Caligari Video games will launch its hand-drawn point-and-click journey recreation Whateverland on Swap, the studio confirmed at this time. A launch is deliberate for late 2022.
“We love the renaissance period of level and click on adventures and wish to convey again the sensation these video games gave us to our viewers,” mentioned narrative designer, producer, and studio co-founder Eli Mikeladze. “We’re glad we bought such nice help from followers of The Nice Maybe and with our Kickstarter and might’t wait to welcome them to the bizarre world of Whateverland.”
Right here’s an summary of the sport with extra info:
Whateverland, a world the place morally gray souls are banished and reworked in a darkly comical approach into varieties befitting their souls’ egocentric needs, finally ends up being the right place for skilled thief Vincent. Stranded on this bizarre place, Vincent should search an escape out of a makeshift society full of individuals nobody would ever (willingly) get a drink with alongside a newfound–and not-so-helpful–sidekick Nick.
Uncover new puzzles, storylines, and endings with nonlinear development. Branching narratives and a morality system stretch past the bounds of excellent and evil with numerous gray to play with. Vincent’s expertise as a thief may help get what he wants or needs, however at a probably steep value. Vincent’s decisions lead him down completely different paths containing greater than 20 mini-games, with not all of them discoverable on a single playthrough.
Lead a workforce of small bug-like creatures that spawned from burned books, known as the Bookashes, every bearing completely different skills in battle to attain a purpose earlier than the opposite workforce in Bell and Bones, an easy-to-learn hexagonal grid technique recreation that’s widespread on this planet of Whateverland. Due to the Kickstarter’s reaching its stretch purpose, followers who can’t get sufficient of this game-within-a-game can get pleasure from a standalone model at a later date.
The Whateverland expertise combines various acquainted influences, together with point-and-click journey classics and the very best titles from the style’s trendy revival, with solely hand-drawn artwork impressed by masters of the weird similar to Tim Burton. Expertise every storyline and mini-game with fully-voiced English language dialogue, instructed to the sound of an unique jazz and polka impressed soundtrack carried out and recorded by a sextet.
We even have the next trailer:
Whateverland will characteristic English language voice performing and English, Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese language (Simplified) language textual content with extra languages to come back.
Supply: Caligari Video games PR