Hilda: Before Trolberg

Hilda: Before Trolberg is an episodic graphic adventure game developed by Fullbright Studios and co-published by Annapurna Interactive and 505 Games for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, Valve Steam Deck, Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. The game will be released in five episodes periodically from August to April. Physical copies have been released on May 18, distributed by 505 Games. 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 meet Twig, and other completly new stories like how she meet the wood man and his family, how she meet 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 trouble makers like a crew of tall vitras called "The Tallest Vitras".

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 an 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 an 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 pull 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 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 maded for her when she was young so she could protect herself from bad people. after that, hilda leave 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 an 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 eated 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 keeped, 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 an talk, they fell asleep in the couch together.

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!:
 * Level 2 Road To Home:
 * Level 3 Camping Outside Home:
 * Mini Boss Level Winged Vitra:
 * 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:

Story
When Hilda meets an elf named Alfur, he take her on a tour on the elf village.

Levels

 * Level 1:
 * Level 2:
 * Mini Boss:

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:

Story
Hilda faces some big trouble makers like a crew of tall vitras called "The Tallest Vitras".

Levels

 * Level 1:
 * Level 2:
 * Mini Boss:

Trivia

 * 1) Retail versions will be available on May 18.
 * 2) The PC, iOS and Android versions will have controller support.
 * 3) Physical copies will contain bonus items.
 * 4) Just like the previous game, the will revieve a "Teen" rating from the ESRB, due to blood, mild fantasy violence, mild language, partial nudity, and suggestive themes.