- Publisher: 1C Entertainment
- Release Date: Jun 19, 2018
- Also On: PlayStation 4, Xbox One
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Apr 29, 2022The unique and beautifully designed Haimrik is a fast-paced, text-driven action-puzzler with a fair amount of challenge throughout its fantastical and frequently brutal journey.
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CD-ActionSep 27, 2018You die often and spectacularly, but failures are not frustrating in the slightest, because you lose a couple of minutes of progress at most and gameplay mechanics are fresh and very satisfying. [08/2018, p.69]
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Jun 22, 2018Like so many tales of might and magic, Haimrik is a traditional zero to hero tale. Beginning in a squalid town, this mundane little corner of the world is an appropriate reflection of the game’s titular hero. Haimrik is a spectacularly unremarkable scribe who spends his days trying to scratch out a living in the basement of the local bar. A fortuitous series of events gift Haimrik a magical book with a difference. What follows is a platforming, puzzle solving calamity with intermittent eviscerations and the odd lioness mauling.
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Jul 20, 2018Haimrik is an out-there mixture of puzzler and platformer that succeeds in heart, yet falls short of being intelligent — much like the main character.
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LEVEL (Czech Republic)Dec 31, 2018An original adventure, which unfortunately did not succeed in anything but faint hints of what the game could have been like if its ideas were fully explored. [Issue#288]