2026-06-06 18:00 UTC · Community Announcements · folks
Hey folks! Adriaan typing here, on this wholesome day!Hidden Folks 2 was officially announced at Wholesome Direct just now!! Here's the announcement, including a small introduction to the team and I:And as the game will obviously also release on Steam, make sure to wishlist the game immediately:Hidden Folks 2 looks like and builds upon the original game in every regard: the art style, the miniature landscapes, the gameplay, the cheeky jokes, and the mouth-made sounds. True to the original, the game is all about exploring the little stories scattered throughout each landscape, without time limi
2026-05-18 14:34 UTC · Community Announcements · folks
Hey folks!Game designer Adriaan typing here. It's been a while since you last heard from me and a LOT has happened since the release of Hidden Folks! I released a bunch of other games, had a kid, and more recently co-founded a new studio with the familiar name Hidden Folks to build more playful, accessible, and curiosity-invoking black & white games within The Hidden Folks Universe. We are 4 people now, wild!… which brings me to the point of this message: we are working on something, and we'll announce it soon. We'll post something here, but if you want to make sure you don't miss the news, si
2025-05-12 11:51 UTC · Community Announcements · Adriaan
Hey folks! Even though many of you are waiting for MORE Hidden Folks (we hear you!) and even though we may soon have more announcements on that (this is nearly turning into a joke, isn't it), Adriaan wanted to mention that he just released Rift Riff!!! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/Rift_Riff/ It's a very, very different game from Hidden Folks (as per usual with every game he designs): Rift Riff is a tower defense game with a strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics. It's much less 'casual' than Hidden Folks, so it may not be for ever
2020-06-04 15:22 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)
Hidden Folks never needed instruments to be musical. This week, the hidden object sketchbook goes On Tour, bringing its quirky vocals to muddy festivals, basement discos and the studio floor. It’s free, too, along with all of Hidden Folks’ previously-released DLC – at the cost of making the charming monochrome pixel-hunt a little pricier for newcomers. (more…)
2020-06-04 11:38 UTC · Community Announcements · Adriaan
The team and I (Adriaan) are proud to release the On Tour areas as a free update today!! Watch the trailer: I'm especially proud of Celine and Sylvain for once again coming up with hundreds of funny stories and interactions. For this update, Celine took over pretty much all level and interaction design from me and, I hate to admit it, probably came up with more inventive interactions than I did! Playing Sylvain and Celine's first draft of the new areas was perhaps the first time I played Hidden Folks without knowing every little detail about it - the closest thing to being a player of the game
2020-05-19 12:02 UTC · Community Announcements · Adriaan
Hey folks! The team and I are super proud to announce a major update to Hidden Folks, launching on June 4th, called On Tour. The update will add 6 (!!) new music themed areas to the game, with more than 70 things to find, new mouth sounds (we even made weird music), new interactions, and plenty of new clues with mildly amusing or straight up bad jokes. A couple 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. After much discussion and consideration, we decided that we want to come back and unify all areas into a
2019-12-23 19:06 UTC · Community Announcements · Adriaan
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2018-12-10 07:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Hidden Folks *bling!* is a hidden object game that’s *whooooosh!* immensely satisfying to play yourself *thwip!* but an absolute nightmare for anyone else to listen to *boing!* That’s because *pfftttt* as you may have guessed *thwap!* every single click results in a *plink!*, *zip!* and the occasional *dingalingaling!* as you poke and prod its giant Where’s Wally canvas (or Waldo, for the yanks out there) to find its errant citizens, fruit, birds and (sometimes) monkeys
2018-11-03 04:42 UTC · Community Announcements · Adriaan
Hey folks. The release of the new Beach areas and game's release on Nintendo Switch mark the end of the fourth year of making Hidden Folks. Before I started working on Hidden Folks, I had designed a few games and programmed several prototypes, but I had never programmed an entire game. When I met Sylvain and jokingly told him we should make a game together, I did not imagine we would then proceed to spend four whole years making a game to be released on 7 platforms!! I learned so much from making this game. About game design, playtesting, iterating. About community, fans, communication. About
2018-10-31 15:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)
Video games, you may have noticed, are often a little bit horrid. All sorts of naughtiness, and a distinct lack of people just being kind to one another. What are we like?! But fortunately there are games that make an exception to the potty-mouthed meanies that dominate, and today I celebrate them and their cuteness with a collection of lovely screenshots. (more…)
2018-10-25 17:10 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's Deal: Save 50% on Hidden Folks!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Saturday at 10AM Pacific Time
2018-10-24 10:01 UTC · Community Announcements · Adriaan
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789895/6b3a591aeea232c272616a1a3734dc8cdf739ec7.png The team and I are proud to release an update to Hidden Folks today!! This update includes a Beach DLC that contains 5 beach-themed areas with 60+ more things to find. Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npFg7P14xe4 We also added some of the new sounds from Beach to the mouth sound pack, and we heavily optimised the game to run even smoother on your computer! You can read the full changelog here. This massive content update was never possible without you, the
2018-10-18 09:04 UTC · Community Announcements · Adriaan
Hey folks! Announcement! The new Beach DLC will be out next week, Wednesday October 24th!! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789895/3180e486b8d285ba7d8ceec6c5900299927d0ede.png The Beach DLC will have: - 5 new areas with 60+ things to find. - a price of around USD 2.99 in your local currency. - pirates. * H Y P E * And as if that's not enough, I'll also update the Mouth Sounds Pack to include the funniest sounds from the Beach areas, some of which in my opinion are the funniest sounds we ever recorded. * H Y P E H Y P E * See you next week!! - Adriaan
2018-06-26 18:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice Bell)
The old quote is wrong: neither death nor taxes are, it seems to me, as terrifyingly certain as the Steam Summer Sale. Yes, once more we can add to the heap that is our backlog by buying games for, what, five quid, on average? But there are so many to choose from that it’s easy to get flustered, so who better than the staff of RPS to hand-pick the best ones for your consideration (rhetorical question; do not answer)? Check out the full list below for a mix of games that should suit all pockets and tastes. (more…)
2018-05-10 17:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Brendan Caldwell)
The dadification of games continues. So we re going full Dad this week on the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show, as we ve been asked to talk about the games we play with our children. Alec s daughter is excited by the unlockable characters in Rayman Legends (and she s also strangely fascinated by Battletech). John s son is a bit younger and likes to watch his dad diving in Abzu and Subnautica (but also manages to sneak glimpses of God of War s quiet moments on the TV naughty!). Brendan doesn t have children, only a cat. She can t stand games and thinks they are a waste of time. (more&h
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