The new game Missi from Ukrainian indie studio Yellow Fish Arts has been released on Steam. In honor of the launch, the game is available for a 20% discount, and special bundles with other popular domestic projects are also available, including Tukoni, Shapik, Fox Tail, and Boxville.
The new game Missi from Ukrainian indie studio Yellow Fish Arts has been released on Steam. In honor of the launch, the game is available for a 20% discount, and special bundles with other popular domestic projects are also available, including Tukoni, Shapik, Fox Tail, and Boxville.
The developers announced the release and start of sales on their social networks, urging the community to support the project with feedback for better promotion by the store's algorithms. Currently, Missi has only 3 reviews.
"There are initial sales, but still no reviews on Steam. Without reviews, the algorithms don't promote the game. So if you liked the game, please write a few words," explained Yellow Fish Arts.
Missi is a cozy 2D point & click adventure, made in the style of traditional watercolor drawings. According to the plot, a little white mouse Missi sets off on a journey through a magical world to collect medicinal herbs and save her sick son. The game does not contain elements of violence or competition, and dialogues are implemented using drawings without text. The main feature of the visual series is the frame-by-frame hand animation, for which the developers created over 2000 frames.
"The idea for the game appeared seven years ago as a somewhat personal project for my daughter. Mice were everywhere in the house: dozens of plush or knitted toys, books, clothes with mice on them, and much more. The first sketches appeared at the same time, but at that time the drawing skills to create a truly interesting world were sorely lacking," project artist Yevgeny Movlev told dev.ua.
In 2023, after a long creative search, Yevgeny decided to return to the idea, inspired by the watercolor style of GRIS, as well as the games Child of Light, Tukoni, Shapik, Boxville, and titles from Amanita Design.
Previously, Yellow Fish Arts did not expect to release Missi until 2027. After the release, the developers planned to focus on porting the game to other platforms and creating an artbook. In the future, the team planned to work on new small projects.
"There is a desire to create small games, and everything fictional seems too large-scale. So for now we have focused on the story about the white mouse Missy, which we hope future players will like," noted Yevgeny Movlev.
