Hela Demo Arrives For Steam Next Fest With Its Own Story And Map
Releasing a demo whose story and map exist nowhere in the finished game is a deliberate spoiler shield, and it puts the co-op pitch in front of Next Fest players before the December 1 launch.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Windup and Knights Peak have released a demo for Hela: The Little Mouse and the Magic Forest ahead of Steam Next Fest. The demo carries a story and map built for it alone, so players avoid spoilers for the main game. Players control a mouse helping an ailing witch, using a magic frog backpack to swing and glide, with online and split-screen local co-op and magical clones in single-player. The game is scheduled for December 1 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2.
The demo is not a slice of the finished game. Windup built a separate story and map for it, so the forest players explore now will not be the one they meet at launch. The magic frog backpack anchors the movement: its tongue hooks onto branches to swing, and it inflates into a glide.
Co-op supports up to four players online or two on split screen, and single players can conjure magical clones with "bunshin" to work the gimmicks alone. Shouchiku Games handles publishing in Japan.
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