Feathered sleuths wanted for Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! demo!

The Wild Gentlemen :

Budapest, Hungary, February 1, 2024 — For the first time since its announcement, Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! is available for everyone to play with a demo that will also be included in the first Steam Next Fest of 2024. Join Sonny and Marty at the beginning of their next adventure! 

Check out the new Steam Next Fest demo trailer here:
https://youtu.be/MjTIFaP7JnQ

Download the game on Steam now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2362090/Chicken_Police_Into_the_Hive

It’s time to dig your claws (or paws, or wings — we don’t discriminate) into the new demo for Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!. In this point-and-cluck detective adventure, you’ll follow the legendary Chicken Police as they descend into the darkest depths of society in pursuit of a potentially world-shattering conspiracy. Here in the Hive, insects are forced to live in horrifying conditions, though the situation might be worse than expected. Can you solve one of Clawville’s biggest mysteries and come out (mostly) unscathed? Find out if you’ve got what it takes in the demo, now available to download!

In the prequel, Chicken Police: Paint it RED!, Sonny Featherland and Marty MacChicken solved their supposed final case before Sonny’s retirement. Since things never go quite as planned, Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! finds our favorite roosters in a bigger predicament than ever before — one that starts with a suspicious murder case. No prior experience with the series is necessary to soak up the game’s grim story, gritty atmosphere, and absurd humor, all wrapped up in a mystery-solving investigation inspired by point-and-click adventures and visual novels. With more than thirty fleshed-out characters to interrogate each with their own agenda, cracking this egg will be easier said than done…

The game is expected to launch on PC in 2024. Download the demo and wishlist the game on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2362090/Chicken_Police_Into_the_Hive/

Plunge into feathery noir! What are you waiting for? It’s time to investigate the demo on Steam!

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About Chicken Police
Solve a murder mystery 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 own 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
Presskit:
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: [email protected]
Twitter: @ChickenPoliceG
Bluesky: chickenpolice