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 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".

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.

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:

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
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Levels

 * Level 1:
 * Level 2:
 * Level 3:

Story
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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 game will receive a "Teen" rating from the ESRB, due to blood, mild fantasy violence, mild language, partial nudity, and suggestive themes.