You are a bacterium living in a sponge full of food scraps. Activate the failsafe and escape the sponge before you're microwaved and die!

My first "completed" game, for the Random Wikihow Jam. My prompt was "How to Clean a Sponge"

CONTROLS: Arrow keys to navigate. I to open inventory. Click and drag items from the inventory to solve puzzles.

Made in Construct 3. Less than 5 minutes to beat. Features (poorly) hand drawn art by yours truly.

I wasn't able to get the key and lightbulb to display in the inventory for some weird reason and I ran out of time for the jam before I could fix it - just picking them up is enough to solve the puzzle/unlock the door.

Bubble sfx by snottyboy, Microwave sfx by SPANAC. Inspired by Japanese escape room games by Neutral and Neatescape.

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Another bug, if you open the inventory while in the inventory it duplicates items.

ah, that's unfortunate :( thank you for letting me know. This one I probably do know how to fix for future games.

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nine out of ten times [esc] doesn't close the code panel

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Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'm not sure what to do to fix it but I'll take a look at the scripting.

I'm probably going to keep the game in the same state it was in for the game jam for posterity's sake, but once I figure out what's wrong I'll make sure it doesn't happen for any future escape rooms.