There's More to Mouse: PI for Hire than Cartoon Violence

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

Mouse: PI for Hire is a lot deeper than I initially assumed. When the game first caught buzz in May 2023 with an early teaser populated by placeholder assets, I didn’t understand the hype. 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,…

Hand-Drawn Animation Shines In Mouse PI For Hire Hands-Off Preview

MOUSE P.I. For Hire is a classic first-person shooter (FPS) developed by Fumi Games and published by PlaySide Studios. Inspired by the classic cartoons of the 1930s and noir films of the era, this FPS also embodies the “boomer shooter” subgenre with flair. In MOUSE PI For Hire, the players are Private Investigator Jack Pepper (Troy Baker), a former war hero turned detective who sets out to rid the city of all the corruption. Only, Jack learns th…

Zany video games that look like 1930s Mickey Mouse are a trend I didn't see coming

2025 is becoming the year of rubber hose game animation.