The Bad Kids
- Release date: Jan 18 2023 2023
- Developer: Aluba Studio
- Genre: Adventure , Indie , Visual Novel
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The Bad Kids is a hybrid of horror, adventure and puzzle game. Here you need to explore locations, communicate with characters, solve riddles, run away from maniacs, participate in scenes with QTEs, collect evidence, have fun in mini-games and conduct a detective investigation. There are also boss battles. The Chinese project stands out for its visual style. It has hand-drawn graphics with an oriental flavor that combines 2D and 3D. The camera is located on the side most of the time. When solving some puzzles, the perspective switches to a first-person view. You will have to manage a schoolboy who has serious problems with family, friends, studies and socialization. This teenager experiences unimaginable nightmares in the cruel world of adults.
Bad Kids is an adaptation of the Chinese drama of the same name. The TV show itself is based on a novel by writer Zi Jin Chen with the exact same name. The series is also known under the alternative name The Bad Kids in China and abroad. The narrative in the video game adaptation differs from the original in an extended story. The developers came up with new storylines. They divided everything into 5 chapters. At the same time, the creators retained the original setting. In the original script, three high school students witnessed a murder and recorded the crime on camera, which ultimately brought them a lot of trouble. In the video game, a character named Zhu Chaoyang also happened upon a terrible incident and then turned into one of the suspects.