SKYHILL: Black Mist will be available tomorrow! Delve inside the world of isometric survival-horror. Craft your way through the building filled with bloodthirtsty creatures, sneak behind them, set traps or use brutal strength. It's up to you how you will survive! And don’t forget to re-explore already visited locations to find previously inaccessible items and information.
In SKYHILL: Black Mist you wake up in your apartment situated in a huge residence which was built by Skyhill Inc., a suspicious biotech corporation that controls the entire city. Being a Skyhill employee, you have just received the keys from your apartment and moved in. Suddenly, everything starts to fall apart: your daughter is being kidnapped and the whole building is invaded by dark monsters and crazy cultists that want to hunt you down. You must save your daughter and survive whatever the cost facing the imminent danger, being chased by the mysterious black mist that transforms humans into disgusting creatures.
The second installment of the series is a combination of classic horror and gameplay straight from survival games. The game loosely parallels the original concept, but gameplay-wise it's a revolutionary step forward. This time the developers moved from 2D to 3D, presenting the action in an isometric view. The game mechanics have been significantly enhanced with stealth elements and solutions known from metroidvania-like games, including the ability to re-explore already visited locations to find previously inaccessible items and information. An important element of the game, also improved compared to the original, is a crafting system that allows players to craft items that will help them survive in the most difficult conditions.
In SKYHILL: Black Mist nothing is as it seems. Where did the mysterious Black Mist come from? Who summoned it and why? Try to distinguish reality from illusion. Find out what’s real and what’s not. 🔥SKYHILL: Black Mist will be available with a -10 discount for the owners of the original game and in special bundle with Skyhill 1🔥
Thank you for your support! Stay tuned, the game lands tomorrow!
SKYHILL: Black Mist delayed to June 11th
Hi All,
Today we decided to move the release of SKYHILL: Black Mist from May 28th to June 11th, 2020.
The game is now fully playable, but there’s still work to be done in terms of final fixing and playtesting. SKYHILL: Black Mist is all about player’s experience and immersion, we pay a lot of attention to the look and feel of our game. It is also much bigger than the original Skyhill game project, we need to be 100% sure that all elements are on their places.
SKYHILL: Black Mist is in development for more than 3 years now and we really feel it has a lot to offer to survival horror fans. Every day we receive support from our game community, and we want to deliver to our fans a game they all are waiting for. We want SKYHILL: Black Mist to be a great and compelling achievement on survival horror field and postponing the launch will give us the precious time we need to make the game perfect.
Expect more updates and news as we will get closer to the new launch date and thank You for Your patience!
Klabater & Mandragora
Story gameplay trailer for SKYHILL: Black Mist and the announcement of various edtions!
Hi! Today we'd like to share an atmospheric gameplay trailer where we show both gameplay and story:
https://youtu.be/UofpKIwH7_o
SKYHILL: Black Mist will be released in three edition:
Standard ($24,99)
Enhanced($29,99)
Ultimate Supporter Bundle ($34,99)
Below details of editions
ːfireaxeːSKYHILL: Black Mist - Enhanced Edition contains:
An elite skin pack – turn your hero into a legendary action movie character… Glass, who gives a shit about glass? Yippee-ki-yay!
Original Graphic Novel - A graphic novel that introduces the plot of the game
Black Mist Artbook - sketches, concept arts and work-in-progress graphics created during game development
ːsnarlːSKYHILL: Black Mist – Ultimate Supporter’s Bundle contains:
An elite skin pack – turn your hero into a legendary action movie character… Glass, who gives a shit about glass? Yippee-ki-yay!
Original Soundtrack – Immerse yourself in an anxious and mysterious ambient music from SKYHILL: Black Mist OST with a special theme song “Till We See the Clear Sky” by Anna Im
Original Graphic Novel - A graphic novel that introduces the plot of the game
Black Mist Artbook - sketches, concept arts and work-in-progress graphics created during game development.
SKYHILL: Black Mist will go live on May 28th, 2020.
