Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! is now available via Steam

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Press release:
Budapest, Hungary, November 7, 2024.
The Sherman Oaks-based (CA, the US) indie games publisher Joystick Ventures and Budapest-based (Hungary) indie games developer The Wild Gentlemen, are today super excited and happy to announce that their Point-and-cluck detective game “Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!” is now available for PC via Steam.

Join Sonny Featherland and Marty MacChicken as they put their feathers on the line in this tale of love, loss, and betrayal. Find out now if they can make their way into the depths of society to quell a world-shattering conspiracy and make it back out alive…!

You can now step into the well-worn talons of the Chicken Police as they pick up the fight against crime once more in Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!. Enjoy an artistic, hand-crafted homage to the film noir genre as you make your way through Clawville — the most crippled city in the ‘World of Wilderness’, a carefully created world where anthropomorphic animals reign supreme. To deliver this deep and thrilling story, the game contains more than 12 hours of voice-over performed by a stellar cast, and includes voices from Baldur’s Gate 3, The Witcher series, Cyberpunk 2077 and many more.

Follow your leads across 35+ different locations and learn more about the Wilderness’ tumultuous history as you meet a whole cast of colorful (at least, if you’re playing in the new technicolor mode) characters, each with their own role to play in this mind-blowing conspiracy. Don’t forget to pay attention to what they have to say — you’ll have to interrogate some of them, and only by brooding on the right question at the right time can you crack this hard-egg of a case wide open.

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.
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! screenshot

Developer The Wild Gentlemen is excited to release Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! and introduce the Chicken Police’s new adventure. Co-founder Bálint Bánk Varga said, “We’ve worked long and hard to make this game everything that it is, filled to the brim with dark humor, grim vibes, and a mystery that’ll make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. We’re hoping that both existing fans and newcomers to the series will enjoy solving this crime together with Sonny and Marty.”

A console version of Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! will be coming to PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, the Nintendo Switch™ and Xbox Series X|S later.

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 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 Venture
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