Haimrik
Make words come to life in this action adventure unlike any other! Haimrik blends gameplay with the narrative of its story set in medieval times. Combined with crisp humor and rare visual style, Haimrik’s…
Haimrik is an adventure developed by Below the Game, released 6 June 2018 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $0.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 4 hrs to finish.
What Haimrik is
Haimrik is an adventure game developed by Below the Game and released in 2018. It was published by Fulqrum Publishing. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
This unique action adventure game lets you become Haimrik, a young scribe trying to make a living in a medieval town full of warriors, sorcerers, dragons and dragon-riding sorcerer-warriors. But one book changes his whole life. With the help of Masamba, a hungry lioness who will protect him while constantly trying to eat him, he’ll venture out to take on the evil king and his elite generals, the Word Warriors.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Haimrik holds a critic score of 61 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $0.99, that works out to about $0.25 per hour of the main story.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.99 at GOG, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Haimrik launched on 6 June 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.
Official trailer
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