Lil’ Guardsman is going to be released on January 22nd, Hilltop Games has confirmed. The puzzle and deduction game is set to be released for PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch. A new trailer for the game has been released that introduces the protagonist Lil, who is the 12 year old guard person covering for her dad.
“With Lil’ Guardsman we wanted to mix the deductive puzzle-solving and branching storyline of Papers, Please with the warmth and humor of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango,” said Hilltop Co-Founder and Co-Game Director Artiom Komarov. “We’ve been cracking each other up for two years coming up with scenarios, dialogue, visual gags, and picturing the voice cast that make up Lil’ Guardsman’s world, we’re so excited to finally share it with everyone on January 23rd!”
In Lil’ Guardsman, Lil interrogates and interviews a variety of characters as they try to gain entry into a city. The characters can range from a werewolf, an old lady, and someone called Stabitha. Using a variety of tools, players must deduce whether the characters are visiting the city for innocent reasons, or there to cause trouble.
Lil’ Guardsman was one the titles that was supposed to be published by Versus Evil, before the publisher was unexpectedly shut down by parent company tinyBuild just before Christmas. Versus Evil is still listed as the game’s publisher at this time.
Source: Press Release
