Steal a Cheese Beginner Guide: Your First Mouse

1. Pick up cheese and follow RUN HOME

Steal a Cheese [From Cats] sends your mouse into cat territory to recover cheese. The developer describes sneaking past sleeping cats and racing back to the mousehole. Begin with a nearby cheese and a return route you can recognize before reaching for a more distant target.

In reviewed gameplay, collecting the cheese triggers GOT IT! and RUN HOME. You are still on the escape leg at this point. Turn toward home and keep the return route clear of cats. The on-screen prompt for your device takes priority over any PC or mobile control shown in a recording.

2. Finish the return and check your hotbar

The reviewed successful return produces STOLEN! and In your hotbar. Check for that completion message and the cheese item before moving to the next step. Picking up a cheese and successfully returning it are separate milestones.

If you arrive home with no cheese available, first check whether the return completed and whether you selected the recovered item. The footage does not establish a universal caught penalty, so this guide does not promise that every failed raid preserves your haul.

3. Put the cheese in a base slot

Select the recovered cheese from your hotbar, approach a vacant circle in your base and use Place. A reviewed example shows Aged Parmesan held beside a TAP Place prompt. Once placed, inspect the item for its ripening countdown.

Training is a useful activity while a timer runs. Keep the next raid manageable for your current speed and return to inspect the cheese when it is ready. Exact starting durations vary by item and remain unverified here.

4. Open a ready cheese and deploy its mouse

The game advertises ripening cheese to unwrap rare finds and add mice to your crew. Reviewed footage shows an Open prompt on cheese at the base and a Deploy step for the revealed mouse. Finish those interactions instead of assuming the initial return automatically adds an earning mouse.

1. Recover a cheese and finish the run home.
2. Select it from your hotbar and place it at your base.
3. Read its timer and return when ready.
4. Open it, inspect the mouse and deploy it.
5. Check the income label and collect stored earnings at the Cheese Bin.