Canadian studio LABS Works has released its new 8-bit adventure video game Lovish, about a knight searching for a princess. Players have found references to Ukraine in it.
Canadian studio LABS Works has released its new 8-bit adventure video game Lovish, about a knight searching for a princess. Players have found references to Ukraine in it.
Lovish is an «outrageous» adventure game where you have to go through over 50 miniature rooms, slashing monsters and collecting items on your way to the exit. After completing a level in each room, a short random story appears «in which anything can happen.»
LABS is a team of video game developers and music creators founded by Canadian Matt Capp in 2018. He released the game Castle In The Darkness, and then, together with the team, created the 8-bit exploration platformer Astalon: Tears Of The Earth.
«Lovish, a new game from Matt Capp, is out today, and now you have no excuse not to play it,»wrote Twitter user X, who goes by the nickname inditropolis.
He added a short video to his post, showing that in Lovish you can listen to a stylized version of the song «Hey, Falcons!», which is popular in Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belarus, and Lithuania.
According to the most popular version, the music is based on the song «Pity for Ukraine» written by composer Maciej Kamensky. «Hey, Falcons» tells the story of a Cossack who went abroad and longs for his homeland and his girlfriend.
Lovish, a new game from @MattKap1 @LABSworks, is out today, and now you have no excuse not to play it pic.twitter.com/EbOB7Lht6R
— inditropolis (@inditropolis) February 5, 2026
«I’m glad you were able to see it! And listen,» Matt Capp commented in Ukrainian on the inditropolis post.
Lovish has a Steam page that lists support for Ukrainian localization. In Ukraine, the game currently costs 292 UAH.
