Heave Ho
Heave Ho tasks up to four players with a simple goal – don’t fall to your death! Players will use their own two hands and the outstretched grip of their friends to grapple across each level on their way to…
Heave Ho is an adventure developed by Le Cartel Studio, released 29 August 2019 on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $2.49 at Fanatical.
What Heave Ho is
Heave Ho is an adventure game developed by Le Cartel Studio and released in 2019. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Grab one another’s hands, climb across dangling bodies, and swing your pals to safety in a wobbly, dangly mass of limbs. Customize your character with all manner of stylish accessories and zany accouterment in a vain attempt to remember who you are and which of your hands is the only thing between you and the plummet of doom.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and kids. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Heave Ho holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.49 at Fanatical, 75% below its usual price. Across the 3 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $3.99 — a spread of $1.50 for an identical product.
What it launched against
Heave Ho launched on 29 August 2019, within three weeks of Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall and Gears 5. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall, Gears 5.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Heave Ho yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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