Hilda: Before Trolberg

Hilda: Before Trolberg is a first-person exploration adventure game developed by Cyan Worlds Inc. and Connor Fay Multimedia (formerly known as Intentional Entertainment) and published by 505 Games for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, Meta Quest, Windows, Steam Deck, Amazon Luna, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Android. It is a second entry in the Hilda series, set as a prequel to the original game, focusing on young Hilda's stories when she used to live in the wilderness. Gameplay concerns itself mostly with the use of branching dialogues and interacting with the environment.
== Gameplay ==
Hilda: Before Trolberg is a graphic adventure played from a first-person view. The player will play as protagonist Hilda. Before Trolberg features the ability "Backtalk", which the player can use to call upon Hilda to get out of certain precarious situations; "Backtalk" may also make a situation worse. A dialogue tree is used when a conversation or commentary is prompted. Occasional decisions will temporarily or permanently change outcomes. The environment can be interacted with and altered.
== Synopsis ==
The game will take place before the original game focusing on young Hilda. The game will tell the stories when she used to live in the wilderness. Like when she meets Twig, and other completly new stories like how she meets the wood man and his family, how she meets the trolls for the first time, and also it is shown how her mother teaches her how to swim and hold her breath as long as possible every summer. And she'll also have to face some big troublemakers like a crew of tall vitras called "The Tallest Vitras".
== Plot ==
=== Chapter 1: Life in the Wilderness ===
==== Story ====
A young girl named Hilda grew up in the wilderness with her mother. Over the course, she explores nature, and she meets the trolls for the first time.
==== Levels ====
* Level 1 Exploration: Hilda and Johanna are taking a nice walk through the forest, and during the that, Hilda wanted to explore the forest by herself, so she left her mum alone and go explore the forest alone. This level is the tutorial for the mechanics of the game, and it's pretty fun.
* Level 2 Finding Trolls: During her exploration, she found a troll in middle of the forest, she was very surprised, she never heard about those creatures, not even her mom told her about their existence, it was still day, so she had time to go to her house and go get her drawing stuff to draw him.
* Mini Boss Level Maniac Vitra: When She was home, once she entered, she found her mum hide behind the couch, when she asked what's going on. The young Hilda was attacked by an maniatic vitra that was very salvage, once she pulls him away from him, she decided to confront him with a big stick she had. Pretty easy fight, no need to say anything else...
*Level 3 Sun's Leaving: After defeating the maniatic vitra, he ran away after Johanna spoke to him with a bat. Johanna was proud of her daughter for saving her, to prove her proudness she gave to Hilda a wooden sword her parents made for her when she was young so she could protect herself from bad people. After that, Hilda leaves home to go where she found the troll to draw him. before she could leave, her mum gave to her a bell to spoke the troll if the sun leaves.
*Level 4 Run Away!: After drawing the troll, she realized that the night was coming, and when the sun leaved, she saw how the troll started to wake up and transform to his regular form, once he fully finished his transformation, he saw how Hilda was running away from him, and he started to chase her. This level is a whole chase level where you'll be chased by the troll, if he ever catch's you, you'll be done for.
*Boss Level Big "Bad" Troll: When she reached home, she saw that the troll followed him through the entire chase. So, she had to confront him so he could not eat her and her mum. But soon she discovered that the reason why he followed him was because of the bell he had in the nose, so she had to find a way to take it away from him without being eaten alive. Once the health of the boss is empty, you'll have to remove the bell from his nose carefully.
*Ending Of Episode 1: After taking away the bell, the troll calmed down, and he was thankfully that she could take away bell from his nose, as a way to thank her, he gave her back her drawing book, but a bit wet because it was kept, in his mouth when she ran away. After leaving, her mum was very surprised that her daughter could do such of thing, and after having a talk, they fell asleep in the couch together.
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=== Chapter 2: Twig's Origin ===
==== Story ====
In this episode hilda meets for the first-time twig, but also, she must face new challenges during this new adventure.
==== Levels ====
* Level 1 Discovering A Deerfox!: 4 days later, Hilda was looking for rocks for her collection when suddenly she heard a howl in the distance, as the curious and adventurous girl that she is, she decided to go to look for the origin of that howl for help.
* Level 2 Road To Home: After saving the little creature that was trapped, she realized that it was a fox deer, which surprised her a lot, when she was about to pet it, she heard her mother's voice, and when she wanted to show it to the little creature she found, but when she turned around, she didn't see it anywhere. Johanna told Hilda that she had thought about having a campout during that weekend, which made Hilda happy. With no time to lose, they decided to go home to prepare everything.
*Level 3 Camping Outside Home: After preparing everything for their camp, they left home and went to a place far away from their home, some hills where there was a beautiful view of the whole forest and also in the distance, they could see the city of Trolberg. They were close to the place, so they hurried to get there before nightfall.
*Mini Boss Level Winged Vitra: After arriving at the hills, they were able to see the beautiful view that Johanna had told her daughter about during the whole trip. After setting up the tent and the campfire, they began to eat cucumber sandwiches and marshmallows, they also told stories during that night, it was fun. Until while they were looking at the beautiful and impressive sky full of stars and constellations and the moon, Hilda thought she saw a figure in the shape of a winged vitra flying in the sky, Johanna thought it was some kind of hallucination, but when they least expected it the winged vitra appeared out of nowhere and attacked Johanna, that vitra didn't look normal since its skin looked worn out and had no leaves on its head, and its wings looked weird, as if they were made of wood and plants, Hilda went to help her mother quickly and not let that winged vitra hurt her.
