Sharpen your beaks! Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! hatches November 7th on Steam

The Wild Gentlemen :

Budapest, Hungary, October 3, 2024 — Prune your feathers and polish your weapons as you prepare to go where no fowl has gone before: “point-and-cluck” detective game Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! is coming to Steam on November 7th! And that’s not all: developer The Wild Gentlemen is excited to announce that the PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Nintendo Switch™ and Xbox Series X|S versions of this film noir adventure will be flying the nest soon after…

Watch the release date reveal trailer below: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wYQxx6nvOk

Sonny Featherland and Marty MacChicken are back at it again, ready to stick their beaks where they don’t belong — although this time their mission might bring them more than just a few ruffled feathers. On November 7th, PC players can spread their wings and join the seasoned Chicken Police on what just might be their most harrowing case yet as they head to the slums of Clawville, a dynamic city where different animal species live together in harmony. The horrors that await them in the Hive where insects are forced to live in horrible conditions, however, say otherwise...

Explore the tough streets of Clawville and interrogate over 30 characters in more than 35 locations. Just make sure to keep your wits about you while you peck through lies to avoid getting scrambled. And remember: everybody’s got an angle in this town and if something smells fishy, it probably is. 

With the series’ signature blend of dark humor, hard-boiled noir atmosphere, and gripping plot, Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! will keep you on your toes as you navigate Clawville's dangerous underbelly, whether you’ve played the first game or not. This time around, you can switch between the original black and white color palette and the new technicolor mode whenever you like! 

Following the PC launch, Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! will also be roosting on PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, the Nintendo Switch™ and Xbox Series X|S allowing console players to try their hand at dismantling one of Clawville’s most terrifying conspiracies as well. 

Bálint Bánk Varga, co-founder of The Wild Gentlemen, said, “We’re very happy to confirm that Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! will be coming to consoles soon after the PC release! We’re working hard to make sure that our fans who played Chicken Police: Paint it RED! on console don’t have to wait much longer before they too can solve the mystery of the Hive.”

Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! launches on Steam on November 7th. Players can wishlist the game on Steam now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2362090/Chicken_Police_Into_the_Hive/. 

Press and creators looking to check out or review the game on PC or console can contact Game Drive. 

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Related Links
Official website: https://chickenpolice.com/
Steam Store Page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2362090/Chicken_Police_Into_the_Hive
Press kit:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/q9k4y5phbjpdrwv/AAAnu7yFvaLXKDhJF185PWNka?dl=0
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/r4t4zAz
X: @ChickenPoliceG
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@twgdevstudio
Bluesky: chickenpolice

About Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
Solve a murder mystery in this character-driven film noir detective adventure by gathering clues and interrogating suspects. Explore at least 35 locations across Clawville and meet more than 30 fully dubbed characters – some friendlier than others and 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 compelling 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 diverse games set in the World of Wilderness — which includes cozy café management simulator Zipp’s Café and the upcoming games WILD Tactics and Moses & Plato - Last Train to Clawville — 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 California-based publishing and investing 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/. 

Press Contact
Jessica de Haan (Game Drive)
Public Relations Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
E-mail: [email protected]

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