Physical Editions of the Award-Winning Action-Puzzler HUMANITY® Coming to North America via Limited Run Games
Physical Editions of the Award-Winning Action-Puzzler HUMANITY® Coming to North America via Limited Run Games
Pre-orders for this limited release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox begin on July 16
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – July 9, 2024 – Enhance and tha ltd. are excited to reveal that the highly praised puzzle-platformer HUMANITY, created by visionary designer Yugo Nakamura (tha) and renowned creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Enhance), will be available in physical editions through Limited Run Games. Pre-orders for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox versions ($39.99 USD MSRP) start on July 16, 2024, on limitedrungames.com.
Players can reserve their copy from July 16 – August 18 here: https://limitedrungames.com/collections/humanity
Lauded by fans as reminiscent of late ’90s/early ‘00s creator-led video games from Japan, this special physical edition includes a soundtrack download code card designed to mimic the popular telephone card trend of that era. The soundtrack, redeemed via Bandcamp, includes the full 26-track soundtrack composed by electronic musician and sound designer JEMAPUR. It also includes a special Companion Booklet featuring a developer message from creator Yugo Nakamura, game information, and strategies for players looking to get the most from their game experience.
PHYSICAL VERSION INFORMATION FOR HUMANITY
Platforms: PlayStation 5 (optional PS VR2 compatibility), Xbox (Xbox One/Xbox Series)
Pre-order dates: July 16 – August 18 on limitedrungames.com
Projected release: Holiday 2024
MSRP: $39.99
Included extras: Retro-style Telephone Card (“teleca”) Soundtrack Download Card, Companion Booklet
Since the game’s initial release in May 2023, HUMANITY has garnered over 40 Best of the Year awards and nominations.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- Best Games of the Year, #4, The EDGE Awards 2023
- 2023’s Best Puzzle Game, Game Informer
- Indie Game of the Year, Shacknews
- The 50 Best Video Games of 2023, #24, Polygon
- Best Reviewed Games of 2023 (9 out of 10), IGN
- The 10 Best Games of 2023, Jacob Geller
- VR Game of the Year Winner, The EDGE Awards 2023
- Best VR / AR Game Nominee, The Game Awards 2023
- Metascore: 86
…and more!
KEY FEATURES
- WORK LIKE A DOG: HUMANITY is a third-person puzzle-action game where you become a dog to command massive, marching crowds of people to jump, turn, push, float, shoot, and climb their way to salvation across 90 story-mode stages.
- READY, AND…ACTION! Devious puzzles and strategic thinking is broken up with more action-focused elements and platformer-like levels, even some epic boss battles!
- UGC = USER-GENERATED CONTENT, UNLIMITED GRATIFYING CHALLENGES: Browse an ever-growing library of stages created by other players. Play, rate, and discover new types of puzzles in this limitless vault.
- CREATE AND SHARE LEVELS: Use the intuitive Stage Creator to bring your ideas to life, whether it’s a straightforward puzzle, action stage, or even an artful sculpture!
HUMANITY COMMUNITY EVENTS
- Every Wednesday, the HUMANITY Hub Community Stream showcases user-made stages on Twitch. Watch how they’re played at twitch.tv/EnhanceExperience. The community’s most beloved stages will battle it out in the annual Goldy Awards.
- Join the Enhance Discord at discord.gg/enhance to participate in monthly Stage Jams which encourage the community to make stages based on a central theme.
ABOUT HUMANITY
In HUMANITY, you control a glowing Shiba Inu, placing commands on the ground for a giant marching horde of people to follow. Make them turn, jump, float through the air, swim, climb, etc., all to reach the goal (or goals) in each stage. The game gradually introduces these mechanics and more, combining them with each other and new elements to ramp up the challenge the further you go.
ABOUT YUGO NAKAMURA
HUMANITY is Yugo Nakamura’s (and his studio tha’s) first foray into video game development.
Nakamura is a celebrated web and interface designer, motion director, and professor at Tama Art University in Tokyo. His credits include web design direction for global apparel brand UNIQLO, user interface design for KDDI’s smartphone “INFOBAR,” direction of NHK educational program “Design Ah!” and numerous other websites and film projects. More information on tha’s work can be found here.
Nakamura’s work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Cannes International Advertising Awards Grand Prix, the Tokyo Interactive Ad Award Grand Prix, the TDC Grand Prix, the Mainichi Design Award, and The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists.
HUMANITY (Official Soundtrack) by JEMAPUR
Hailed by Pitchfork as one of 2023’s Best Indie Video Game Scores, HUMANITY (Official Soundtrack) is available to purchase on Bandcamp and Steam or find it everywhere you listen – Spotify, Apple Music and more!
HUMANITY (Original Soundtrack) is a sonic exploration of the game where you become a dog to command massive, marching crowds of people to jump, turn, push, float, shoot, and climb their way to salvation. The soundtrack contains 26 tracks and features a variety of instrumental, experimental, and ambient electronic tracks that uses harmonic vocal samples and live-coding to perfectly capture the game’s epic scope and emotional depth.
ABOUT JEMAPUR
JEMAPUR is a wave addict, electronic musician, sound designer and coder.
His obsession with the sensations created by frequencies and waves has led to various experimentation and research in areas that not only influence but extend the perceptual and cognitive activities of the experiencer. His method? By using modular synthesizers to create phenomena as sound ecosystems that continue to transform in time in space.
JEMAPUR has composed music for a number of films and exhibitions, including the documentary film “Tower of the Sun” (2018) and the month-long exhibition “RESONANCE: Synesthesia + Feedback” in 2019 at De School in Amsterdam with the sculptor Victoria Galvani. He has also released several albums, including “Mode Cleaner” on Omen Wapta in 2021 and three albums on UN_N in 2023.