{"id":486593,"date":"2026-06-06T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/486593\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T20:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:03:08","slug":"hand-drawn-interactive-searching-game-hidden-folks-2-is-coming-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/486593\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand-Drawn Interactive Searching Game Hidden Folks 2 Is Coming Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subtitle\">It\u2019ll be available for PC and mobile, and maybe Nintendo Switch down the line. <\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/intro-1780772092.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2188936\/hand-drawn-interactive-searching-game-hidden-folks-2-is-coming-next-year\/\" data-post-id=\"2188936\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"Hand-drawn interactive searching game Hidden Folks 2 is coming next year: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"A screenshot from Hidden Folks 2 showing a hand drawn scene with a ferris wheel and tiny people\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    Hidden Folks BV<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A sequel to the 2017 interactive hidden object game Hidden Folks is coming to PC and mobile in 2027. The developers released the trailer for Hidden Folks 2 during Summer Game Fest&#8217;s Wholesome Direct showcase, revealing it&#8217;ll bring back the illustrated black-and-white art style and silly sounds that defined the first.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;True to the original, the game is all about exploring the little stories scattered throughout each landscape, without time limits or any pressure to score points,&#8221; the team wrote in a Steam post. &#8220;The sequel features completely new themes and areas, improved graphical quality, a second (not text!) clue for those in need, lots of new mouth-made sounds, and various quality-of-life improvements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The team says it&#8217;s working to release Hidden Folks 2 &#8220;in the first few months of 2027.&#8221; It&#8217;ll be available on Steam, itch.io, the App Store, the Google Play Store and possibly Nintendo Switch, &#8220;if there&#8217;s demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019ll be available for PC and mobile, and maybe Nintendo Switch down the line. &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-486593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}