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# They Finally Let Mickey Mouse Have A Gun
- URL: https://aftermath.site/mouse-pi-for-hire-impressions-mickey-mouse-gun/
- Published: 2026-03-13T14:28:07.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-13T14:28:07.000Z
- Description: Thank goodness
- Author: Nathan Grayson
- Tags: Impressions, mouse: pi for hire, Video Games, gdc

A couple years ago, I made a simple request to the powers that be: [Let Mickey Mouse have a gun](https://aftermath.site/epic-games-disney-fortnite-mickey-mouse-gun/). Epic and Disney, who I was petitioning at the time, have yet to follow through or probably even notice the glaring lack of bullet-spitting steel in Mickey’s four-fingered mitts. Fortunately, we have indies on our side.

During a GDC showcase this week of third-party games coming soon to Nintendo platforms, I spent some time with [*Mouse: PI For Hire*](https://www.mousethegame.com/?ref=aftermath.site), a shooter on the boomier side about a hardboiled mouse detective that wears its old-timey cartoon influences on its sleeve. Crucially, said mouse, who would not appear out of place in *Steamboat Willie*, has a gun—many guns, in fact. A pistol, a shotgun, a weird, blobby acid rifle thing; the list goes on. Over a dozen, according to [the game’s Steam page](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2416450/MOUSE%5FPI%5FFor%5FHire/?ref=aftermath.site).

*Mouse: PI For Hire*'s look pulled me in, but what kept me playing were the details: bouncy animations for everything from characters to health potions and a general embrace of wacky unreality that mixes 1930s detective tropes with retro-style mad science run amok. It’s clear that a lot of care went into realizing the game’s setting, and more importantly, you can tell that the developers had *fun* with it. There’s a cheerful liveliness to the whole thing, even if you are, at the end of the day, killing many of its inhabitants. 

Also, the game has [a double jump](https://aftermath.site/double-jumps-rule-actually/), so it’s basically catnip for me (or an appropriate mouse equivalent). *Mouse: PI For Hire* releases on April 16, the day before my birthday. Probably not a coincidence.

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