The two play off of each other nicely – Joey is blatantly unaware of Alternia’s many confusing social norms, causing her to blunder into awkward situations constantly, and Xefros is forced to overcome his cowardice to help her out. HIVESWAP is ostensibly a point n’ click adventure, following the heroine Joey as she navigates the colourful and terrifying environs of Alternia, aided by the wimpy but charming Xefros – a “lowblooded” troll who is all too aware of his place at the bottom of the ladder. It’s a fairly simple premise, right? Xefros speaks for all of us. HIVESWAP takes place in a parallel dimension, which shares Homestuck‘s established world but isn’t constrained by what’s already happened in the comic, instead telling a new story which sees a human girl transported to the alien world of Alternia, populated by trolls forced into a brutal caste system based on the colour of their blood. Homestuck is absurdly long and complex, featuring a revolving cast of regular characters, over 800,000 words, and a multi-media approach to storytelling that uses static images, gifs and flash animation. HIVESWAP is the crowd-funded game adaptation of Homestuck, an MS Paint Adventures webcomic created by Andrew Hussie in 2009. I’m coming into this review as somebody who’s basically just dipped their toes into Andrew Hussie’s mad brain-child thanks to a recommendation from my partner, so what I’m really looking to discern here is how effectively the source material translates into the gaming medium, and whether it makes any sense to anybody who hasn’t been exposed to it before. So… what is it? I’ll offer as brief a primer as I can, based on my barely functional working knowledge of the Homestuck lore. Over three years later, fans finally have the second part of the story, and the strange legacy of “ Homestuck: The Video Game” continues. A huge chunk of that money vanished in suspicious circumstances (through no fault of the people running the campaign, but that’s a whole ‘nother rabbit hole), along with much of the original vision for the game. HIVESWAP is © What Pumpkin Games, Inc.HIVESWAP‘s first act was released in 2017, years after an extremely successful Kickstarter campaign that raised almost two and a half million dollars. Haven’t read Homestuck? That’s fine! This game is set in 1994! Homestuck hasn’t even been invented yet!
Continue your save from chapter to chapter, then from game to game, to carry your story, choices, friendships and frenemies across them all-then do it again! Once released, HIVESWAP and Hauntswitch will be playable in either order.
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HIVESWAP: Act 1 is the first of a four-part series set in Andrew Hussie’s Homestuck universe, with a companion series, Hauntswitch, to follow. Play as XEFROS TRITOH, ALIEN REBEL, wait. Play as JUDE HARLEY, BIZARRELY, her kid brother, trapped in his treehouse. Play as JOEY CLAIRE, EXTRAORDINAIRE, a teen trapped in her room *and* in 1994. Also featuring at least one pseudo-revolutionary garage rock duo, with regrets of their own. Come take a look!Īn eclectic, ambitious, genre-spanning soundtrack, featuring contributions from Undertale’s Toby Fox and, regrettably, at least one third-wave ska song. The world of HIVESWAP is beautiful and alive, from its hyper-detailed environments to its gorgeous fully-rendered animations. Strange homes to explore, every room brimming with secrets. Learn about the characters by exploring their homes! But like, in a good way! No audio logs split up and scattered around - GUARANTEED. Spend hours trying everything on everything, if you want to - but not because you have to. HIVESWAP has unique responses for everything you can try. No dream-logic solutions, no hearing the same “those items don’t work together” message over and over. As fun and well-paced as you generously remember them being. That's for, uh, cowards.įirst things first. But where did they come from? How are you supposed to deal with this? Well, certainly not by cowering in your room. You're going to have to get yourself out of this.
Your brother's trapped in his treehouse, so he’s not gonna be much help. Monsters in the hall, beating on your door. Play as Joey Claire, a puzzle-solving teen snatched out of her time (1994) and place (Earth) and stranded on a hostile alien planet on the brink of rebellion. Also Available on GOG.com: HIVESWAP: Act 1 Soundtrack EditionĪ hand-drawn tribute to hilarious '90s adventure games (with none of the accompanying frustration).
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