DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD!

DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD!

HandyGames welcomes Octato to the family with their Metroidvania-style platformer Airhead.

Copenhagen, Denmark / Giebelstadt, Germany, March 31st, 2020: Wallet, keys, phone… Head? If you’ve ever felt like you’ve run out of the house without your head on, then this is the game for you. Join your protagonist Body and his organism friend Head and embark on a journey through a Metroidvania-style world!

Start your adventure as Body, who witnesses the tragic separation of Head and his air-pumping heart by an unknown machine. As the heart is taken away, Body jumps into action to save the abandoned Head. You must use the air tanks scattered around the world to keep Head inflated and uncover the true connection behind the stolen heart and the technology that litters your dystopian world. Wrap your head around unique mechanics and experience brave exciting gameplay, all while collecting sweet upgrades!

"We are incredibly happy to become a part of the HandyGames family. Their devotion to games and the people who play them has been clear from the start and we’re confident that HandyGames are the right people to help us share Airhead with the world."
​- Jacob Honore (CEO and Producer, Octato)

Dive into deep dark caverns, explore ancient structures and survive an industrial dystopia to solve the mystery of Head's significance in this world. Experience a beautiful art style while being filled with a sense of responsibility and urgency to help your friend. With a heavy focus on puzzle solving, this unusual challenge will require you to use your Head and Body both separately and together. 

“I’m very happy to support Octato on this awesome exploration platformer, that will deliver an incredible atmosphere with constant challenges and a very unique companionship between a body and his head.”
​- Reinhard Döpfer (Producer, HandyGames
)

Key Features

  • An immersive 2.5D platform experience in a Metroidvania-style world
  • A beautiful art style, embracing bold color and bleak shadow
  • Challenging puzzles must be solved by clever use of Head and Body’s synergy
  • Loads of powerful upgrades that open doors to new areas
  • A personal story of companionship, discovery, and responsibility
  • A myriad of creatures and machines to hinder or help you on your adventure

Airhead will be available 2021 for PC, Xbox, Playstation and Switch.


About Octato:

Airhead is being developed by the Copenhagen based game studio Octato. This small tightly-knit team and their talented collaborators from across the Danish game industry are thrilled to bring Airhead’s unique visuals and story of companionship and exploration to life.

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About HandyGames

HandyGames™ is a THQ Nordic Company and part of the Embracer Group Family. We operate as an international indie game and premium mobile game publisher and developer for a global community of gamers.

Games are our passion. Since our founding at the turn of the millennium, we have been steadily evolving our company and portfolio to publish and produce award-winning titles for cutting-edge consoles, PC, and VR, as well as premium mobile games from great teams around the world.

We are proud of our ever-growing and colorful portfolio - from hilarious games for the whole family to deep and sometimes dark topics presented in an interactive format. Games are and always will be entertainment media, but we firmly believe they are capable of much more.

HandyGames is at home in beautiful Giebelstadt in Northern Bavaria, close to the Franconian university and city of Würzburg and a proud part of the German and European gaming scene. Always on track towards lasting growth, we have significantly expanded our office space to create room for up to 120 colleagues and look forward to continuing to successfully shape the future of the international games industry as a sustainable employer.

As a team, we stand united against any form of discrimination. Regardless of sexual, cultural, or ethnic identity, we try to ensure that everyone feels welcome at HandyGames. It is very important to us to help new colleagues who move to our beautiful Franconian home to find like-minded interest groups, even outside their work environment.
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