Hi everyone, we know that we kept silence for some time and didn’t share much about the development. But today we have very important news for you: SKYHILL: Black Mist will go live on Steam on May 28th, 2020. We plan to release the game on current generation consoles late summer this year.
SKYHILL: Black Mist is a sequel to our successful game SKYHILL, which was released in 2015. Eventually we have decided to get back to the concept and to reassess it. And we have created quite an unorthodox sequel. For a game studio it was a very risky step. Our new game is ten times bigger, deeper and much more diverse than the original. We’ve managed to create something truly unique and entertaining, despite the fact that it was a real challenge for us.
SKYHILL: Black Mist is a personal story of an employee of Skyhill Inc. and it rolls out inside a huge residential complex. Besides the apartments, this residence includes a school, a shopping mall, restaurants, bars, art gallery, a cinema and much more. Our protagonist – Garry Thompson – will face some crazy phenomena. As if from nowhere Black Mist has taken over the residence. He turned residents and personnel into dark corrupted creatures, who’ll kill you at first opportunity. Garry’s daughter was kidnapped, and the kidnappers keep calling him on the phone. It seems as though they’re playing a game with Garry, mocking and haunting him. But what if they have a plan? It looks as if Garry is corrupted by Black Mist too, and he’s running out of time.
Ideologically SKYHILL: Black Mist doesn’t encourage you to kill enemies. Monsters are obstacles, you can sneak from behind and stab them, you can use traps and environment, but something it is much smarter to simply run away. Weapons make too much noise, and bullet count is limited. That’s why it’s important to check all the lockers and drawers to finds something that can be useful for crafting. Anything might come handy when you need to survive.
Locations are designed in way that you’re free in your navigation. The entire residence is built manually, and we have decided not to use random location generation. And that comes together with constant expansion and change of the game universe. Some locations of the residence are corrupted heavier and don’t look as other, non-corrupted, locations. You have to find out what has really happened there.
Those, who are familiar with the original game, remember how we like to twist the plot lines. In SKYHILL: Black Mist we have not only repeated this approach, but we’ve brought it to yet another level. It’s not just a survival game but a complicated and intriguing story, which you’d have to investigate yourself.
We wish you and your families to stay safe. We have to work remotely from home too. It’s tough for all of us, but remember:
The darkest hour is just before the dawn!
⁃ Mandragora & Klabater
22 Hours left to back Help Will Come Tomorrow!
Survivors!
There are only 24h left to support Help Will Come Tomorrow on Kickstarter! We are very close to funding additional testing and QA for Nintendo Switch version. We are only $679 away! Can you help us make it?
Campaign ends on March 20 at 3PM CET (8AM PT, 17:00 MSK)!
Klabater.com/HWCT_Kickstarter
Another story-driven and history-inspired game from Klabater! This is the Zodiac Speaking coming for PC in 2020!
Dear friends!
There’s a great deal of things happening around Klabater lately! Here’s another very cool announcement and this one is something completely new, even for ourselves! After exploring European historical settings in We. The Revolution and Help Will Come Tomorrow (to be released late April!) we now decided to tell you a truly american tale, the one that revolves around really dark episodes of American crime history...
This is the Zodiac Speaking is a dark, fact-based single player FPP adventure thriller, combining stealth & detective modes in a stylized world of California 1970s and based on the story of Zodiac, one of the most famous never-caught serial killers. Play as Robert Hartnell, a San Francisco journalist, who receives a phone call from the Zodiac, greeting him with the memorable ‘Hello, this is the Zodiac speaking’...
This is the Zodiac Speaking is a thriller with elements of classic horrors, stealth mechanics, detective mode and several endings to discover. The gloomy atmosphere of the game is achieved through the original, stylized graphics and epic cinematic music. The co-author of the script to This is the Zodiac Speaking is Lukasz Orbitowski, one of the best Polish writers, laureate of the prestigious Paszporty Polityki award and nominated for the Nike award. Together with Krzysztof Grudziński, Head of Punch Punk Games, they plunged into the dark and dangerous 70s to produce an immersive and mature story. Music for the game was created by A_GIM, restless innovator and experimenter of the polish electronic scene!
