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There's more to Mouse: PI for Hire than cartoon violence


Mouse is a clue-gathering, photo-snapping, girlfriend-avenging, noir detective simulator that happens to star a bunch of slick-talking mice and rats, and I’m fully into it.

The art style was definitely cool — Mouse is a black-and-white first-person shooter inspired by 1930s rubber hose cartoons, featuring bipedal rodents dressed like mobsters — but without any information about the gameplay loop, mechanics or narrative direction, I remained unmoved. Since that initial teaser came out, they’ve been fleshing out characters, drawing assets by hand, implementing puzzles and secrets, and tweaking individual weapons so that they feel just right. Killing enemies with a traditional gun leaves them lying in pools of black blood, sometimes with missing heads, and the game’s environments have destructible elements.

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