Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!

Sadly, a bit of a cautious recommendation. As somebody who really enjoyed the first game, Into the HIVE! starts off strong. A mix of the same old characters you've come to enjoy and love, in a new conspiracy ripe with twists, turns and interesting new animals to meet. If you've played Zipp's Café, it sets up the scene for this game, and The Wild Gentlemen continue it well. The addition of a splash of colour in this noir world is a welcome surprise. The voice acting is excellent, and the lines while cliché are very appropiate for the setting. Into the HIVE! introduces quite a few new characters, a lot of which have interesting personalities and stories. You can tell a lot of care was put into creating the game. Unfortunately, and this seems to not be an unpopular opinion, the game falls off hard after the end of the third chapter. Many of the story beats that have been set up suddenly make place for a rocky ride towards an ending that I felt was very out of place and left us with more questions than answers. I felt unsatisfied as suddenly most of what we were working towards is swept under the carpet and left unaddressed. It feels rushed, and the lack of polish especially towards the end of the game contributes to that. I ran into quite some spelling mistakes, differences between the voice lines and the written text, and some voice lines missing entirely. If you enjoyed the first game, Paint it RED!, and want more Chicken Police in your life, I would not hesitate to pick it up. The first part of the game was very enjoyable, enough so to forgive the lackluster final stretch.

I absokutely HATE giving this a thumbs down because I loved the first game and this one seemed like it was going to be so good, but maybe I’ll get to change it at some point. In one of their updates they said they fixed a bug in the graveyard glass puzzle, however it’s still occurring for me, and because of it I can’t progress in the game at all. I can rotate the piece, but I can’t move it anywhere to complete the puzzle. I’ve tried reloading the game, restarting my Steam deck, and made sure my game is fully up to date, but I’m only a few hours in and can’t make any progress because of this. It’s incredibly frustrating considering how long I’ve been waiting for this to come out. If anyone can help, I’d love to change this to a positive review.

Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! Is a pretty good game! Although they dont always follow the text and there are typos but i still find it pretty good! The art when in color looks very realistic! 9/10

You like the first one? You most surely like this one too. Now, you may read all other reviews talking mostly bad things about the ending already. True, the ending got a FEW Blunders. For moments, the game is better than the first game, and some other partes, is worst. Still, recommended, voice acting and the whole noir vibes is 10 10 No human being will tell you otherwise