Hello, everyone! I'm so glad I found this thread, because there is one unknown game that has been bugging me for years.
It was an old PC game that I played on a programmer's computer with Windows 98 on it. It was a side-scrolling maze-type game with a small creature as the main character. I think it was a white mouse that walked on two legs, but I could be wrong. It navigated up, down and across the exterior wall of a very strange cylindrical tower that was made of bricks/stones.
The mouse never went inside the tower and there were various stairs and doors along the outside that would lead it to other different paths or dead ends.
The graphics were 2D and looked darkish and monotone, there weren't many bright colors and the tower didn't fill the whole screen, there was a dark background behind it. The camera was always fixed on the mouse with the tower ?rotating? around it.
As for gameplay elements, I don't remember any kind of combat or other characters besides the mouse. I don't recall a clear goal or narrative either.
One last thing - the programmer mentioned there was a top to the tower, but I never managed to reach it due to the confusing paths.
I hope this helps, because I really want to find and finish this game.