Hiveswap: Act 1
Hiveswap is a hand-drawn tribute to '90s point-and-click adventure games. 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…
Hiveswap: Act 1 is an adventure developed by What Pumpkin Games, released 14 September 2017 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Hiveswap: Act 1 is
Hiveswap: Act 1 is an adventure game developed by What Pumpkin Games and released in 2017. It was published by Fellow Traveller. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Hiveswap is a 2017 episodic adventure game developed by What Pumpkin Games and overseen by Andrew Hussie and Cohen Edenfield. Based in the universe of Hussie's MS Paint Adventures webcomic Homestuck, it focuses on a girl, Joey Claire, who is accidentally transported to the planet of Alternia—home of the troll species seen in Homestuck.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 44 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Homestuck series
Hiveswap: Act 1 is the first of 4 entries we hold in the Homestuck series. The next entry was Hiveswap Friendsim in 2018.
How it was received
Hiveswap: Act 1 holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual core 2.2GHz+, 4 GB RAM and 1 GB VRAM. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Hiveswap: Act 1 launched on 14 September 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Cuphead, Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Divinity: Original Sin II. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Destiny 2, Cuphead, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Hiveswap: Act 1 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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