Wasteland is getting a lot more portable. Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed arrives on iOS and Android on September 16 for $15.99, published by the newly renamed THQ Nordic Mobile with the port handled by Snapshot Games.
The important word in that sentence is the price. This is a premium, one-time purchase - the full 2024 remake of Warren Spector's 2010 Wii game, not a re-cut free-to-play version with an energy meter and a paint-thinner battle pass. For a licensed Disney platformer landing on mobile storefronts in 2026, that is not the default outcome, and it is worth noting up front.
What Rebrushed actually is
Epic Mickey has always been a strange thing to explain. Mickey Mouse falls into Wasteland, a dilapidated world where Disney's forgotten and retired characters live - most notably Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the character Walt Disney lost the rights to in 1928 and spent decades trying to get back. Mickey arrives carrying a magic paintbrush, and the entire game runs on a two-verb system: paint restores things, thinner erases them.
Almost every problem in the game can be solved either way, and the game quietly remembers which one you reached for. Erase a platform to open a shortcut and you have also erased whoever was standing on it. It is a morality system built into the movement verbs rather than a dialogue wheel, and it is still one of the more interesting things a big licensed platformer has attempted.
Rebrushed, developed by Purple Lamp and released in 2024, rebuilt all of that from the ground up: modern visuals, an overhauled camera, a proper dash and spin, quality-of-life fixes across the board, and controls that no longer assume you are waving a Wii Remote at your television.
Built for touchscreens
THQ Nordic Mobile describes the port as fully optimised for phones and tablets rather than a straight compile, which for this game specifically is the whole ballgame. Epic Mickey's core loop is aiming a stream of paint or thinner at a target while moving, and that is exactly the kind of dual-stick-plus-trigger action that mobile ports usually mangle. Snapshot Games has reworked the interface around touch input; the September launch will be the test of whether it holds up on a 6-inch screen.
The one thing worth flagging: at the time of writing, neither the App Store nor Google Play listing spells out external controller support. If you were planning to pair a controller and treat this as a console game in your pocket, wait for confirmation before you buy.
THQ Nordic Mobile, formerly HandyGames
The publisher name is new. HandyGames - the German studio and publisher that has been part of THQ Nordic's group since 2018, and which shipped everything from Airhead to Townsmen - rebranded to THQ Nordic Mobile at the same August 7 showcase where the Epic Mickey date was announced.
It reads as a straightforward consolidation of branding, but the timing alongside a $15.99 premium Disney port suggests the mandate is bringing THQ Nordic's console and PC catalogue to phones as full-price games rather than building free-to-play originals. That is a narrower business than most mobile publishers run, and a considerably more player-friendly one.
The details
Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed launches September 16 on the App Store and Google Play for $15.99. It is already available on PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, so if you would rather play it on a screen bigger than your hand, that option has been there since 2024.
