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Haiki

Haiki is the BRUTAL precision platformer where decapitation is just the beginning! Dive head-first into four worlds of colour-switching, laser-dodging, lightning-fast action. Haiki is the platformer where you don't need a body to get ahead.

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Developer
Richard Hörnig
Publisher
Application Systems Heidelberg
Release
October 26, 2021
4 years and 280 days ago
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Positive38 reviews97.4%

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About the Game

A BRUTAL precision platformer where decapitation is just the beginning!


Haiki is a diamond-hard platformer that rewards skilful play and punishes errors MERCILESSLY. Dive head-first into four worlds of colour-switching, laser-dodging, lightning-fast action.
You control Haiki's severed head, on an epic journey to defeat the slash-happy Baron Nohead. Leap from wall-to-wall, across chasms, over spikes... into oblivion. You’ll need precision jumps and keen reactions to survive the 80 hand-crafted levels standing between Haiki and victory.

Die, die and die again until your reflexes are sharp enough to face the headless Baron and get your body back.

Or lose your head forever.

Want to get ahead? Get a hat! Collect dapper, dashing and dandy hats on your journey up from the gutter. How do the hats help Haiki on his quest?

They don't. AT ALL.

They're just hats.

Features

  • Fast-paced, intuitive, limb-free platforming
  • 80 levels, from EASY to PURE HELL
  • A story that makes Shakespeare look like an idiot
  • Speedrun mode for the truly hardcore
  • Collectible hats for the truly awesome
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