Mouse Work is the newest Switch 2 mouse control game

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Nintendo’s Switch 2 has exactly one weird and exciting new feature: The Joy-Con 2 can be used like a mouse. And it works well — even on pants! But only a few titles so far have confirmed support for the new hardware, including Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, and a new game announced Monday: Mouse Work.

Mouse Work is a party game for 1-4 players who can use the Joy-Con 2 mouse controls to play minigames as, well, mice. It’s a mouse on a mouse, really: You use the Joy-Con 2’s mouse mode to play as a cartoon mouse-shaped cursor. You might have to shoot your opponent with a laser gun, work with your teammates to make it through a maze, or quickly close out pop-up spam (like in the indie demo Mindwave we covered during Steam Next Fest).

Of course, the team at studio Nitrome — who also made mobile game spinoff Shovel Knight Dig — couldn’t make its trailer using the Switch 2, which hasn’t been released yet and is due out June 5. It used a PC to capture the colorful footage shown in the trailer — but as long as the Joy-Con 2 mouse setting works as well as Nintendo has suggested it does, this game looks like a winner for the couch co-op fanatics out there.

No release date has yet been announced for Mouse Work, but the developer says, “[it] will release hot on the tail of the Nintendo Switch 2.”