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Parcel Now On Steam Early Access
Helsinki, Finland - March 26th, in the year of our Lord
2015 -- Frozenbyte is delighted to announce the
co-publishing of fellow Finnish game developer Polar Bunny Ltd's
atmospheric multi-character puzzle game, Parcel, available now
on Steam Early Access. Parcel initially passed Steam Greenlight™
in 2014 with flying colors. Valuable feedback from Early Access
players will be used to refine the final product due to be
released later in 2015. The game can be bought for $9.99 / 9.99
€ from the game’s Steam store page.
Parcel is a cyberpunk puzzle game where the player has to solve
interlocking laser puzzles using the unique abilities of
different characters. The game can be played alone or
cooperatively with friends, and already features over 120 fully
playable puzzles. A level editor is also included, enabling the
amount of playable content to grow within the community. The
story of the game follows the adventures of a 22nd century
postage company and touches on subjects such as post-humanism
(pun very much intended) and virtual reality, with the full
intent of boggling the players’ minds with questions about the
future.
Utilizing the powers of the team of peculiar postpeople -
block-pushing, magnetization, hacking and teleportation -
players will progress down a heavily guarded tower with
increasingly complex puzzles. Packed with intellectual challenge
and “the right kind of frustration”, Parcel aims to be a
memorable puzzling experience that will make players think and
leave them thinking afterwards.
“After years of dreaming and tireless work towards fulfilling
that dream, Parcel is finally shaping up to be the game it
deserves to be,” said the project’s creative director Pyry
Takkunen and continued: “A couple of years ago, this game
existed only on graph paper, and to see it enter daylight is
both enormously humbling and scary at the same time. I sincerely
hope that players on Steam enjoy what we’ve created and help us
develop it further. A puzzling future awaits!”
Game features:
Over 120 levels of puzzling divided into numerous distinct
sectors
1-4 players - play the entire adventure alone or locally with
friends!
Unique characters with their own interesting personalities and
special powers to help you solve even the hardest challenges -
or to complicate things further
A thought-provoking story about a not-so-unlikely future and its
peculiar inhabitants - and a box
Gorgeous environments with atmospheric, colorful visuals
An extensive level editor with endless creation possibilities –
make your own puzzles and challenge the world!
Parcel aims to deliver its players a fantastic puzzle game
experience like no other. The developers firmly believe that
harnessing the creative spirit of the community is essential for
Parcel, as there are literally millions of different
mind-boggling puzzles that can be created with the character and
level object combinations. Early Access will enable the
development team to listen to community feedback and create the
best possible way for players to puzzle each other!