- 50% Off For the First Time + New Community Items! - 2 May 2026
Hey there hikers! It's hard to believe it, but it's been seven years since the debut of A Short Hike. I'm sincerely grateful for your support over the years, it's been life changing for me. For the next week A Short Hike will be 50% off on Steam. To celebrate the promotion, we've added Steam Trading Cards and all the community items that come with them! If you like the items, be sure to check out the artists behind them: The art for the trading cards ⬆️ was created by the amazing Saffron Aurora from Kitten Cup Studio. The lovely profile backgrounds ⬇️ were created by the fantastic artist Miski. The new emoticons were created by myself and Dawn Blair. Hope you all have a warm spring this May! - Adam
- Controller Compatibility Patch - 5 December 2023
Version 1.11.17 This patch should improve controller support for more controllers. It also features a new Cyrillic and Chinese font set for modders.
- Game Pass gets a blast of indie awesomeness with Broforce Forever, A Short Hike, Limbo, and more - 2 August 2023
The latest batch of games coming to Game Pass in August have been announced. As you no doubt noted by the headline, three of these games are Broforce Forever, A Short Hike, and Limbo. But there's more: Airborne Kingdom, Celeste, and Everspace 2 are coming too. Read more
- Plush now available from Fangamer! - 1 August 2023
Hey everybody! Ranger May here. Take a look at this adorable plush version of my niece by the nice folks over at Fangamer! https://www.fangamer.com/cdn/shop/files/product_ASH_claire_plush_photo2.jpg?v=1689635762 Isn't she just the sweetest? Now you can get your very own Claire over at Fangamer.com along with the other great merchandise from Hawk Peak. Happy Hiking!
- Death Stranding is leaving Game Pass, while A Short Hike and Limbo join - 1 August 2023
Microsoft have announced the next batch of games coming to Game Pass, and just like the last line-up , indie gems are carrying this fortnight’s offerings. August begins with venerated A Short Hike , which crosses paths with fellow hiker Death Stranding on its way off the Game Pass mega mountain. Read more
- Relaxing walking game A Short Hike has a 99 person multiplayer mod now - 2 April 2022
A Short Hike was one of the hidden gems of PC Gaming in 2019 , a relaxing indie about a bird going on a walk/glide/swim around a nice big park to find all kinds of neat, pretty things as they go. A super-chilled exploration and adventure game with a few puzzles to figure out and all kinds of collectables to amass... Read more.
- An April Fools Multiplayer Experiment - 1 April 2022
NOTE: This event has ended. The multiplayer server is not currently online. So, a friend thought it would be funny if I announced A Short Hike Battle Royale for April Fools. I was like, "ha - what a funny concept" ...and then started tinkering with multiplayer code. And now today, you can try A Short Hike 99 - a downloadable multiplayer mod. This won't ever be an official mode for the game, but I wanted to share the results of this experiment with you all somehow. So it's a mod! With it installed, you'll be able to see up to 99 other players who are playing it at the same time. You can check it out using the Betas tab in the game's Steam properties. I'm going to keep the multiplayer server up for about 2 weeks. You can read more about it here: https://adamgryu.itch.io/a-short-hike-99-online-mod Maybe I'll see you on the island! Have a good April everyone, I'm looking forward to this war…
- Steam Deck Support - 31 March 2022
This is just a little patch that fixes some issues the game has when running on the Steam Deck. Patch Notes: - Fixed an issue where keyboard glyphs would show up on the start screen even when a controller was plugged in. - Mouse movement alone no longer causes the game to switch from gamepad to keyboard controls. - An in-game license text window is now used when a controller is plugged in.
- Update Notes for November 16th - 16 November 2021
Added 4 new achievements to the game to coincide with the Xbox and PlayStation release.
