Saucelings — a free Lemmings-style rescue puzzler
Puzzle
Strategy
Casual
About the game
A crowd of curious little saucelings comes marching out of the hatch, and they'll walk straight off a cliff if you let them. You can't control them directly — instead you hand out jobs. Turn one into a Digger to tunnel down, a Builder to bridge a chasm, a Basher or Miner to carve through earth, a Blocker to turn the crowd around, a Floater to survive a long drop, a Climber to scale walls, or a Bomber when only a hole will do. Get enough of them safely to the glowing exit across nine hand-built levels. Plays with mouse, touch, or keyboard.
How to play
Controls
- Desktop: click a job in the toolbar to select it, then click a saucling to assign it. Drag or use the arrow keys to pan around a larger level.
- Mobile: tap a job, then tap the saucling you want to give it to. Drag the level to scroll and pinch to zoom out for the full picture.
Tips & strategy
Read the whole level before you spend a single job — count your saucelings, find the exit, and trace the one path that needs the fewest skills. Blockers are your cheapest insurance: drop one early to pen the crowd while you build a bridge or dig a shaft elsewhere. Keep at least one Floater in reserve for the long drop you can already see coming, and never bash toward the exit if a thin wall is the only thing standing between the crowd and a pit. Builders run out of bricks mid-staircase, so start them a step sooner than feels necessary. When a plan goes wrong, the restart button costs nothing — a clean run beats babysitting a doomed one.
Fullscreen
Hit the Fullscreen button in the bar above the play area to expand. To exit, press Esc (or swipe down from the top edge on touch) and tap the Exit button that slides in.
Puzzle notes
Plan, don't react
Saucelings rewards the player who pauses. The crowd never stops marching, so every clear starts as a thinking problem, not a reflex one. The best levels give you exactly enough jobs to reach the exit and nothing to waste, which turns each assignment into a small commitment you have to mean.
Reading the crowd
Half the skill is timing — assigning the right job to the right saucling at the right second as the line streams past. Blockers and Floaters are the quiet heroes here: they buy you the moments you need to set up everything else without losing the front of the crowd to a fall.
Why players return
The loop is the classic puzzle hook: a level looks impossible, you spot the one trick it's hiding, and the solution suddenly feels obvious. It gives Legitsauce a patient, brain-first puzzle game that sits comfortably next to the reflex and arcade titles in the catalog.
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