Developer posts and news about this game.
As with some of his past projects, our animator (Ivan) is making a limited series of replicas & other pieces of art available for sale. He's started with a series of 25 mice which are full scale, functional replicas of our game's mouse. So far mice # 1 through 8 have already
We're excited about a huge milestone: Éalú is now available on Mac! Also, we just got featured in Make Magazine , which is an incredible honor. To celebrate, we're hosting our 2nd giveaway & discounting the game for the next week. Since Make magazine is all about creativity,
Today at Ardán's FÍS '26 Games Summit the Irish Game Awards 2026 ceremony, helmed by Imirt (The Irish game making association), took place. Our team was absolutely thrilled to find out that Éalú received the prize for runner up in the category of Best Experimental Game in a field
On a dry morning in early May of 2025 our animator, Ivan, woke up before sunrise to capture a timelapse sequence for the end of our game. It rains regularly in the spring in the SouthWest of Ireland, so he had been waiting for just the right conditions. He packed up 3 mice &
Good evening! We have resolved a longstanding issue with our game not properly scaling at irregular monitor aspect ratios, and on the Steamdeck. Buttons and composited sprites should appear exactly where they should be regardless of your screen size. We appreciate your patience w
Thank you so very much to everyone who entered our first ever giveaway! We were blown away by how many people participated, and how much care was expressed for our game and the mouse. We have a gift for all of our fans, so please read on past the winner announcement. We're excite
As we approach Valentines day, we wanted to celebrate the love so many have shown for the Mouse! Our animator, Ivan, has built and signed a functional replica of the stop motion mouse puppet used to animate Éalú. We're going to give this little critter away to one of our players
Hi all! Steamdeck users have reported an issue with Éalú's screen alignment making some buttons in the game hard to press. Fortunately one of our players discovered startup options which correct this (thank you Orio!!) And we've verified the work around. For Steamdeck users: -win
Good afternoon! It was recently brought to our attention that the version of Unity our game was running on, (Unity 2022.3.15f1) was discovered to be susceptible to a security vulnerability earlier this year. Unity made it very clear that there was no evidence that this vulnerabil
Dear mouse caretakers, We're excited that our game released in time to potentially take part in the Steam Awards. If you enjoyed the experience our team created, we hope you'll consider nominating us. The category we personally suggest is "Outstanding Visual Style" We believe thi
We're excited to announce that Éalú was accepted as part of Steam's Animal Fest! To celebrate, we're discounting our game by 20% for the duration of the event, from November 10th to 17th. Our team is thrilled that our clockwork mouse gets to be featured alongside a collection of
Hi all, Ivan here (our team's animator) To celebrate International Animation Day, I thought it could be fun to share some of the behind the scenes process of creating Éalú. Warning for those who haven't completed the game: There are spoilers ahead but I'll use Steam's feature to
We’re all so excited by the response to Éalú in the three weeks since we launched. Seeing players and reviewers from all over the world discover & enjoy our wooden mouse’s journey has been incredible. 🇬🇧 Rock Paper Shotgun Published a thoughtful, philosophical article about
Happy Monday! This morning we have rolled out our first Hotfix for Éalú to address some issues that were reported by our players early on. Thank you is in order for the players who encountered these issues and went the extra mile in reporting them on our community pages! Our firs
Hi everyone, We’re thrilled by the response to Éalú so far, and we want to thank everyone for playing! We also want to be upfront about a couple of issues some players have run into. Here's what's been reported and what we've tested, we'll keep this updated as we go. Now fixed!!
Due to some exciting changes in our schedules this week, we decided it would best for us to release Éalú earlier tomorrow! Éalú will now go live on October 2nd, 2025 at: 12:00am Pacific Time 1:00am Mountain Time 2:00pm Central Time 3:00am Eastern Time 7:00am GMT 8:00am Irish Time
We had an absolutely fantastic time at Dublin ComiCon!!! We really appreciate all of the people who came and either said hello, played the game or both. In addition to the overwhelming positive feedback people shared, we noticed a few ways we can polish the game even further and
Éalú's core dev team, Ivan Fisher-Owen (animator) and Ben Orr (developer), will be exhibiting the game in person at Dublin ComiCon on August 9th and 10th. We've been thrilled to hear from some folks already that they'll be stopping by our table to say hello and try out a preview
Éalú, from first time developers Beyond the Bark, starts with a strong premise: You are a mechanical mouse looking to escape a mysterious labyrinth . But its presentation is what really blows the doors down: Nearly everything is made out of wood, and rendered in full-on, stop-mot