Hilda and the Forgotten Valley

Hilda and the Forgotten Valley (Japanese: ヒルダの冒険 太陽神の神殿 Hepburn: Hiruda no Bōken Taiyō-Shin no Shinden, "Hilda's Adventure: Dark Dimension Invaders!") is a platformer action-adventure video game based on the Hilda TV series and graphic novels, and serving as a continuation of the third season's ending. It was released on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on March 27, 2026. It was developed by Now Production with assistance by ILCA, Inc. and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment.

Gameplay
The game is a 3D platformer akin to games such as Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie. However, unlike the latter two, while this game is a collect-a-thon, it focuses on traveling from point A to point B, but it does have some open zone levels in some chapters, and in each chapter there's a hub world that lets you explore a big chunk of the place you're at. And you can also find some shops where you can buy health items, weapons to use, and also some of the extras you can unlock such as the sound test. Levels will also have hidden collectionables that unlock extras such as clips from the show, concept art, music for the sound test, secret sections in levels and bonus costumes for Hilda.

The main playable character is Hilda, and the player will mostly play as her for the majority of the game unless you choose to play as the other characters, which can be unlocked as the player advanced through the game. She can attack the enemies in various ways such as, kicking them, jumping on top of them, and also by using weapons such as a shovels (mainly used by David), magic (mainly used by Frida), swords, hammers, and axes. Some of these weapons, however, can only be earned by buying them at the shop in the hub world of each world. In underwater levels, there's an oxygen bar, when it goes zero, then she will drown. In the underwater levels, Hilda is able to swim with a smooth control but is not annoying like other games of this style. The oxygen bar consists of a blue bar that will be slowly lowering as you stay underwater, and to refill it, you have to swim back to the surface, or look for a crack where a bubble comes out to take oxygen from it, just like the Sonic the hedgehog games. One interesting thing about the characters going underwater is that they have their own time length before they drown; Hilda and Johanna are hold their breaths the most underwater for up to ninty seconds, while Frida, David and Louise can hold it for sixty seconds. In some parts of the game, other characters such as Twig and Alfur are playable, albeit in brief sections. When playing as Alfur, the level will switch to a 2.5D gameplay, and when playing as Twig, the level switches to a autorunner style gameplay. Frida, David and Louise's gameplay despite looking similar to Hilda's (And Johanna's) gameplay, they play different, for Frida's able to use her magic spells to attack the enemies or even solve some puzzle. David and Louise, however, are kinda weak in comparation to Hilda and Frida (+ Johanna), since they have a little less health, and can't hold their breathes longer as Hilda (And Johanna), that goes for Frida too. They can also can be played as well via local co-op in the multiplayer mode.

Certain levels will also have the player control the Raven in his thunderbird form. When played, the level will switch to gameplay similar to the NiGHTS series. Also in the levels, you can interact with the characters, you can talk with them and some of them will give you random objectives to complete in the levels. After you complete an objective your reward can vary from money or some of the collectionables you find in the levels. The player can play as Johanna too, but only in Chapter 11. Her gameplay its like Hilda's, but has sightly more health and can use unique weapons such as a chainsaw. After beating the game with the normal mode, the player unlocks Johanna to be played in the levels and other boss fights.

The game's bosses are divided into three categories.

Micro Bosses.
Those enemies that are stronger than the base enemies of the game. Like Kirby, in some levels, there will be a point in the level where we will be ambushed by these guys. List of Micro Bosses.


 * 1) Rabid Vittra
 * 2) Dark Mantis
 * 3) Monster Silhouette
 * 4) Possesed Troll
 * 5) Dark Eagle
 * 6) Giant Spider

Mini Bosses
These enemies are even stronger than the micro bosses, there is only one mini boss for each chapter, and they usually only appear in each level 5 of each chapter but also can appear on another level. List of mini bosses


 * 1) Trevor And his Gang
 * 2) TBA.
 * 3) TBA.
 * 4) TBA.
 * 5) TBA.
 * 6) TBA.
 * 7) TBA.
 * 8) TBA.
 * 9) TBA.
 * 10) TBA.

Final Bosses




Main Story
A long time ago, in a cave located faraway from the city of Trolberg, a man which nickname was "The Polecat" along his henchmen "Gunther" and "Gath" were looking for a treasure that according to some people, aside from gold. It had Diamonds too! After exploring that dark cave for atleast 1 hour, they finally managed to find where the treasure was located. They dug it up and it did indeed have diamonds in the treasure. And The Polecat began doing his victory dance along Gath, but Gunther found something else inside that cave. Some kind of enormous black crystal ball was half sunken in a big puddle of water, and Gunther flooded by her curiosity went closer to the crystal ball to try checking it out. Meanwhile, The Polecat and Gath were grabbing the treasure to take it into the car, but they saw that Gunther wasn't with them, so they decided to look after her first, not knowing that some creatures were taking their treasure. When they saw her approaching the enormous black crystal ball, they tried to stop her, for that crystal ball might be dangerous or something. But just when the both of them stepped in the puddle, Gunther had already touched the crystal ball. And out of nowhere, the crystal ball started emanating a dark flash that blinded out the both of them, but Gunther couldn't stop looking at the flash, and suddendly, the water began to sink them both underwater, but before Gunther could fully sink down, The Polecat and Gath came to her rescue, but they couldn't do much to save her, for whatever was sinking her was far stronger than the both of them combined. So in a few seconds, they went down along her.

