Loop Lariat
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Link those lasso-bits, and round up them outlaws! Yee-haw!
It's tough out there. Out on the range. But that's exactly why they brought you here, isn't it? The town's been absolutely infested with do-no-good outlaws hailing from the Meeple Crew, and they're wrecking up the place. You've gotta take 'em out with your trustiest tool...your lasso. Well, many lassos— you get it.
Loop Lariat is a rootin'-tootin' spaghetti-western block puzzle game, where you wrangle bandits one move at a time. Make efficient use of the limited space...or, hope some dynamite comes your way if you make some bad choices. There's cool visuals, addicting gameplay with multiple modes to mess around in, and heaps of cowboy spirit.
Made during Falling Block Jam 2026. Yee-haw!
| Action | Keyboard | Controller/Playdate |
| Move | Arrow Keys | D-pad |
| Confirm/Place Block | Z | A |
| Back/Hold Block | X | B |
| Pause | Escape | Start/Menu |
(You can re-map keyboard bindings in-game, too.)
- Art, code, music, and SFX — Rae
- French localization — Voxy
- Root Beer font — Font End Dev
- xorshift PRNG implementation — Eli Piilonen (2DArray)
- LÖVE2D Knife library — airstruck
- LÖVE2D HUMP library — Matthias Richter
- Tween easings — Yuichi Tateno and Emmanuel Oga
- Lua JSON parser — rxi
- Thanks — davemakes, Voxy, Toad, Winter, Devon, and the Café!
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Aaaaaaaaaa, fun Pipe Dream-esque game! :D I love how due to ropes not disappearing inside loops, you can kinda think ahead with your piece placements to try and set up the foundation for the next capture while you're working on your current one, and it's neat to have moments where I leave myself open to bail out on a bigger clear in favor for a smaller one if it seems like I'm not getting the pieces I need, heheh
Also the TNT having delay is a cool choice too, even ended up having a moment where I was almost out of time in Arcade mode but had a lone Meeple that was easy to capture, so I sped through my piece queue and held a TNT so I could reach the piece I needed in time, meep(le)!
Nice music (especially the twangy instrument on the title screen) and sound effects, cool J2ME-esque aesthetic (I know it's being designed for the Playdate which is also a lo-fi platform, but this game gives me old flip phone game vibes which I loooove, and shoutouts to there being a daily challenge mode as well (though on the Windows version, it did give me the ability to play again (albeit with a different starting arrangement of Meeples), just as a heads up)! 💙
thank you for all the kind words!! 💖 AAUGH yeah i noticed the daily replay earlier — the jam versions locked in stasis now, but i'll have it fixed for whatever happens next with this game hahah. it having a different layout is weird, though; i'll look into that deeper. 🙂↕️
gunpey? in 2026? preposterous