Hiveswap: Act 1 review — a very internet adventure game based on the hit webcomic Homestuck

It’s been more than eight years since Andrew Hussie first created his sprawling, self-referential, surreal webcomic Homestuck. By the time it ended on April 13, 2016, it had captured the hearts and imaginations of what felt like the entirety of the social media site Tumblr. It inspired cosplayers, fanart, and fan videos, and it once crashed Newgrounds because over a million people swarmed to view Hussie’s upload of a single-page update. Suffice it to say, its fanbase was massive.

Occasional hiatuses and “gigapauses” punctuated its run, and in the midst of all that, Hussie launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2012 for a Homestuck video game: Hiveswap. It raised nearly $2.5 million. Its developer is What Pumpkin Games, and now it’s finally here.