Last updated on January 23rd, 2026 at 03:11 am
MouseHunt: Massive-Passive RPG – Adventure Game Review
MouseHunt: Massive-Passive RPG is a Adventure/Utilities/Roleplaying game from HitGrab Inc., first launched in 18th October 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 320+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes MouseHunt: Massive-Passive RPG Stand Out
The Kingdom of Gnawnia needs MouseHunters! Choose from dozens of unique mousetraps with their own elements and powerups. Arm your trap with magical cheese from all over the world, and end Gnawnia’s pest problem – one hunt at a time!
MouseHunt is an award-winning Idle RPG Adventure you can play anywhere, anytime. Check your trap throughout the day (and secretly while at work) or join friends and hunt together.
PLAY THROUGHOUT THE DAY
Your trap will passively catch mice for you every hour, all day and night, or sound the Hunter’s Horn to begin a hunt every 15 minutes. Friends adventuring with you can also sound the Horn on your behalf; hunting is always easier in teams!
CRAFT POWERFUL TRAPS
Mix and match your cheeses, weapons and bases to make a winning mouse-catching combination! Mice from all around the Kingdom have different preferences, weaknesses, and behaviours. Study the enemy, craft the perfect mousetrap, and set your bait! Maximize your trap power to catch rare and elusive mice while on adventures!
WORKIN' AS A TEAM
MouseHunt is the only Idle RPG Adventure where teamwork goes all the way! Join multiplayer treasure map hunts and win rare and limited-edition hunting tools and mouse bait.
Compete in tournaments and climb the leaderboards with your allies and become a tournament champion! Cover more ground when you hunt mice with your friends!
REGIONAL FRIEND HUNTING
Don't worry if you need to dip away from the adventure while hunting with friends. With Regional Friend Hunting, your friends can sound the Horn on your behalf in nearby regions.
Don't be idle in an Idle RPG – sound the horn and help your friends with their adventures!
SEASONAL HUNTING EVENTS
Something exciting is always afoot in the Land of Gnawnia. Your RPG is idle, but that doesn't mean your calendar has to be! Join us for the winter holidays for the Great Winter Hunt, or brew up creepy concoctions during our Halloween event. Check back regularly for new events, updates, multiplayer events and more!
And that’s not all! MouseHunters also enjoy:
● Over a thousand ridiculous, fantastical mice to catch, from the mundane Grey mouse to fire-breathing dragon-mice and much more!
● Dozens of unique locations spanning the depths of the Sunken City to the Floating Isles, each with its own ecosystem, puzzles, and progression to explore.
● Hundreds of trap combinations. Mix and match trap types and baits to catch different breeds of mice.
● Frequent community and seasonal events, quests, and minigames. There’s always something new to explore.
● An incredible player community of hunters, traders, and cheesemongers to play, trade, and swap hunting tips with!
Check back every 15 minutes for a new surprise! Can you rise to the challenge and be a Legendary MouseHunter?
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Follow us on Facebook for frequent updates and links to FREE LOOT! https://www.facebook.com/MouseHuntTheGame
Join the Fan Discord for hunting strategies, or to make friends with your fellow Hunters! https://discord.gg/mousehunt
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Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, MouseHunt: Massive-Passive RPG is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th January 2026
Recent improvements include:
- Various bug fixes.
Download & Availability
MouseHunt: Massive-Passive RPG is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get MouseHunt: Massive-Passive RPG on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We cant link the app to our Facebook account and dont want to start all over! Help.
Played 15 minutes, was starting to understand it, even though the only gameplay we had unlocked was like watching paint dry. Then the game promptly crashes and starts us over at the beginning. Deleted and wont be returning.
Played it for five minutes and now we have to wait 15 minutes to do anything. Will we have to wait 15 minutes between each action? Not waiting to find out. Deleted that trash.
This is the best passive gameplay game Ive played ever. However, mobile client is sometimes buggy.
