Tool Time 64

Tool Time 64 is a bizarre homebrew game for the Nintendo 64 by Team Project-Simulacrum. It was released on 02 Feb 2026 for the 2025 64brew Game Jam.

You can get the ROM from its download page by using the password howdyhothere. You can also get it from Drive and see the source code on itchio.

About Tool Time 64

The game is obviously named after the show-in-a-show from Home Improvement, the TV series that spanned most of the 90’s. The series had its own game on the SNES, but it has absolutely nothing to do with this homebrew game, so forget it ever existed.

TT64 takes place on a large platform floating in the void, and you’re on it in the 1st person perspective. There are only two other things on top of the platform, a series of statues and some faces of Al Borland floating in the background.

The five statues switch between smiley and frowny faces at regular intervals, but otherwise seem to do nothing.

All the Al Borland faces do is ominously travel around the screen. They move around its perimeter always staring at you, it a bit like Siemon, except these aren’t harmful.

Pressing B shoots out a hammer, but that doesn’t do anything. It just falls with gravity and disappears. I checked the source code, and they have spawning and rendering subroutines, but nothing to interact with any other object.

You can die though. If you walk off the platform you’ll eventually get a game over.

Credits

Tool Time 64 was made by Team Project-Simulacrum which consists of:

• Tree
• FadedParadigm
• HBW

Review and conclusion

This is another one of those games that blur the boundaries between a demo and a game. There technically is some kind of interactivity, but nothing really comes out of it. It’s really just a surreal dreamworld in which you are made to exist within.

Everything about it screams playful excess: loud sound effects, ridiculous scenery, and a world filled with strange nonsense. The presentation is basic and rough, but in a way that gives the whole game an unmistakable charm.

I do feel as though I’m missing something while playing it though. As if there’s some kind of hidden objective that I haven’t figured out just yet. I had a look at other people reviewing Tool Time 64, but they all came t a similar conclusion: Its a bizarre dreamlike sensory fever dream experience. Nothing more, nothing less.