Mice and Mystics

Mice and Mystics is a fantasy-themed dungeon crawling cooperative board game designed by Jerry Hawthorne and published by Plaid Hat Games in 2012. In the games, the players represent fantasy characters transformed into anthropomorphic mice, on a quest to defeat an evil witch. The game has been praised for its original theme, with player's characters using buttons and needles instead of shields and swords, and fighting rat warriors and cats instead of goblins and dragons. It has also received positive reviews because of its innovative idea to use a storybook as gameplay map.

Awards

 * 2013 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork/Presentation Nominee
 * 2013 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork/Presentation Winner
 * 2013 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee
 * 2013 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Game Nominee
 * 2013 UK Games Expo Best Boardgame Nominee
 * 2013 UK Games Expo Best Boardgame Winner
 * 2014 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee
 * 2014 Lys Passioné Finalist

Reception
Since its release in 2011, the game has been consistently ranked in around Top 350 position of the most popular wargames on BoardGameGeek.

In a review of Mice and Mystics in Black Gate, Andrew Zimmerman Jones said "For someone who has been looking for a good entry-level roleplaying game for his oldest son, this definitely caught my eye."

Adaptation
In October 2018, DreamWorks Animation acquired the rights to the role-playing game. A feature film is in development. Alexandre Aja, long-time horror film director, will be directing and writing the film's script along with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick. Vertigo Entertainment's Roy Lee and Jon Berg are producing.