During the Nintendo Partner Direct today, an interesting looking little game was revealed called Hela. The game puts you in control of a mouse who’s the familiar of a kind hearted witch that’s fallen ill. The mouse looks to find a cure for the witch while also helping the world around them along the way.

Hela gameplay trailer

If you’d like to see today’s gameplay trailer, here you go:

As we’ve seen with games like Grounded and the army men games from back in the day, the world through the eyes of someone that small looks gargantuan and can create for some interesting level design within games.

Hela looks to be more focused on puzzle solving and exploration with the mouse but there still looks there may be some more tense moments as the mouse was shown dodging birds of prey. The game also has a focus on Co-op as multiple mice were shown doing things such as using each other as platforms.

Games where you play as an animal have caught a lot of gamers eyes in recent years, most notably Stray back in 2020 and Maneater, the Jaws inspired shark game which proved to be quite popular. Maybe Hela with it’s charming looking story about a mouse that can glide and zip around like Spider-Man will also capture an audience.

An official date hasn’t been set but Hela is planned to launch in 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2, PC, Xbox Series X/S and PS5.