MOUSE: P.I. For Hire – Walkthrough Hub

MOUSE: P.I. For Hire is a fast-paced first-person shooter inspired by 1930s cartoons, featuring hand-drawn, frame-by-frame black and white rubber hose animation that delivers a strong vintage visual style.

You step into the shoes of Jack Pepper, a private investigator who takes on what appears to be a straightforward missing person case involving Steve.

What starts as a routine inquiry quickly pulls him into something far more complex, unfolding into a darker web of corruption and hidden truths through a noir-driven narrative.

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P.I. Far Higher Review

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Big Mouse, Little Hope | Prologue

The game opens with our protagonist, Jack Pepper, chasing down a target, though we have no idea who it is or why he is after them, setting the tone for the prologue.

From there, the game eases you into the core gameplay basics as things slowly start to unfold.

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The Vanishing Act

Back to where it all began, this is how things started, with Jack ending up on an airship while chasing a fleeing target.

The case kicks off after a call from his journalist friend Wanda about a missing person, Steve the magician, and from there, you are pulled straight into the investigation as the trail begins to unfold.

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Gumshoe In The Opera

After speaking with Betty, Steve’s assistant, she guides you to head to the Opera House where the Stage Designer might know something.

This becomes another lead Jack needs to follow in order to get to the bottom of Steve’s disappearance.

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Bandel’s Laboratory

The visit to the Opera House does not bring any clear lead on Steve’s disappearance, but you do manage to save your old friend Stilton from a planned assassination by some “stage extras.”

Stilton proves himself useful and mentions to Jack that if he needs a lead, he should investigate Steve’s secret lab under his house, as it might hold clues or useful leads there.

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A Bit Of A Scene

The discovery of the secret lab reveals that Steve had been working with a mad-type scientist in an attempt to bring his assistant back to life in the form of a robot, but the experiment failed miserably.

This turns out to be the only real clue there, leaving you seemingly at a dead end. Just when you are about to regroup and think things through, Stilton appears to have a new case for you to investigate: the disappearance of shrews; shrew shortage.

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Cheeseball Sub

From one case to another, Jack does not seem to catch a break, especially now that the cops are involved and corruption is running through the force, with crooked officers muddying the investigation.

The lead you picked up at the police station takes you to the Old Subway, deep into the sewers, as it seems this is where they have been trafficking the shrews.

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“Once Upon A Time…” By Tinsel Bros.

Steve’s disappearance and the shrew shortage both hit a dead end, leaving Jack with no clear direction on what to do next. Out of nowhere, a glamorous actress mouse arrives at his office, asking him to take on her case.

ivian had a close friend, Betty, who supposedly “died in an accident,” but she believes there is more to it and that the truth is different. She pushes Monsieur Pepper in her own way, and with Jack owing a debt, he takes the case on as well.

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A Bit Of Curd And Pepper

Your time at Tinsel and the clues you have found about Betty come as quite a shock, as you learn that she had been fraternizing with mayoral candidate Milford Soyer, revealed through a photo you found in her drawer in the dressing room.

Vivian mentions that getting close to Soyer himself will be a very difficult task, but you can start by checking on his right hand, Miles Curd, and see if he knows something.

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Saltwater Cambozo

Jack picks up a lead suggesting that Steve’s disappearance and the shrew shortage might be connected, pointing to the same people operating behind both cases.

With that in mind, he heads to Wallop Bay to track down Cameron Bozo, hoping the man has something useful to share. It is a long shot, but at this point, any lead is worth chasing if it helps tie everything together.

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White Lies And Dark Secrets

After the previous meeting with Miles Curd, Jack does not like the way he spoke to him and gets the sense that Curd was hiding something from their brief exchange about Betty, as if the topic struck a nerve.

So, as always, Jack takes matters into his own hands and decides to head to Curdville to see what he can uncover there.

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Damp Evidence

The Shrew Shortage case just got more confusing, but at least Jack’s meeting with the Cheeselegger foreman has confirmed some of his suspicions.

Now it is time to seek out the boss of the Cheeselegger and question him directly, in hopes of getting a definitive answer on what is happening, why it is happening, and whether there are any others involved.

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Shrewd Shrews

The shrew shortage case has become far too tangled, and the only real clue Jack found during his visit to the police station, where he uncovered the crooked cops, has led him straight to the Depths.

It is not much to go on, but at this point, it is the only direction left to follow if he wants to untangle what is really going on.

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It All Points Here, Right?

Visiting Curd’s mansion comes with a few twists that Jack did not expect. He first finds himself meeting Curd’s daughter, whom he takes with him to keep her safe.

Then he receives a strange call indicating that Curd is dead at the Secret Show, which sparks another investigation and sends Jack chasing yet another thread.

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“The Bookkeeper” By Tinsel Bros

The hitman Jack met at the Secret Show leaves him wondering why he would interfere with his investigation, and the only clue he gets from him is that his bookkeeper is into “western” things.

On top of everything else he has to deal with, Jack now has to track down this vague lead and figure out how it ties back into the growing mess he is trying to untangle.

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Swamp Oddity

When he found the full map in the Depths, Jack’s investigation pushes forward into Quagmire, where the trail of crooked cops and shrew trafficking finally starts to take shape.

He is hoping to uncover where the shrews are being trafficked and figure out who is behind it all.

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To Catch A Mockingmouse

The shrews you managed to rescue at the Secret Show end up leading to an unexpected opportunity, as their gratitude comes in the form of a special invitation to a steamboat party.

Despite Jack’s lack of experience with events like this, he turns to someone who is more familiar with this world, Stilton, the mayoral candidate who is supposedly very well versed in these kinds of affairs.

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“Fatal Repulsion” By Tinsel Bros.

Vivian slipped away from Jack when he confronted her, and there is no other place she could have gone except Tinsel.

Now Jack has to head there, track her down, and catch her, because she cannot get away with what she has done.

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One Flew

The Quagmire visit has given Jack a strong lead on where all the shrews are being trafficked, and it even hints at Steve’s possible location.

It seems Jack has to go and check the Nuthouse himself and, hopefully, come back from it still sane.

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The fumes inside the Nuthouse leave Jack feeling foggy and disoriented, to the point where he starts imagining Millie around him.

Just as he reaches the top, he discovers a strange portal leading to a different dimension. Could this be real, or just another one of his hallucinations?

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Glugging From The Deep

Jack finally finds Steve after all this time, and he did not expect him to be here. It turns out Steve actually wanted to disappear and was not kidnapped or anything like that.

His suspicious dealings with Ze Professor and possible connection to the shrew case forced him into hiding, but now that he is safe, it is time to go after Ze Professor.

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Jack Squat

Jack finally wraps up all his cases, and it is about time he enjoys his fondue and gets some rest.

But they could not even let our investigator enjoy himself, even while sipping the finest fondue, could they?

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The House Of The Empty Mouse

The town gets attacked, the office is burned to ashes, the evidence is gone, and there is nothing Jack can do about it, sadly. This leaves him miserable and with no idea what to do next.

A friend in need is a friend indeed, right? Steve did not forget that Jack went through hell to find him, so he drops a hint that he might have what Jack is looking for in his mansion.

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Fair Enough

Visiting Steve’s mansion leads Jack to find even better evidence than expected, a tape recording he can use to his advantage.

It is about time to reunite with Wanda and get this over with, and finally expose Soyer.

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Big Mouse, Little Hope | Endgame

When Jack exposes Soyer’s true identity in front of the crowd, he flees like the coward he is, but not on Jack’s watch.

After everything they have been through, this is not the moment for him to escape, so it is about time to chase him down and finish this case once and for all, for real this time.

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