Press kit

Hoverwick: Village in the Sky

Everything you need to write about the game. Questions, keys and interviews: press@hoverwick.com.

Developer: DIOM Games, Poland
Publisher: DIOM Games
Platform: Windows 10 and 11 (Steam)
Release date: To be announced
Price: To be announced
Languages: English, Polish
Genre: Cozy idle city builder, desktop companion
Website: hoverwick.com
Steam: Store page coming soon
Press contact: press@hoverwick.com
Pronunciation: HUV-er-wick (“hover” + “-wick”, the old English word for a settlement)

In one sentence

Hoverwick is a cozy idle city builder from Polish studio DIOM Games: a medieval village on a 3D floating island that lives on your Windows desktop and keeps working while you do.

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Short description

A cozy idle city builder that lives on your desktop. Grow a medieval village on a 3D island floating above your open windows, link 180+ goods into production chains and expand into a sky archipelago. Your villagers keep working while you do, even when the game is closed.

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About the game

Hoverwick lives right on your screen. A small 3D island hovers above your open windows: park it in a corner, zoom in on the market square or let it drift beside your work. Clicks on empty space pass straight through to your apps, so the village keeps you company while you write, code, study or browse.

Fields, mills and workshops run in real time. Close the game and your villagers carry on at full pace for 12 hours, then at half pace for up to a day. 162 buildings and 184 goods connect into production chains, from grain, malt and beer to the wings and armour of the winged hussars. Expeditions from the lighthouse discover up to five more islands, each with its own trade: a farm, a castle, a mine, a market town and the workshops of master craftsmen.

Key features

Lives on your desktop: a transparent window that lets clicks through to your apps. Place and zoom the island anywhere, on any monitor, or tuck it into a bubble (Ctrl+Alt+O).
A real-time economy that keeps running while the game is closed.
162 buildings, 184 goods and six kinds of islands.
Trade rules, a market, a port with merchant islands, merchant balloons and a research guild.
Four seasons, weather, storms, day and night; villagers who build snowmen, go sledding and fish through the ice.
Over 150 decorations, rivers, waterfalls and lava.
Optional army with winged hussars and auto-battles you can replay.
48 Steam achievements.

Images

In-game island renders with the background removed (the game runs in a transparent window). Higher-resolution screenshots and the trailer will be added before the Steam page goes live.