Overview

Your mind is melting—but the maze won’t wait. Mental Toll is a bite-sized, top-down stealth game about spending sanity like loose change. Slip past single-cone sentries, weigh every trigger pull, and reach the exit before your memories go completely dark.

Story

You awaken in an endless complex of flickering green corridors. A voice in the dark whispers, “What will you give to get out?” Every breath chips away at your clarity. Violence shreds it faster. Hold on to enough of yourself and maybe—just maybe—you’ll remember why you came here at all.

Core Loop

Cost	Effect
Time	Sanity trickles down—move with purpose.
Shoot	Space-bar drains extra sanity per shot.
Spotted	A guard’s gaze triggers a rapid bleed.
Kill	Dropping an enemy hurts the most.
Exit	Reach the end to bank back a chunk of mind.

Three endings (“Clarity”, “Fragments”, “Echoes”) unlock based on your remaining sanity.

Features

• Solo Stealth Gauntlet – Three handcrafted rooms tuned for tight risk-reward flow.
• Cone-of-Vision AI – Guards only chase what they can truly see; learn their blind zones.
• Mental-Health Economy – Your life bar is also your ammo budget and timer.
• Retro Aesthetic – Block characters, and crunchy bleeps channel an Atari fever dream.
• Game-Jam Sized – Beat it in 10–15 minutes… then replay to chase the good ending.

Controls

• Move: Arrow keys
• Shoot: Space-bar
• Quit Room: ESC

Download & Run

1. Grab the ZIP.
2. No LÖVE? Just unzip and play.

Platforms

Windows, MacOs, Linux, Steamdeck

Credits

Role	Person
Code & Design	Hetsumani
Splash Screens	@qric_art
SFX & Music	Hetsumani
Framework	love2d.org

Special thanks to the “Mini Jam 187” jam community for the prompt and feedback.

Known Issues / Roadmap

• No gamepad support yet.
• Web build planned post-jam once performance is ironed out.

Can you keep your wits long enough to escape?
Download, dim the lights, and find out… before the maze takes what’s left.