Budapest, Hungary, January 10, 2024 — Hold your horses just a little longer, for the very first Steam demo of Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! will be available to download and play during the next Steam Next Fest! Will we see you horsing around — wait, wrong franchise — will you be counting your chickens during this demo?
Check out the gameplay reveal trailer for a reminder of what’s to come:
https://youtu.be/lCGPFs1mL9o
Can’t wait to find out more about the game’s mystery? Then have a look at the new extended announcement trailer that includes exclusive dev comments: https://youtu.be/K3NBVGcPQ30
Wishlist the game on Steam in advance:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2362090/Chicken_Police_Into_the_Hive
The Wild Gentlemen announces that Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! is soon receiving its first public demo on Steam. Anybody looking forward to getting their paws dirty while righting the wrongs in Clawville can get a taste of what’s to come during this year’s first Steam Next Fest, which takes place from February 5th to February 12th.
In this new stand-alone chapter of the buddy cop noir series Chicken Police, the famous (or infamous, depending on who you’re talking to) detectives Sonny Featherland and Marty MacChicken dive into their next case. This time their investigation leads them into the Hive! Investigate, analyze, question, drink, and shoot your way through this new adventure, told via visual novel-style storytelling and point-and-cluck detective gameplay.
The game is expected to launch on PC in 2024. Wishlist the game on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2362090/Chicken_Police_Into_the_Hive/
More information from the developer side of things can be read in the latest blog post:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2362090/view/3882730411611524188
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About Chicken Police
Solve a murder mystery and a large scale conspiracy in this character-driven film noir detective adventure by gathering clues and interrogating suspects. While freely exploring Clawville and its 35+ locations, you will meet more than 30 fully dubbed characters, each with their role to play in this dramatic tale of murder, betrayal, love, and loss. Besides the main story, there will be a myriad of side quests, pathways, and opportunities to explore in Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!, which was one of the 2023 finalists for Indie X.
When Chicken Police: Paint it RED! launched in 2020, the narrative noir adventure was lauded by the press and received many awards for its complex interrogation system, mystery-solving detective gameplay, and visual style consisting of artistic photo manipulation and lifelike 3D backgrounds. It became one of Metacritic’s best 100 PC Games that year, and IGN Japan dubbed it “Game Animal Of The Year” (GAOTY). In 2021, it won the awards for Best Adventure Game at the Chainsaw Game & Music Festival and Excellence in Audio at the Spring 2021 edition of DevGamm!
About The Wild Gentlemen
The Wild Gentlemen is the independent game studio behind Chicken Police: Paint it RED! — the award-winning buddy cop noir adventure set in the World of Wilderness — and is currently working on the sequel Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!. The team is based in Hungary and consists of nearly twenty core members, some of whom have worked on games like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Call of Duty: WWII, Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, the Crysis series, Haegemonia: Legions of Iron, and Ryse: Son of Rome. Alongside the games in the World of Wilderness, which now also includes cosy café management simulator Zipp’s Café, The Wild Gentlemen is working on projects like the immersive disco-punk space-horror RetroSpace.
For more information, visit https://thewildgentlemen.com/.
About JoyStick Ventures
Joystick Ventures is a Sherman Oaks-based investing and publishing company whose main goal is to encourage indie developers to stay honest and promote experimentation to push the limits of game design across all genres, styles, and geographies. They are most known for their 2022 release, Lost in Play, which has sold more than 100,000 copies.
For more information, visit https://www.joystickventures.com/.
Related Links
Steam Store:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2362090/Chicken_Police_Into_the_Hive
Press kit:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/q9k4y5phbjpdrwv/AAAnu7yFvaLXKDhJF185PWNka?dl=0
Official website: https://chickenpolice.com/
Press Contact
Bram van Lith (Game Drive)
Public Relations Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
E-mail: bram@game-drive.nl
Twitter: @ChickenPoliceG
Bluesky: chickenpolice