Two weeks later, a blue-haired girl named "Hilda" along her friends "David" "Frida" and "Louise" would embark on a host of extraordinary adventures, while Hilda challenged herself to put her powers to the test along her Aunt Astrid, for she was "Part" Fairy! But... Little do they know. Is that there's an even bigger adventure stored for all of them. An adventure. That they would never forget.

TBC.
TBA.

Main Story Chapters
Chapters serve as acts to the game. Each chapter consist of six levels featuring a big hub world to explore. All the chapter end with a boss fight at the sixth level which is more of a boss level.

Chapter 1: The Fairy Test
Serving as the first chapter of the game, the levels will act as tutorials for the player, instructing simple but important abilities to use later in the game, such as: combat, swimming, and using fairy powers.
 * Story: Hilda tests herself to see if she is capable of becoming a true fairy, after she finds out that she is a fourth of a fairy.

Chapter 2: The Fairy Girl

 * Story: Hilda and her friends stumble across a fairy by the name of Flora, who mysteriously ends up in the human world. They offer to help her.

Chapter 3: The Cave Station

 * Story: Flora is kidnapped by a bunch of creatures known as "The Mineral Snatchers" because they mistake her as their leader. So Hilda and company must go rescue her. Not knowing that the cave they're going was the same The Polecat and his henchmen went before.

Chapter 4: The Otherworldly Portal

 * Story: On a calmed night, a mysterious giant dark portal opens just on top of Trolberg, with paranormal and supernatural creatures coming out of it and cause mayhem in the city. So Hilda along her friends decide to try dealing with this situation and see if they could save the people from dying.

Chapter 5: The Strange Happenings

 * Story: Weird things happen in Trolberg and surrounding areas after the battle between the creatures and Hilda and company.

Chapter 6: The Forgotten Valley

 * Story: Hilda and company decide to leave Trolberg to find the "Forgotten Valley" that Flora mentions.

Chapter 7: The Mysterious Hooded "Man"

 * Story: In their way, Hilda and company would find the main responsible from all these weird phenomenons. "Orochi" A powerful hooded humanoid figure who came from another dimension.

Chapter 8: The Golden Diamond

 * Story: After the discovery of an object that could possibly stop the dark creatures, Hilda and her friends seek out to find it.

Chapter 9: The Revelations

 * Story: Hilda and company could succesfully reach the Forgotten Valley, and right there they would discover the truth behind Orochi and its race. But also discover that they have some strange connection with the Fairies from the Fairy Island.

Chapter 10: The Beginning of the End

 * Story: With the world almost in Orochi's hands, Hilda and company must get to Orochi's dimension to stop him.

Chapter 11: The Quiet Rebellion

 * Story: Hilda and company encounter new friends who also have the same goal.

Chapter 12: Desperate Measures

 * Story: Time is running out as Hilda and her friends have to find a way to get to the Dark Dimension.

Chapter 13: The End
This chapter unlike the others is the longest. Having a big hub world to explore and 9 levels, which consist of 8 platform levels, and the boss level. The eighth platform level it's more like an boss rush, because like Lava Mountain Zone 3 from Sonic Lost World, You'll have to fight again one of the previous bosses you've beaten before.


 * Story: As they entered to the Dark Dimension, Hilda knew that, the final battle with Orochi could potentially put an end with the figure's goal for universal domination. And this time, she wasn't alone. Every creature and person Hilda and company have ever meet or stumbled across, had also joined into this decisive war, Twig called the other Deerfoxes assist as well, and even Flora managed to convince the Fairy Entity at the Fairy Country to also help by bringing as many Fairies as possible, including Johanna's parents. All was set for this final showdown, that would decide the fate of two dimensions.

Into the Future
The DLC Into the Future was released in 2027, involving Hilda getting transported a century into the future, where humanity seems to have advanced a lot more than in her timeline.

Development
The game's story, as well as characters, were written and designed by Luke Pearson himself. The writers of the show also helped in handling the game's story, and the voice cast of the show reprise their roles for this game. Ryan Carlson handled the music for the game. Cutscenes featured in the game were animated by Mercury Filmworks, the studio responsible for the show's animation.

Four months after the game's release, it was announced that a free DLC pack would be adding new content into the game, including the new Co-op mode, new customization skins for Hilda and other characters, and a bonus chapter that is completely separate from the main story.

Release
A special edition of the game was released, which included the game itself, a code for a 2-month Netflix free trial, a signed copy of Hilda and the Midnight Giant, and a plush toy of Hilda manufactured by Gund. Included in the Japanese version are all the aforementioned collectibles, in addition to a character guide book, which lists the characters from the novels and the show, as well as from this game.

In 2027, a DLC pack containing a new standalone story, known as Into the Future, was released, alongside new content added into the game.

English

 * Bella Ramsey as Hilda
 * Daisy Haggard as Mum
 * Ameerah Falzon-Ojo as Frida
 * Oliver Nelson as David
 * Rasmus Hardiker as Alfur
 * Maria Darling as Flora
 * Nick Boulton as Orochi

Japanese

 * Kokoro Kikuchi as Hilda
 * Yoko Kato as Mum
 * Kanako Miyamito as Frida
 * Konomi Kohara as David
 * Takuma Sasaki as Alfur
 * Mika Kanai as Flora
 * Takehito Koyasu as Orochi

Reception
TBC.