Watch the trailer here and prepare for a 2026 launch on PC and Mobile!
Milan, Italy, May 8th 2025: Independent studio We Are Muesli has announced In Their Shoes, a new slice-of-life mumblecore narrative game available to wishlist now on Steam. Launching on PC and mobile in 2026, the game is set in present-day Milan and explores the everyday lives of seven individuals through 49 short, interactive stories called “Moments.” The project has already secured a nomination for A MAZE. 2025 independent and arthouse games awards in Berlin, setting itself up as one to keep an eye on in the genre.
From intimate conversations to silent reflections, each Moment captures a fleeting yet meaningful situation, exploring each character’s lived experience, sorting through their tangled thoughts and dictating their reactions. Players are encouraged to make small decisions, mostly at their own pace, with some real-time interactions when time sensitive activities occur, that reveal character, context, and connection. What emerges is not one story, but many, told through shifting perspectives and grounded in the texture of ordinary life.
In Their Shoes unfolds like a fragmented diary. Players can piece the timeline together, discover 26 hidden biographical details for each character, and let the city itself become part of the narrative, all set to a rich, combinatory lo-fi soundtrack and detailed, Intimistic visuals.
Key Features:
- 49 playable Moments, each a self-contained story that together combine to create an extraordinary puzzle
- 7 characters, each with a distinct voice and rhythm, discover their personalities, identities, and their place in Milan
- Real-time dialogue combined with normal choices to direct the story, and timed choices in high pressure Moments
- Unlock an original soundtrack as you keep playing, with each story revealing new tracks, distinct ambiences and acoustic moods, all created by Nicolò Sala.
“In Their Shoes is not about grand narratives or heroic arcs. It’s about the way people live, think, relate, and get through the day, inspired by a city very close to our hearts, Milan,” share Claudia Molinari and Matteo Pozzi, Game Directors at We Are Muesli. “We wanted to make something honest and grounded, where even the smallest gesture has weight, and where you are made to pause and reflect about your actions and choices, about the feelings of each individual, how they perceive themselves, how they’re treated by others, and how they should ultimately react to the little big problems that affect them, as they navigate the relationships and the city around them.”
In Their Shoes is coming to PC and Mobile in 2026! Why not wishlist the game on Steam today, join the Discord and follow the studio on Instagram?
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About We Are Muesli:
We Are Muesli is an independent and unconventional game development studio founded in 2013 and based in Milan, Italy. Known for their award winning art and narrative projects rooted in culture and history, the studio’s previous works include the multi award winning Visual Novels like CAVE! CAVE! DEUS VIDET. and Venti Mesi, the abstract local co-op Siheyuan, as well as Escape Rooms Ludmilla, Ventiquattro Elle, and other artistic projects presented at international festivals and institutions worldwide.
With In Their Shoes, the studio continues its tradition of blending storytelling with social reflection, this time releasing the title as a videogame project for PC and Mobile. In Their Shoes invites players to engage with identity, routine, and emotion not through spectacle, but through presence, the quiet, human kind that usually slips by unnoticed.
Want to know more? Visit the website here: https://wearemuesli.it/