- The wonderful A Short Hike steps forth onto PlayStation and Xbox next week - 13 November 2021
A Short Hike hits PlayStation and Xbox on 16th November. Adam Robinson-Yu's A Short Hike, one of the very best games of 2019, is already out on PC and Nintendo Switch. Its launch on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One means players on PS4 Pro, PS5, Xbox One X and Series S and X can experience A Short Hike in 4K. Christian Donlan reviewed A Short Hike for us, awarding it a coveted Essential badge . Read more
- A Short Hike is now playable in Brazilian Portuguese! - 1 February 2021
This patch adds an official Brazilian Portuguese translation to the game! Thanks to Marcos and Wilson for handling the translation. There's also a few bug fixes sprinkled in here or there, but nothing to write home about. Take care! - Adam
- The Boating Update is out NOW on PC and Nintendo Switch! - 18 August 2020
The question has divided enthusiasts for decades: Is boating a form of hiking? Well, regardless of where you stand on the subject - you can now take a detour to cruise the waters yourself in A Short Hike! To celebrate the Switch release of the game, I'm releasing a small free content update to all current platforms! Just drop by the local rental shop and the boat can be yours for the whole afternoon! Speed around the waters of Hawk Peak Provincial Park with style in this totally adequate 2003 aluminium motorboat! Thanks for playing, and take care! - Adam
- Version 1.7 - Frequently Asked Features - 29 June 2020
Hey there! Hope you're doing well and staying safe. It's been a while since the last update! Since then, A Short Hike has won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and the Audience Award at the 2020 Independent Games Festival! It still feels surreal to me, but I wanted to thank everyone who played and shared my game. I also want to give credit to Dawn Blair, Mark Sparling, Andrew Wong, and David Czarnowski, since the game wouldn't have been the same without their contributions and support. So, the update today includes a number of optimizations, bug fixes, and a few commonly requested features. If anyone spots any new bugs in this build, please let me know! Multilingual Support I've added an official French and Spanish translation to the game. It should detect your computer's language settings, but if not, you can change the language from the options menu. I might add more official translation…
- Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality ends with a stunning $8.1m raised - 16 June 2020
The Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality has been a stunning success, raising $8.1m for funds supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. The bundle, which contained more than 1700 games donated by their creators, was bought by over 810,000 people, raising $8,175,430 - well over its $5m target. The average contribution was $10.30. The top contribution was $5000. The Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality was widely considered to be the best value bundle in video game history, not just because it had so many games included, but because of the quality of some of the games included. Indie darlings Night in The Woods, Overland, Minit, Oxenfree, Celeste, Super Hexagon, A Short Hike and 2064: Read Only Memories were all donated by their developers. Read more
- Got Animal Crossing FOMO? Play A Short Hike instead - 11 June 2020
Red Dead Redemption 2 may be a good Animal Crossing substitute for people suffering from AC-FOMO at the moment, but I’d argue that the best PC stand-in for Nintendo’s cozy life sim is Adamgryu’s A Short Hike , which you can currently get on the cheap as part of Itch’s stupidly good value Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality . Indeed, it made the long wait until Animal Crossing: New Horizons that bit shorter when I gorged myself on it over the Christmas holidays last year, and I often find myself returning to it even now. Despite being infinitely smaller in stature than Animal Crossing, my frequent dips into this cosy island jaunt became a bit like opening a tin of Cadbury Heroes, promising myself I’d have just the one and then an hour later finding the entire box had mysteriously disappeared in a puff of plastic wrappers. I just couldn’t get enough…
- Get 742 games with Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality on itch.io from $5 / 4 - 8 June 2020
itch.io's creator has launched what is probably the largest bundle ever in its efforts to support the Black Lives Matter movement. Partnered with 564 creators, the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality comes with a whopping 742 DRM-free titles in total, valued at over $3,400 ( 2,675), but which you can have the whole lot by paying however much you want, with donations starting at a minimum of $5 ( 4). It's already raised over $2 million ( 1.5 million) since launching over the weekend with a goal to reach $5 million before the offer ends on 15th June. All proceeds go towards the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail Fund split 50/50 in the important fight against racial injustice, inequality, and police brutality against black people. Read more
- Itch raises funds for racial justice with a 700+ game bundle - 6 June 2020
This weekend, indie-centric storefront Itch.io kicked off their massive Bundle For Racial Justice And Equality . Pulling together a collection of 749 (and counting) indie darlings, hobby projects and unsung curiosities for a meagre $5, Itch’s massive bundle has currently raised well over $400,000 for legal defence funds across the United States – and there’s no sign of slowing down anytime soon. (more…)
- Up Close: Mountains, mindfulness, and metaphysics: the supreme realism of Lonely Mountains: Downhill and A Short Hike - 2 May 2020
Up Close is a new, occasional and informal series here on Eurogamer, looking at the smaller points in games in greater amounts of depth. Covering anything from a single mechanic to a reoccurring theme, in praise or criticism, the aim is simply to look a little closer at the things that deserve our attention. Increasingly, games are looking to the environment to tell their stories. It's easy enough to see why. On one side the natural world is moving closer and closer to the centre of our thought, as the climate crisis becomes more urgent and less easy to ignore. On the other, it becomes a great device for telling a story of impending, existential disaster - or indeed one of the hope to be found in the aftermath. And, above all, pretty environments sell. But alongside the rise of environmentally aware games is a little micro-surge of environmentally conscious ones. Which is to say, games…
- A Short Hike wins the IGF Grand Prize - 19 March 2020
While the Game Developers Conference is not happening this week, postponed by Covid-19 health concerns, its two big awards shows went ahead on livestream. The vile waterfowl of Untitled Goose Game ran off with the coveted Game Of The Year Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards (more on that later), and the chill A Short Hike scooped the Grand Prize at the Independent Games Festival Awards. A Short Hike and fellow winner Mutazione are both free for keepsies on another few hours too. If you enjoy having your preferences validated by awards from distinguished-sounding bodies, read on! (more…)
- A Short Hike, Anodyne 2 and Mutazione are free for keeps on Epic this week - 12 March 2020
It’s freebie o’clock on the Epic Games Store once again. This week’s a proper bonanza, too. Between A Short Hike , Anodyne 2: Return to Dust and Mutazione , there’s no shortage of familiar and fantastical indie worlds to poke around in. All three are free to add to your library for good ’til March 19th, when they’ll be slapped back to full price to make way for The Stanley Parable and Watch Dogs . (more…)
