Mouse: P.I. For Hire Gameplay Trailer Highlights Hand-Drawn Visuals Ahead of New Deep Dive Presentation | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025

Publisher PlaySide and developer Fumi Games showed up for IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025 to premiere a behind-the-scenes gameplay trailer for its black-and-white boomer shooter, Mouse: P.I. For Hire.

The minute-long video takes a peek down the curtain to amusement fans however Fumi utilized hand-drawn visuals to make a stylized FPS that looks similar a premix of Cuphead, Doom, and old-school Disney cartoons. It comes with an updated look astatine Mouse: P.I. For Hire’s galore locations, characters, and weapons that telephone backmost to shows of the ‘20s and ‘30s up of its yet-to-be-announced 2025 merchandise day for PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X | S.

“It’s hand-crafted amusement afloat of love, made for existent people, by existent people,” the Mouse: P.I. For Hire squad says successful the trailer.

Today’s IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025 sneak peek is besides lone a sensation of what’s to come. Fans tin expect to instrumentality a heavy dive into the improvement of Mouse: P.I. For Hire erstwhile an in-depth making-of presumption premieres arsenic portion of the adjacent ID@Xbox showcase Tuesday, October 28, astatine 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET. That elusive merchandise date, meanwhile, volition besides yet beryllium revealed arsenic portion of the Galaxies Gaming Showcase travel October 23, which you tin ticker via IGN.

Fumi revealed its eye-catching shooter with a little teaser trailer successful 2023. Then, it was simply known arsenic “Mouse,” with its afloat Mouse: P.I. For Hire rubric not arriving until its re-reveal successful precocious 2024. Fumi and PlaySide person since added The Last of Us and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle prima Troy Baker to their formed arsenic rodent detective Jack Pepper, arsenic players hold until adjacent week for that PC and console merchandise date.

We’ll larn much astir Mouse: P.I. For Hire erstwhile its heavy dive presumption arrives successful a fewer weeks. In the meantime, beryllium definite to cheque retired our preview to spot wherefore we consciousness the upcoming boomer shooter afloat embraces its hand-drawn aesthetic.

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