Shochiku Games To Publish Hela: Of Mice & Magic In Japan On December 1
Shochiku Games, the game business office Shochiku set up in June 2024, is staking part of its catalog on a title that took Most Entertaining and Most Wholesome at gamescom 2025 and has already passed 1 million wishlist registrations worldwide.
Key Facts
- Shochiku Games announced on September 28, 2026 that it will publish Hela: of Mice & Magic in Japan, with the Japanese title set as Hela: Chiisana Nezumi to Mahou no Mori.
- Hela: Chiisana Nezumi to Mahou no Mori is scheduled for release on December 1, 2026 for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.
- Hela: Chiisana Nezumi to Mahou no Mori costs 3,500 yen for the download version and 4,400 yen for the packaged version, both tax included.
- Hela: Chiisana Nezumi to Mahou no Mori supports online multiplayer for up to four players, local two-player split-screen, and solo play.
- Hela: Chiisana Nezumi to Mahou no Mori has surpassed 1 million wishlist registrations worldwide and won Most Entertaining and Most Wholesome at gamescom 2025.
Reporting from 2 sources: 4Gamer.net, Game Spark.
Shochiku Games will handle Japanese publishing for Hela: of Mice & Magic, the open-world adventure in development at Windup Games, and the Japanese title is set as Hela: Chiisana Nezumi to Mahou no Mori. The release date is December 1, 2026. Platforms named across the cluster are Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. Players take the role of a small mouse crossing a Nordic natural world to save a wizard who has fallen ill, using a magic frog backpack to hook onto branches and glide. Materials gathered in the field go into magic potions that help the animals of the forest. The game supports solo play, local two-player split-screen, and online multiplayer for up to four players. Preorders for the PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2 packaged versions are open. The download version costs 3,500 yen and the packaged version 4,400 yen, both with tax included.
Shochiku Games is not the only party on the publishing side. The Japanese rollout is being handled in collaboration with Knights Peak, which is named alongside Shochiku Games in the announcement of the December 1 release.
Windup Games, the studio behind the game, is the development team that worked on the Unravel series, the cooperative puzzle action games built around a yarn character. Hela is their first new title in about eight years. The game appeared at gamescom 2025 in Germany, where it took two awards, Most Entertaining and Most Wholesome, and has since passed 1 million wishlist registrations worldwide.
Preorders for the packaged PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2 editions have started at participating retailers. Retail listings show the PS5 packaged edition at 3,778 yen and the Switch 2 packaged edition at 3,822 yen, prices and stock given as of the time of the article.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.