MOUSE: P.I. For Hire
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
First-person gunfights against enemy mice and rats using pistols, melee weapons, and gadgets in arena shootouts, rendered in a stylized 1930s cartoon aesthetic.
Melted cheese functions as a liquor analog and powdered/blue cheese as a drug analog, with cheese prohibition and bootlegging ('cheeselegging') central to the criminal underworld.
The story deals with murder, political corruption, and the abduction and disposal of a marginalized 'shrew' underclass.
A cult subplot and a project to contact an eldritch 'Unknown' add spooky, menacing atmosphere.
Organized crime, bootlegging, corrupt police, and murder investigations pervade the noir plot.
A cult occupies a lab and pursues a ritual project to reach 'The Unknown' during the investigation.
Noir detective dialogue includes moderate profanity.
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What it is
MOUSE: P.I. For Hire is a single-player first-person shooter set in a 1930s noir world of anthropomorphic mice, where you play hardboiled detective Jack Pepper solving a string of cases across the corrupt city of Mouseburg. Play alternates between investigation and puzzle-solving and arena gunfights using pistols, melee weapons, and gadgets, all drawn in a stylized vintage-cartoon look. The story deals with mature crime-drama material — murder, organized crime, police corruption, a cheese-as-liquor-and-drugs prohibition theme, cultists tied to a mysterious experiment, and an underground trafficking operation targeting the town's minority shrew population.
How it's framed
The game frames the player as an investigator uncovering corruption and injustice; violence is directed at criminal enemies, and the darker plot elements — trafficking, corruption, and exploitation of a marginalized group — are presented as wrongs the detective works to expose rather than as things to celebrate.
Details
- Developer
- Fumi Games
- Publisher
- PlaySide Studios
- Released
- 2026-04-16
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