The Chinese Room Releases New Feature-Length Episode For Little Orpheus: ‘A Rush Of Onion To The Head’

15 January 2021 | The Chinese Room, a Sumo Digital studio, has today released a brand-new episodic adventure for Apple Arcade platformer Little Orpheus. The game’s ninth episode, A Rush of Onion to the Head, takes players on another incredible, mind-bending journey with calamitous cosmonaut Ivan Ivanovic.

Watch the new launch trailer: https://youtu.be/9LRD9tMmSU0

Little Orpheus is a technicolor narrative platformer inspired by a bygone era of adventure, from the BAFTA award-winning team behind Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture and Dear Esther. In this latest feature-length episode, players embark on a fantastical new journey with Ivan as he travels back to the surface from the centre of the Earth.

Along the way Ivan finds himself in the mythical city of Perun, where something is amiss. The city’s once immaculate vistas have been corrupted by pollution, but this isn’t the kind of pollution you’d find on the surface. No, this pollution is a twenty-foot-high clone of Ivan!

To save the city, Ivan must use the gusty winds of Perun to fly high and wide throughout the cityscape to reach his only hope of defeating the towering clone: a flying mechanical fish that shoots onions!

“Ivan’s return journey from the centre of the earth was alluded to at the end of the original release last year, but it really needs to be seen to be believed,” said The Chinese Room’s Creative Director Dan Pinchbeck. “We wanted to give this final chapter time and attention it deserved, and we’re excited it’s finally out there for players to enjoy.”

This new episode includes additional content for ‘The Lost Recordings’ collectibles mode as well. Added in the game’s first major update in October, the mode adds collectibles including concept art, new music and more than 100 freshly recorded lines of dialogue.

This latest update also adds optimisation for Apple Silicon.

Little Orpheus is available now to all Apple Arcade subscribers.

Apple Arcade is a ground-breaking game subscription service available within the App Store, offering users unlimited access to a catalogue of more than 100+ games, all playable across iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and Apple TV.

For more information and to download the press kit visit: littleorpheus.com

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