Forget Horror Steamboat Willie, There's A Mickey Mouse-like Boomer Shooter

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Steamboat Willie finally entered the public domain yesterday and, as you'd expect, a horror movie and game were immediately announced. Many were quick to call them out as "uninventive", labeling their creators as "hacks", but there's an adjacent game that's getting some extra love and attention now that all eyes are on the classic Mickey Mouse cartoon short.

"Reject horror slop, embrace boomer shooter," @FlareGamer64 tweeted, attaching a trailer for Mouse, an upcoming FPS game developed by Fumi. "Not exactly Steamboat Willie but Mouse is doing something far more visually inspired and interesting with the evil Mickey Mouse idea".

Mouse is planning to launch in 2025. You can add it to your Steam wishlist right now.

Imagine the iconic '20s rubber hose cartoon brought to life in a 2.5D space with old-timey music, classic Disney-style animations, retro guns, and cartoony deaths. Well, there are some gorey shooter staples sprinkled in like exploding headshots, but it still feels at home with the rest of the aesthetic. That's Mouse, and while it isn't literally using Steamboat Willie now that it's public domain, you're essentially stepping foot into that world with a loaded Tommy Gun and an itchy trigger finger all the same.

We see the player eating cheese, presumably to heal; dropping pianos on enemies; blowing bad guys up, turning them into crispy still-standing silhouettes; winding up their fist for a good wallop; shooting off finger guns; collecting old baseball cards; and, of course, throwing exaggerated dynamite.

If the name didn't give away that it's taking notes from those original Disney shorts, one look at the footage says it all. And what better time for it to blow back up again than when its inspirations become fair