This game has been the only mobile game Ive played consistently for more than 10 years. Its well-designed as an idle game, so dont expect to progress quickly or spend a lot of time in-game. This might be frustrating for people who like to spend hours in-game, but its perfect for someone who wants to have fun without wasting a bunch of time to keep up. There are a bunch of really cool special events throughout the year, that often introduce fun new mechanics and have great rewards. As others have said, the devs really do listen to feedback from their players, and the small but very dedicated community is super helpful. As far as free games go, this is probably the best design Ive seen. Players who pay for items really dont get light years ahead of everyone else, in our experience. FTP players can usually get everything a paying player can get, although it does take more time. Even the in-game items you buy usually feel like a really good value for the cost, especially the special ever promotions. Ive felt the least pressured to spend money in this game than we have in any other mobile game. That being said, its one of the few when we actually have spent money, because we really care about it and want to support the devs. Theres only two main issues we can think of: 1. Even after years, the app still doesnt have the full functionality of the web version. It feels like MouseHunt Lite, which is a shame since this game is made for mobile. Its gotten a lot more features over the years, but is still lacking. For instance, you cant access the forums, or send and receive gifts from friends. It can also be tricky to find everything that IS on the mobile app. Sometimes things feel hidden in the interface. 2. Some of the areas are getting to be too grindy. We realize its a difficult position for the devs: hardcore players who use the marketplace and super efficient strategies (you really can strategize your way to much quicker hunting) end up with far more resources and progress than the average casual player. This is probably an issue in every free mobile game, because since those big players provide most of the support, the devs have to keep them engaged. The downside is that this leads to areas that feel like they will take years to complete, doing the same thing, in order that the advanced players always have something to do. In the past it felt reasonable: even though the Acolyte Realm, Tribal Isles, and Living Garden areas were very difficult and long, they never felt like you would be doing the same thing forever. But its recently started to feel that way with especially the Queso Geyser and Floating Isles. The former just wasnt very interesting gameplay, and finishing it is based on extremely good luck. The latter is super fun gameplay, but at our current rate of progress it will take years to complete. Overall, a fantastic and surprisingly addictive game. We love how much we can get out of it with just small amounts of time, and we have met several good friends through the game. With comprehensive app updates and better balancing of the needs of the big players to the casual players, this would be a phenomenal game! Thank you for your work, devs, we love this game.
We have been playing since 2008. And we woke up to a login screen. We havent checked the email it could even be asking for in over a decade. So we guess after all this time its goodbye.
We really enjoy the game. Ive been playing for about a month and made good progress. The game said it needed to resync and when we refreshed it, it logged us out. Not knowing our username we clicked forgot password but it couldnt send the link. Long story short we lost all our progress and had to start over. Wish there was a better profile recovery process.
For as long as this app has existed, seems kinda sad how it cant keep our login credentials after an app update. In addition Im tired of force-restarting the app to fetch new data after minor game releases, why cant it just work? Game itself is still fun at least.
This game is fun at the beginning but then it slows way down and you find yourself hunting the same mice over and over again for months. It takes way to long to complete locations. It makes the game redundant, grindy and ultimately boring. Which is a shame cause it would be a fun game otherwise. We imagine the dems have forgotten what it is like to be a new player and can no longer sympathize with them. It would be interesting to see their player base. We imagine you either have lifelong players or two month players but lose everyone in between. This will be the second time our friends and we quit this game because it got grindy.
Absolutely nothing to this game so to speak Cheesy Graphics no pun intended All you have to do is push a button you dont see the mouse get trapped nothing deleting it off our phone now.
Ive been playing this game for twelve years and there must be a reason. Its fun, eventful, and its paced so you cant beat it in a day. The developers work their rumps off to make it the great game it is, with new content and events all the time. Im a faithful mousehunter. Come join us.
This is the most boring game Ive ever played…evvver.
The game sounds awesome, but it needs a help button for those who dont understand what to do, and more voiceover accessibility.
We like the game but we keep getting a glitch where we press hunt now and it tells us to retry launching the game and gives an error. When we relaunch it has used the cheese we had but has not shown that the trap was used. Its frustrating that the cheese is wasted because of a system glitch that has happened about 5 times to us today since installing the game.
It can be fun, except for the 15 minute wait between each catch. Been on the game for a couple days and its still 15 minutes. Theres absolutely nothing to do between the times but wait. Maybe buy a bit of cheese but thats about it. Could be a lot less time. Also, its ridiculous how we buy the best trap we can, which catches most types we come in contact with, yet wait the 15min, just to have the same mouse walk away or not get caught. Really? So we waste 200gp cheese, and get nothing for that 15 minutes. Or the next. Or the next……. Had to lower rating. Continued play (4 days) has shown us that speed doesnt get any better, navigating is impossible. We get notifications we get a free daily chest, yet, we look everywhere and cannot find it. Its the worst navigable app Ive ever seen. Its really ridiculous how Ive been catching low level mice with lower trap power repeatedly, then we upgrade everything, and use a higher bait (cheese), and yet, fail almost every time. Especially since the cheese Im using is a special cheese you have to earn from a mission. So again, wasting our cheese, so we have to grind for more. Ive been stuck on the same mission for 5 days because we cannot collect the other item we need to craft. Im going to quit because this game has little to no enjoyment. Its more of a job than a fun game.
