Memento Muscae

Every fly has last words. Memento Muscae is a fast tapping game with a philosophical twist. Swat as many flies as you can in 20 seconds. As each one meets its end, it shares a final thought from history's great minds: Nietzsche, Seneca, Shakespeare, Confucius, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and more than 160 others. And rest assured: the swatter isn't AI, and we aren't the flies. ASK THE FLIES Stuck on something? Bring a question, swat flies for a calm 10 seconds, and read their last words as your answer. Seneca, Lao Tzu and Kafka have opinions about your job, your love life and your next move. Share the reading as a card. FEATURES • Ask the Flies: turn a round into an oracle for whatever's on your mind • Share any fly's last words, or a whole reading, as a picture card • 100 philosophical flies to collect — Existential Flyto, Stoic Flytaire, Absurdist Camuzz and friends, in top hats, crowns, capes, tutus, monocles and googly eyes • More than 600 last words, from ancient philosophers to famous deathbed one-liners • In Memoriam: after every round, read the collected wisdom of everyone you swatted • Golden flies worth 5 points • Power-ups: the Giant Swatter and Slow-Mo • Three difficulty levels, each with its own high score • The Fly Guide, an album of every kind of fly you've swatted • 36 splat sounds — boings, gongs, slide whistles, sad trombones and a dial-up modem • No ads. No accounts. No data collected. Works offline. "Then am I a happy fly, if I live, or if I die." — William Blake The swatter never tires, learns from every miss, and gets a little better each round. The flies, meanwhile, wrote the poems, asked the big questions and left the last words. They had a good run. Remember the fly.