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Push and Pull your way through this heartfelt adventure! Fin, the mechanical whale you call home, is plagued by mischievous Squiddies. As Ernest Hemingwhale you set out on a Fin-tastic journey to help your friend with his unexpected guests.
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Review score: 100% on 2026-11-01 → 100% today (23 reviews)
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- Fixed an issue where players were unable to access the options menu after manually resizing the window
Thank you everyone for playing reporting bugs, if you encountered any - here's the next set of fixes! Patch notes: - Added the ability to delete your savegame from MainMenu->Options->Game Settings - Improved performance in final level - More minor bugfixes
Hey everyone, thank you so much for playing WHALIEN! We've addressed a few issues that came up during the release. Patch notes: Prevent players from manually toggling fullscreen mode using F11 Fixed bug in video options menu Fixed some minor gameplay bugs
This time we have more of an announcement than development insights. Starting this week, we are going to take a break from our biweekly DevLog because WHALIEN is entering a crucial development stage. But don’t worry, when we return in fall we will have some ex…
Hi! SongofSoil is hosting a speedrun Contest for WHALIEN - Unexpected Guests. SongofSoil is an avid member of the speedrun community over on speedruns.com and is offering a challenge for those who love speedrunning! The Event starts on March 5th and ends on Ma…
We’ve been eagerly awaiting this moment! After a ton of concepting, designing, programming and testing, WHALIEN - Unexpected Guests is finally ready for the public. We are so happy to finally have all of you playing the game and hearing your feedback! Release …
There are unexpected guests on the Doorstep! In WHALIEN you Push and Pull your way through a heartfelt adventure! Fin, the mechanical whale you call home, is plagued by mischievous Squiddies. As Ernest Hemingwhale you set out on a Fin-tastic journey to help yo…
WHALE HELLO AGAIN! For the second time ever, we are going to do a Developer Livestream on Saturday 8th October! Join us playing the Demo of WHALIEN - Unexpected Guests LIVE directly on Steam! We are going to play through the demo a few time and will talk about…
Hi! Here are a few things we would like to share with all the people interested in trying the new demo for WHALIEN - Unexpected Guests. Please be aware that the game is still in development and some things are still expected to change. You might also encounter…
Hi everyone! HERE IS THE BROADCAST LINK https://steamcommunity.com/broadcast/watch/76561198047591323 We are going to do a Developer Stream on Wednesday 5th October! (9am PST, 12pm EST, 6pm CEST) Join us playing the Demo of WHALIEN - Unexpected Guests LIVE dire…
WHALIEN - Unexpected Guests has a brand new DEMO just in time for Next Fest! Push and Pull your way through our heartfelt adventure and delve into a world full of charming little details. Fin, the mechanical whale you call home, is plagued by mischievous Squid…
Throughout WHALIEN, there are lots of actions that are triggered when the player (or any other character/object) reaches a designated area. Such actions can be noticeable for the player - like triggering a scripted sequence or the camera zooming out - but some…
Idea Last time we described our SpringPeople in all their different variations. Since some of them are important for the main story, to guide the player towards important POIs they need to be able to move around the place. To this end, we came up with a rail s…
(Happy Springies enjoying their vacation) Idea Since all human inhabitants except for Ernest have left Fin, his interiors would feel a bit empty without anyone else around. To counteract this, we came up with the SpringPeople, automatons that were built by Ern…
In this final entry of our core ability series, we will cover our WhaliumComponent. Every object in WHALIEN can be made influenceable by Ernest’s “magnetic” abilities through adding a WhaliumComponent to it. The thought behind the component was to unify how we…
After we’ve covered Ernest’s glove in the last post, we will now take a closer look at our pearl magnets, Mrs Pull and Mr Push as we call them. While Ernest can only manipulate objects in his direct surroundings with the gloves, he can throw Mrs Pull and Mr Pu…
In the next few weeks, we are finally going to talk you through the core mechanics of our game. WHALIEN is all about pushing and pulling. For this, our protagonist Ernest Hemingwhale owns a set of gloves to grab and push away objects in his vicinity. Later, he…
In WHALIEN, Ernest communicates with Fin using the phonebook he’s always carrying with him. We took this as an opportunity to convey our story in a more charming way than regular subtitles, by displaying the conversations between the two as text chats. (Basic …
As you may know, the whale that WHALIEN takes place in is infested by slimy little Squiddies - it’s why the player takes on his adventure in the first place. In order to properly convey the infestation, we needed to be able to place large masses of Squiddies t…
Idea: In order to make the world of WHALIEN more lively and immersive, we decided to make our music diegetic, meaning that the audio sources are actually located in the world. We accomplished this by placing loudspeakers all over our levels. So, the players ca…
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