Salamanca, Spain/Giebelstadt, Germany, July 6th, 2023:
Summer has just started and Winter is still a few months away, but today is the time to get SCARF for your Xbox or PlayStation! Embark on an atmospheric and emotional journey with your trusty companion, a dragon-shaped scarf, and find out what it means to be a hero.
What does it mean to be a hero? Is it to fulfill your destiny or is it to rebel against it? Scarf is an exciting single-player 3D puzzle platformer that blends the idyllic reflectiveness of a walking simulator with a 3D platform game to offer an allegorical journey through three beautiful worlds. Will you discover their secrets? And at what price?
Now, kick back, relax, and experience a rich world with unexpectedly deep narrative lore. All of this is wrapped in a peaceful, family-friendly package.
Always remember that you are never alone
As soon as you are born into the gorgeous world of SCARF, you are accompanied by a magical creature that has the ability to shape-shift. As a seemingly ordinary scarf, it wraps around your fragile avatar. It needs your help, finding its home and its mother. Follow the souls who stole the keys to the portal back home. During your adventures in SCARF, you will have to solve all kinds of increasingly complex puzzles, overcome daunting obstacles and discover gorgeous new places by using a wide variety of interesting mechanics. Do not fear the puzzles and challenges as the game mechanics are quite forgiving. Take your time, ease your breath, and immerse in this wild world.
Features:
- A journey for all ages with multiple narrative levels
- Beautiful scenarios
- A stunning art style
- A mysterious polymorphic scarf in the shape of a dragon
- An alternate ending awaits players who explore every nook and cranny of the world
- Adaptive orchestral music
- A magical world with a legendary mythology
- Exploration, puzzles, and platforms that make for an adventure worth remembering
SCARF is available now for $9.99/€9.99 on PlayStation and Xbox. It has previously only been available on PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG. For more information, follow @Handy_Games on Twitter or join the community on Discord, and check out the official SCARF website.
About Uprising Studios:
Uprising Studios is a small game developer from Spain, founded in 2017. SCARF is not only the first game of the magnificent seven people from Salamanca but also their dream of making a wholesome, peaceful platformer coming true.
HandyGames™ is part of the THQ Nordic Family and Embracer Group. We operate as an international indie games publisher and developer for small and medium-sized projects for a global community of gamers.
Games are our passion. Since our founding at the turn of the millennium, we have been steadily evolving our company and portfolio to publish and produce award-winning titles for cutting-edge consoles, PC, and VR, as well as premium mobile games from great teams around the world.
We are proud of our ever-growing and colorful portfolio - from hilarious games for the whole family to deep and sometimes dark topics presented in an interactive format. Games are and always will be entertainment media, but we firmly believe they are capable of much more.
HandyGames is at home in beautiful Giebelstadt in Northern Bavaria, close to the Franconian university and city of Würzburg and a proud part of the German and European gaming scene. Always on track towards lasting growth, we have significantly expanded our office space to create room for up to 120 colleagues and look forward to continuing to successfully shape the future of the international games industry as a sustainable employer.
As a team, we stand united against any form of discrimination. Regardless of sexual, cultural, or ethnic identity, we try to ensure that everyone feels welcome at HandyGames. It is very important to us to help new colleagues who move to our beautiful Franconian home to find like-minded interest groups, even outside their work environment. No matter who you are, you're part of the family and we got your back.