*Level 4 Adventure With Mum:
*Level 5 Waterfalls:
*Boss Level Salt Lion:
*Level 6 Can't Swim...:
*Level 7 Nice Walk With Mum:
*Boss Level Eagle:
*Ending Of Episode 2:
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=== Chapter 3: Summer Training ===
==== Story ====
During the summer, Johanna gives Hilda swimming lessons on how to swim and how to hold her breath as long as possible.
==== Levels ====
* Level 1 Swimming Lessons:
* Level 2 Breath Holding:
* Level 3 Diving Lessons:
* Level 4:
* Level 5:
=== Chapter 4: Meeting The Elves ===
==== Story ====
2 weeks after her swimming lessons, Hilda discovers a small village where she meets the elves for the first time. Upon further exploring she manages to find the Deerfox again. Hilda managed to pet it, this time the fox didn’t run away. Hilda had named the Deerfox “Twig”. When Hilda and Twig kept exploring the village, she was greeted with Alfur. Alfur gave Hilda a tour of the village, after which he followed Hilda back to the camp where he meets Johanna.
==== Levels ====
* Level 1:
*Level 2:
*Level 3:
=== Chapter 5: The Midnight Giant ===
==== Story ====
Hilda, Twig, Alfur, and Johanna had a lot of fun during that summer. Together they were looking at the beautiful and impressive sky full of stars and constellations and the moon, swim at the lake, tell stories, and go to the village.
==== Levels ====
* Level 1:
* Level 2:
* Mini Boss:
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== Price ==
Just like the previous game, this game will be priced at 30 U.S. dollars, 40 dollars Canadian, 45 Australian dollars, 30 euros, 25 pound sterling, and 4,536 yen on all platforms. The PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, Meta Quest, and Steam. The game will be free to download for Xbox Game Pass members, PC Game Pass members, and PlayStation Plus members day-one. The game would also be available on Amazon Luna for 10 dollars a month while also being available for free for Amazon Prime members. Now with iPhones, iPads, and Macs, the game will also cost a full 30 dollars on those devices, similar to how much games like Resident Evil 8: Village, Resident Evil 4 Remake, and Death Stranding would cost on Apple devices like the iPhone 15 Pro and the newest iPad Pro.
== Steam Deck and Linux Compatibility ==
Just like the previous game, Hilda: Before Trolberg would also be verified on Steam Deck, which is a handheld gaming PC made by Valve. The Steam Deck uses SteamOS which is based on Linux. Since the Steam Deck uses Linux, many games on Windows will work with Linux using both Wine and Proton. Wine and Proton are compatibility layers that translates Windows games and applications to work on Linux, and they work flawlessly. Most of Windows games will work on Linux and on the Steam Deck via Proton, so there won't be a version specifically for Linux because… Well… There’s no need for it.
== Apple Compatibility ==
The game on Apple devices uses 20 GB of storage. For installation, the recommendation would be having at least 25 GB of free space.
iPhone:
Requires iOS 17.0 or later and a device with the A17 Pro chip or later.
* iPhone 15 Pro
* iPhone 15 Pro Max
iPad:
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later and a device with the M1 chip or later.
* iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation)
* iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
* iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation)
* iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
* iPad Air (5th generation)
* iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
* iPad Pro (11-inch) (4th generation)
* iPad Pro (11-inch) (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
* iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (6th generation)
* iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
Mac:
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
== Android compatibility ==
The game on Android devices requires Android 15 or later and uses 20 GB of storage. For installation, the recommendation would be having at least 25 GB of free space.
Samsung:
* Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra
* Samsung Galaxy Tab S9+
* Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra
* Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+
* Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra
Google:
* Google Pixel 10 Pro
OnePlus:
* OnePlus 12R
* OnePlus 12 Pro
* OnePlus 13
* OnePlus 13 Pro
Xiaomi:
* Xiaomi 14 Pro
* Xiaomi 14 Ultra
* Xiaomi 15 Pro
* Xiaomi 15 Ultra
* Xiaomi Civi 4 Pro
* Xiaomi Pad 6 Max 14
* Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro 12.4
* Xiaomi Pad 7 Max 14
* Xiaomi Pad 7S Pro 12.4
* Xiaomi MIX Fold 4
Other:
* Asus ROG Phone 7
* Asus ROG Phone 7 Ultimate
* Nothing Phone (3)
* Sony Xperia 1 V
* Motorola Edge 50 Pro
== System Requirements ==
Windows:
 	MINIMUM SPECS 	RECOMMENDED SPECS
OS 	Windows 10 	Windows 10/11 with updates
Processor 	Intel Core i7-4790, AMD Ryzen 5 2600 	Intel Core i7-10700K, AMD Ryzen 3800 XT
Memory 	16 GB RAM 	32 GB RAM
Graphics 	Intel ARC A380, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650, AMD Radeon RX 480	Intel ARC A770, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, AMD Radeon RX 6800
DirectX 	Version 12 	Version 12
Storage 	40 GB available space 	40 GB available space
Additional Notes	SSD recommended 	SSD recommended
== Trivia ==
# The PC, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Android versions will have controller support.
# Physical copies will contain bonus items.
#Just like the previous game, the game will receive a "Teen" rating from the ESRB, this time due to Blood, Language, Mild Violence, Partial Nudity, and Suggestive Themes.
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