Look we get the grind game concept but seriously, you will get the mouse maybe half the time if your lucky and while you are gone they sneak in and take all the good cheese you have paid for, not for us.
We want to like this game so much! We really do! We like the premise, we like the art. Its fun. But its problematic to say the least. It has fatally crashed at least 3 times that we have lost everything and had to start over. And you can only attack once every 15 minutes, which is actually just fine and makes sense. However!!! We have 3 towns and it only lets you attack once that counts in all the towns and wait. It would make sense to be allowed 1 attack in all of your towns then wait 15 minutes. But that is not how it is. Such a waste. We really liked the idea and the look.
Literally just keeps crashing. Poop.
Finally deleting this game after trying to play it for over a month. You basically get about two minutes of game play a couple times a day due to the wait time between hunts. And by hunt, the game means waiting a full 15 minutes to check your trap to try to catch one mouse. Needless to say, game progression grinds to a halt when your trying to collect items based on randomly catching certain mice. Ive been on the Mountain board for two weeks and havent even come close to hitting the objective. This also means that we havent even come close to unlocking even half of the game after a full month of play. It takes almost a week just to collect the items that will allow you to craft the cheese to catch the objective mouse. Then…nothing. Youll also see some inconsistencies in how many attempts are made when your game is idle. The game supposedly tries to catch mice every 15 minutes when youre away, but Ill come back to the game after an 8 hour wait and only have 8 attempts. Should be at least 32 because of basic math. Theres nowhere near enough content to make this game worth your time. We cant imagine the years of slogging to get to the point where youve opened up enough areas and trap components to make this game even remotely exciting. Oh yeah, and the bug where you login and try to hunt, and then the game deletes all your cheese and restarts is still an issue. We just lost 23 cheese and had zero idle attempts to show for any of it. That was basically the final straw. Wish we had the one hour of our life back that we spent playing this game over the last month.
After we logged it no longer lets us go past the setting up camp loading screen. We want to play this game but its not loading.
Loved it until we tried to upgrade the trap in the tutorial. It hung and restarted the tutorial when we went back in. We didnt mind restarting, and didnt upgrade the trap for a long time. When we upgraded the trap because we git high enough level to need it, the game crashed and never let us log in again. We see others with this exact complaint from several months ago, so im going to assume it will not get fixed.
But it just takes to long to get anything done. We would suggest being able to set up multiple traps in areas you unlocked and have the fifteen minutes waits between cheese replacement. We get idle but theres nothing to do while you wait especially just starting out.
Why do we need to wait 15 minutes between horns?? Seems like were supposed to get bored and delete the game.
It was a fun game at the beginning but after we advanced to more areas on the map the game started glitching. We would lose any cheese we bought. Making the game a lot more less fun.
This is a fun game and theres lots to doin game. But, after playing for a couple days we had three locations open items we had acquired and for some t reason the game reset. All our progress was lost and we would have had to start from the beginning. Very unstable but fun to play.
Please change the stupid horn time its so irrelevant. Why cant the whole game be like the tutorial or just a minute between sounding horns??? Fix this or we delete the game.
Enjoyed the casual game play. Really neat concept however they made an issue where iPhone users can no longer play the game with updated iPhones. And safari cant be used. If youre iPhone dont waste your effort trying to get this game.
We used to play this a while back in Facebook and so it should be easy to log in with that right? Well it's broken in the app and the website is broken on top of that. When we go to do our Facebook login the roundabout way on their separate website, it doesn't ever load it up. And we close and reopen and the website never loads. It's just broken right now. Who knows when it will get fixed.
Cant even play we keep restarting the game since it wont let us make an account and login and then it resets our game everytime it crashes and we gotta relogin. Very sad it looked like an intriguing game.
After going through the training at the meadow and learning the basics, we were sent to the town of Gnawnia. The first few hunts were successful, but after that we constantly had cheese stolen or did not attract a mouse. We were spending more for bait then we were able to make in caught mice. We were quickly burning through what money we were able to make with no sign the game would turn around. The constant frustration of not catching mice and losing money, quickly made the decision for us to delete the game. We never made it 24 hours with this game. We were immediately disappointed and frustrated enough with it to delete the game.
