# Hiveswap Friendsim \- Volume Five

Summer DB entity ID: 271b6cb2\-95e0\-45c1\-aa52\-33cbb5e470bb

Steam App ID: 878920

Coming in hot and fresh from a distant galaxy to the digital media platform of your choice, it’s Hiveswap Friendsim Vol\. 5\! Now with two new trolls to friend and be friended by\. Delve deeper into the hostile urban landscape of an alien world as you brush up on your Alternian culture\. Experience thrills, chills, and perhaps even a little something extra as you swim the murky waters of troll romance\. Bet you didn’t see that coming, huh? Romance, in a friendship simulator? Unheard of\. People don’t romance their friends, that’s crazy talk\.   Though it might not be what you’d expect—this romance you weren’t expecting, that is\. So it might just be what you expected after all\.  Sufficiently confused? Good\. Throw down that dollar and allow us to explain\.  \-\-\-  You just crash\-landed on Alternia, and you’re  DESPERATE  for friendship\! Anyone will do\.\.\.wait, who are those two trolls approaching you?  The  Hiveswap Friendsim  is a quick, loosely\-canonical visual novel adventure following the efforts of the unnamed protagonist \(that’s you\!\) to survive and maybe even thrive on the harsh surface of ALTERNIA\. Set in the time of  Hiveswap: Act 1 , this episodic visual novel’s opening volume, written by  Homestuck  creator  Andrew Hussie , is sure to satisfy  Homestuck  and  Hiveswap  fans who are eager for a darker stroll across the Alternian landscape\.   Future episodes will arrive regularly as DLC\.

## Game information

- Type: dlc

- Developer: What Pumpkin Games, Inc\.

- Publisher: Fellow Traveller

- Release date: Jun 8, 2018

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: 833040

- Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation

- Categories: Single\-player, Downloadable Content, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/878920/ss\_a18fd6be49681ef3c095a6d106b061d70dd040e2\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1564506845, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/878920/ss\_b7c73f90ea8c0d024034202262e6f27766e69de5\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1564506845, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/878920/ss\_e6a8731147f2b156274f742921162b2a17492d2c\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1564506845

- Price: Not collected

- Price country: Not collected

## Observed metrics

- Current players: Not collected

- Steam review count: 29

- Steam positive reviews: 28

- Steam negative reviews: 1

- Steam positive percentage: 96.55172413793103%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

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Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-23T15:18:07\.647999\+00:00

- Player count observed: Not collected

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-23T15:18:11\.039684\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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