Press release:
China and France – May 26th, 2021.
The indie games publisher Pixmain and independent animation and development studio Darjeeling, today announced with great pride and joy that their charming puzzler “Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective” is coming to PC via Steam on June 22nd, 2021, followed by Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS devices in summer 2021.
The game is based on the global hit comic book series ‘Pierre the Maze Detective’ by Japanese artis t Hirofumi Kamigaki and illustration studio IC4DESIGN. Players will take the role of dashing young detective Pierre, explore the intricate hand-drawn worlds, and track down the elusive villain Mr X to save the day.
Stop, thief! Mr X has stolen the magical Maze Stone from Opera City’s museum, but fear not – Pierre is hot on his trail. The chase will take players through a series of incredibly detailed scenes, each loaded with eccentric characters, animations and intriguing interactions. The chilled and charming game experience features a variety of lovingly hand-crafted locations, where players will be tasked to find their way out of a maze, complete minigames and find hidden objects and clues to progress.
Each level of Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective is based on a hand-drawn picture by Hirofumi Kamigaki and the Japan-based illustration studio IC4DESIGN, brought to life by the animators at Darjeeling in France. The game is a passion project born from the Darjeeling team’s love of the book series, and has already collected awards including the IndieCade 2020 Visual Design award and the Game Connection Asia 2020 Best Quality of Art award.
Wishlist Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective on Steam. For all the latest updates visit the official game website and follow the game on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Discord.
About Darjeeling:
We craft films, animation and video-games.
About Pixmain:
We are Pixmain, a new indie game publisher established in 2020. We focus on games with creative and engaging gameplay, art and music, and theme and story, without limitations to genre, platform, and region.
We thrive to discover the hidden gems in game and we wish to make more high-quality games accessible to the global gamers.
We are currently working closely with developers and studios to do our best to bring our game and our vision to you; and we hope that you can share the same vision and passion with us.
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Jonas “O.J” Ek
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @TheGamingGround
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