Fun game until you have to wait 15 minutes for each hunt. Not worth the time anymore after that point.
First 20 minutes ive played was alright, but then we got booted from the game and cant even log in now. So trying to get help here.
Got the tutorial portion done and was actually looking forward to playing this game but now every time we try to load it, we get stuck on the building your camp portion of the loading bar and therefore cant play.
We have been playing this game for a while now. We downloaded it onto our phone and it just randomly signs us off the app. We try to sign back in and we can not. We put forgot our email/password and then was sent to our email. Such a shame, we really enjoyed this game.
Its a fun little idle game, but the glitching is getting more and more frustrating. It feels like 1 in 5 rounds something [goes] wrong and we not only lose the mouse we were trying to catch but ALL of the particular cheese we had equipped. We had 15 pecan pecorino wipes out once this way all because we forgot to disarm the cheese before closing out of the app. If we have it disarmed then we dont lose anything, but then we dont get the bonus rounds either. It also seems like when it glitches then we dont get any of the bonuses either… Hopefully this gets addressed soon.
We just downloaded this today to try to play and we are not even able to get past the tutorial. When prompted to create an account, obviously the Facebook login is disabled for iOS13 and newer, so we went to the website to create an account. After account creation, we are not able to use our credentials to log in to the game, and keep getting an error that something went wrong and we need to relaunch. Really hoping to be able to change our review soon, Ive been looking forward to playing this since we downloaded earlier today.
As some other reviews have stated about issues with logging in. Our game kicks us out after upgrading to the second mouse trap from the tutorial. Then it brings us to the login page, which we havent made a game account yet cause Im still in the tutorial. And we cant log in to Facebook. So we retry the tutorial and it happens again. Been reset like 5 times now. Dont even waste time downloading this game. They cant even make a game thatll be playable through the tutorial.
Clicking the button to log in with Facebook does nothing, so… We guess we cant play on our phone :(.
Wont connect to Facebook and no other way to create an account. Any suggestions.
We are unable to log into our account using our link to Facebook through the app. We had to delete the app a few days ago and upon reinstalling it we cannot connect via Facebook. To clarify the button on the app is not working. Please help as we have been an avid player of this game for ten years.
We try to login to connect our Facebook account and it wont even open. It kind of glitches saying connecting… But never opens anything. When playing on our laptop it wont let us navigate anywhere.
Used to love this game. Went to play today but it wont let us use facebook to login and thats how we always logged in. How can we play if the connect to facebook button doesnt work.
We love this game, you might even call us addicted to it, and Ive spent quite a bit of money on SuperBrie+, which is why Im super disappointed that we havent been able to log into the game (log in with Facebook) since we had to change our password several days ago. We cant find any option to message the devs on their Facebook game page or report an issue through the app so we have no other option but to post a review and hope we get some kind of answer to help us clear up this annoying issue. We have no problem logging on on our laptop but obviously a big part of the game is being able to sound the horn every 15 minutes, for which the app is almost required.
We cant use the app at all, it gets stuck on locating camp and never goes further no matter what we do.
We have been playing this game on and off for almost 10 years and thats the great thing about this game their is so much to do and It takes time to do it but you can just play whenever, and this app makes it even easier to know when to hunt.
Ive been a player for 9 years. This game has grown so much. Thank you for making this a high quality product. Theres so much to do and its such a simple concept.
Hard to select some options. We think it's the ios 13.
This game is great for those who dont have a ton of time to invest in a game. It is mainly a passive play game. While you can donate for special bait, it is not a necessity as the bait can be obtained though the daily gift chest (on day 5) or through the marketplace. The golden shield (gotten through donating or buying a supply kit through Kings Arms or the kit through the marketplace) adds 5 luck to your setup, but there are many charms that add more than that. Updates are often (and the developers listen to their players). The coolest new feature is that we can now see multiple pages of hunting status and be able to favorite mice on the app. We cant wait to be able to see the hunters crowns on a part of the app (in order of how many mice caught & not just grouped by area).
10+ years of playing and enjoy the game. App needs bug fixes though. When clicking on greyed out mice we havent caught yet to read up about them, a loading message comes up and the game freezes resulting in a force close as your only option. Some other areas do a similar thing. Fix those and the game should be running smoothly to everyones liking.
Trying to purchase cheese with in game currency and not able to. Please fix.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.185.3
- Size: 229.33 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: HitGrab Inc.
Last updated: 19th January 2026 | Genre: Adventure, Utilities | Developer: HitGrab Inc.