Vexularg

The witches want to summon the infernal ghoul Vexularg. You'll need a hearty offering to attract him. Eight things should do it.

Controls, any of:

• Arrows, Z, X
• WASD, Space, Comma
• Gamepad (Dpad, South, West)

One session of play takes exactly 3 minutes. I promise you won't beat it the first time, but after learning the lay of the land, it's actually very easy to win.

Made for B1T JAM, December 2025, theme "OFFERING".

Updated after the jam, with color graphics. To play in the original 1-bit graphics, press X during the intro.

No AI or 3rd-party assets were used, and everything except the framework was made during the jam week.

Source: https://github.com/aksommerville/vexularg

My high score at time of publication: 707121

Advice. Feel free to skip this and start playing!

• All eight things are required for the best ending, but you can successfully summon Vexularg with just two.
• You don't need to be in the altar room when time runs out. And anything you're carrying *is* included in the offering, wherever you are.
• Things don't need to be on the altar, just in the room.
• Fan and magnet operate on you, in stubborn defiance of real-world physics, if you hold them by the business end.
• Fan and magnet only operate on one thing at a time, and never through walls.
• It's not possible to lose the balloon. Can be difficult to recover sometimes, but always possible.
• Balloon will stop rising if you put something on top of it, including yourself.