5 stars on each level using it. Your puck just moves to slowly while using a controller to cover the distances needed. Kind of sucks because the controller is my weapon of choice. It's also pretty clear that this game would benefit from a touch screen. The mouse works pretty good too, but sometimes I felt like the puck wasn't quite lined up with my mouse's movements. It's not game breaking, but takes a bit of getting used to. Finally, the times on some of the levels could stand to be tweaked. Some levels give you a ridiculous amount of time to get the full 5th star, but others are so tight it...

The idea of a full action game with just one mechanic (movement) is too interesting to pass up. With a clean presentation and single-screen levels that can be cleared in seconds, Ellipsis reminds me of some of my favorite levels in Super Mario 3D World, Bangai-O Spirits, and Super Meat Boy. Furthermore, levels often feature phase transformations, dynamic enemies, and other gimmicks that increase the depth and variety of gameplay. One world has vision-limiting fog. One world has stealth guards that sound an alarm if they spot you, increasing the challenge. One world even has the Superhot gimmick "time only moves when you do." These ideas are great and worthy of praise. What should not be praised is raw difficulty design. Getting 4 stars on a level is fine—touch the blue bubbles and the exit portal without getting hit and you're good. But getting 5 stars requires speedrunning. Mouse movement speed is virtually uncapped, this speed is required, and some enemies are also too fast. Exces...

I had a lot of fun with this game but trying to grab all the stars when my mouse randomly jumps into a deadly vienna sausage is making me a mald just a li'l bit

A delightfully challenging little mouse game that largely prioritizes substance over style. (+) About 150 levels, every handful of which introduces a basic concept before steadily ramping up its complexity (+) Approachable challenge for those just looking to finish, but getting 5 stars on each level will firmly test completionists (+) Quick restarts encourage retries, while bite-sized levels tempt you to play just one more (-) Starts off a bit slow (-) Occasional lag / cursor jitter can be infuriating (especially in later levels - consider lowering graphics settings) Paid $1.99 — Would pay $5.00

Fantastic. Truly minimalistic, but challenging and addictive. I checked it because I'm a fan of the VR games from these devs. So I got it in a sale. I didn't expect to like it so much, but sometimes you need a simple game that offers the right amount of challenge, and this was ideal. The levels do get progressively more difficult, but so far it's manageable. A nice challenge. Reminds me a bit of Hyperdot. I like that there's games like this.

To put this game simply, you play as a blue shape and outshapes other blue shapes. But these blue shapes have tiny blue shapes inside of them. If you want to get all 5 golden shapes for that level, you have to collect all the tiny shapes inside the big blue shapes by outshaping the big blue shapes before the green shape up top shrinks too much. As you outshape more big blue shapes, a new big blue shape gets shapened with even more tiny blue shape. But you gotta watch out, as there are other non-blue shapes that are trying to outshape you, who is trying to outshape the blue shapes. So you gotta stop the other shapes from outshaping you by dodging, or finding ways to outshape the shapes that are trying to outshape you who is trying to outshape the big blue shapes with all the tiny blue shapes. This game is really minimalistic.