Hidden Folks by no means wanted devices to be musical. This week, the hidden object sketchbook goes On Tour, bringing its quirky vocals to muddy festivals, basement discos and the studio ground. It’s free, too, together with all of Hidden Folks’ previously-released DLC – at the price of making the charming monochrome pixel-hunt a bit pricier for newcomers.
Hidden Folks, as per John Walker’s review, is “a calm, calming and pleasingly silly game” about recognizing curiosities throughout bustling hand-drawn setpieces. A extra lived-in Where’s Wally picturebook with fewer sweaters. Developer Adriaan De Jonge and co have now expanded these pages with On Tour, a toe-tapping new set of ranges to poke and prod at.
As you’d guess, On Tour brings a extra musical aptitude to Hidden Folks. The replace’s six new areas span from open-air festivals and packed phases to extra intimate recording studios – all backed by a musical mouth-sounds belted out by the devs.
If you’ve already picked up Hidden Folks, On Tour’s new phases are free. Granted, so is each different piece of DLC launched as far as of this week’s replace. De Jong admitted that the DLC mannequin was all the time a considerably uneasy match for his or her a capella curiosity, and has rolled again each paid add-on – save for a DLC compilation of 71 Hidden Folks Mouth Sounds.
“A couple of months after the release of the Beach DLC, we agreed that the pricing model we slid into (a base game with DLCs) didn’t feel right,” he defined in a Steam Announcement final week. “After much discussion and consideration, we decided that we want to come back and unify all areas into a single ‘Hidden Folks’ purchase.”
All these lip-smacking new doodles didn’t come out of skinny air, thoughts. To stability out the free presents, Hidden Folks has had a small price-hike throughout all platforms for brand new gamers – bringing the brand new cost-of-entry to £11/€12/$13 on Steam and Itch.io.
