This Switch 2 Party Game About Mice Is Built Round, You Guessed It, Mouse Controls

Nitrome, the developer behind Shovel Knight Dig, has introduced a brand new sport known as Mouse Work. It’s solely constructed round using the Nintendo Switch 2’s mouse controls.

Mouse Work actually embraces the “mouse” concept. It is a social gathering sport by which gamers use Pleasure-Con 2s in mouse mode to regulate mice and full minigames. We see a number of of those minigames in motion in its debut trailer, equivalent to ones the place gamers choose up and stack containers, paint the strains that seem on a canvas, shut annoying pop-up advertisements on a PC desktop, shoot asteroids in area, information rock climbers up a wall, and extra.

In Mouse Work, every of those minigames is billed as a job that gamers should full to earn Cheddar, the sport’s in-game forex. Gamers can then use Cheddar to purchase new cosmetics for the mouse cursors that gamers management. The official description reveals that the entire sport may be performed in both solo or co-op. Half-Time UFO is the title that the majority instantly involves thoughts as a comparable sport.

Mouse Work is notable for being the primary built-for-Switch-2 indie sport introduced within the wake of the system’s reveal final week. It fills the identical area of interest as a sport like Snipperclips: Minimize It Out Collectively! as a kid-friendly, cooperative launch window sport the place gamers can get a grip on one of many Nintendo system’s core {hardware} ideas. The place Snipperclips emphasised simple cooperative play, Mouse Work takes benefit of the mouse capabilities of the Pleasure-Con 2 controllers.

Nitrome has but to substantiate a launch date for Mouse Work, merely saying that it “will launch sizzling on the tail of the Nintendo Switch 2.” The brand new system will come out on June 5 with a launch lineup that features Mario Kart World and extra.