This is the Zodiac Speaking is being developed by Punch Punk Games, a studio already known for creating intriguing Apocalipsis game (published by Klabater, as well!)
We are so happy to work with Punch Punk Games again! Our last cooperation was Apocalipsis: Harry at the End of the World, a unique medieval-inspired adventure experience. However, With This is The Zodiac Speaking we enter a completely new field. We try our best to publish games that somehow relate to human condition in general but also focus on the fate of concrete individuals. 1970’s in USA was a period of radical social unrest and divisions, it is an ideal background for a compelling and mature story.
Play This is the Zodiac Speaking and:
Discover the evidence-based story of the America's most famous never caught serial killer
Experience the story from the perspective of a person who survived the attack of the psycho killer
Unravel the details of the murders during psychological sessions and in detective mode
Listen to the voices of victims and save their souls
Discover the alternative endings
Enjoy the atmospheric, film music
Travel to the vintage 70's and feel the atmosphere of the past
This is the Zodiac Speaking is scheduled for 2020 on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.
SKYHILL: Black Mist on PAX East in Boston.
For a long time nothing has been heard from us, right? But we are in a hurry to reassure you, the development is in full swing and we are very pleased with the progress that has been achieved.
We sat locked up for a long time. But the winter in Russia this year was not so frosty, so we even sometimes went outside, do not worry. You know, the third year of development has already begun. Therefore, we decided to go out and show someone what we are working on.
To do this, we prepared a demo version for approximately 30-50 minutes of gameplay, which we are showing right now at PAX East in Boston. By the way, if you are suddenly there, then our stand is 24051. Come and play and say hi, we will be very happy.
Great news coming soon! Stay tuned!
- Mandragora
Play the demo + Support Help Will Come Tomorrow crowdfunding campaign!
Friends!
We are happy to let you know that today we’ve launched a crowdfunding campaign for Help Will Come Tomorrow, a true-born survival game and another step in Klabater’s bold journey in search of meaningful, story-driven games.
You will find our campaign here: klabater.com/HWCT_Kickstarter
We encourage you to support the game! :)
We soooo are happy to finally unveil more details about Help Will Come Tomorrow. The game was shown during Gamescom 2019 previously, and we are now in a much more advanced stage of development. This is why we decided to add a demo, to let everyone know that Help Will Come Tomorrow is already in a good shape. We really think that we have found our own unique approach to survival game formula, with a more narrative-driven and psychological touch.
Help Will Come Tomorrow crowdfunding campaign is supported with many new game-related materials, among them screens and artwork, but above all else we encourage you to check:
Exclusive demo (first 3 days in the game, available on Steam Card of the game)
Help us spread the word and share this news if you can :) Our fellow devs from Arclight Creations are now at the finish of development, but Help Will Come Tomorrow definitely requires extra help. Thanks to your support creators will be able to secure a top notch quality for the release!
Arclight Creations & Klabater
Skyhill Inc. #14-15, New cypher!
Sorry for a month of silence! After release of our Live Action trailer we worked really hard on the build for Gamescom where we presented our first hands-off demo version to selected journalists and bloggers.
happy visitor:
So we forgot a bit to check our email and when it finally came to, we were not surprised to find something new from j0hn_d0e_76. He sent us two more pages of the comics and strange cipher (like previously). As we took this as a tradition. We are posting these 2 pages and code here. Please let us know if you found how to decrypt it. Again, we hope nothing rude there. In this case please don’t post it in comments ːfreakyhandː
SKYHILL: Black Mist - Live action story trailer reveal
Hi! Today we're happy to show you a new live action story trailer for SKYHILL: Black Mist!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqatpKfnYb4
It's an experiment for our team and we'd like to here what you think about it :)
Have sooo much things to do as we're crunching on a build for upcoming Gamescom where we'll show our first hands-on build to selected press.
We hope later to tell you more about how we got the idea for it, filmed this trailer. And maybe show some "behind the scenes" photos!
Spoiler: You can find my legs in it ːbeatmeatː
