Hidden Folks is a soothing search game with beautiful look

Genre: search game Developer: Adriaan de Jongh Release: 15.02.2017 Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS Mental Health Thread: Anxiety, Depression, Stress

• That's why it's in Hidden Folks
• That's the special thing about Hidden Folks
• So Hidden Folks deals with Mental Health Topics
• is suitable for whom hidden folks
• Folks assessment

Does your Fidget Cubes know? These little cubes with buttons, wheels and switches on each side, which should relax by clicking and pleasant surfaces the nerves. This actually helps, because the hands have something to do in stress situations, and click and press is immediately satisfactory. Hidden Folks works quite similarly and calms with minimalist graphics, rich sound design and completely consequent gameplay.

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That's why it's in Hidden Folks

Hidden Folks is a search game. In Best "Where Waldo" -manier is looking for their characters that presents you the game, for example in a jungle landscape or an idyllic suburb. Each side of this animated Wimmel is black and white and drawn with fine, clear lines. Thus, the individual scenes never act a scary, never hectic, but always like a minimalist artwork. Now you click Through the Level, bushes bushes, shrinks holes and turns crates, and finds the missing persons.

There are also short tips that help you in the search. An wanted lady, for example, plays according to the game of "heartwarming music" and indeed - she climbs right next to a campfire on her instrument.

The searched persons are partly actually "hidden", so hidden. They sleep in tents, squat behind flowerbeds and lungly beside hay bales. The tasks are varied, in some worlds you have to find the figures, for example, but clear the locked path by clicking and sweeping. Some worlds are so huge that the challenge consists solely in it at all. If you find enough missing persons, your next world will shut down.

That's the special thing about Hidden Folks

The special feature is the meditative quality of the game. Without Tutorial, you dive into these monochrome worlds full of loving details in which you can search completely without pressure. You do not have to find the hidden folks as soon as possible, it's just about the simple joy. If you click on the many tents, doors and boxes, then this is a bit like an advent calendar open, even if there is not always a bit behind it.

This soothing effect comes mainly through the sound design. Developer Adriaan de Jongh and his team took all sound effects themselves and thus created a unique organic a capella sound with the soothing effect of ASMR.

So Hidden Folks deals with Mental Health Topics

Hidden Folks is perfect for those who are overwhelmed by their hectic everyday life. Even video games often do not give the desired compensation, even a time limit is a problem for many. In Hidden Folks you do not have to worry about making such things. The game offers all the opportunity to dive into a harmonious and non-violent world for a few minutes. Hidden Folks is aware of the soothing effect of satisfactory sound effects such as ASMR; The game sets this very specifically to give players to a break from the stress of everyday life.

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is suitable for whom hidden folks

Hidden Folks is a game without high scores and without time limit and is perfect for anyone who wants to escape the overall spread of everyday life. Especially fans of minimalist puzzles like Monument Valley or Baba is you are likely to have fun here. Ultimately, however, the game is for every something that estimates entertaining fun with good sound design and a great graphic.

Folks assessment

Lukas Elstermann

@Thatlukaselster

I also like epic role plays like Dragon Quest and The Witcher. But the menus sometimes feel like I'm just doing my tax return. Many will know it: some games now have such a wealth of options that one asks if they are "allowed to play them at all, without having to deal extensively with heavy statistics and magic tables.

Fortunately, games like hidden folks remember that the fun of the game alone is counting and there is no "real" video games. The soundtrack is brushed, murdered and sliced - to push on the individual figures and scenes is therefore as pleasant as air cushion film between the hands crush.

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