Hazard Pay heading to Nintendo Switch

Today, Numskull Games and Smitner Studio announced that they’re bringing Hazard Pay to Nintendo Switch. This one is launching in June.

Hazard Pay is a dystopian pixel-art block-pushing puzzle game. In it, a shadowy client has hired you to navigate a network of hazardous secret labs.

More information can be found in the following overview:

It’s 1982 and you’ve been beckoned to a secretive research facility in an authoritarian Cold War-era state. Hazard Pay puts you in the shoes of a government cleanup specialist dispatched after a catastrophic containment breach. The mission seems simple: destroy evidence, restore order, and collect your hazard pay. But inside the facility, the truth behind the experiments quickly begins to surface, and reality is far more sinister.

The officials want silence, not survivors

Inside the Institut für Proteintherapie (IPT), a government program intended to solve a national food crisis has spiralled into a biological horror. Resident scientists who were attempting to synthesise artificial proteins have created horrific ███████████████ that now ████ ██████ around the facility. Navigate laboratories, dormitories, and experimental chambers while encountering the terrifying results of these experiments.

You’ll cross paths with PRS-86, a blind predator that tracks blood with lethal precision, and The Collector, an evolving organism that has grown beyond the control of its creators.

As the clean-up specialist, you are only one of many expendable workers sent in to contain the situation. If you die, another will replace you.

Players must:

• Navigate across sectors of the research facility
• Avoid deadly bio-organisms that hunt through scent and sound
• Decide the fate of trapped scientists

Will you become just another disposable tool of the system, or be the one to finally expose the crimes hidden inside the facility?

Key Features

• Ingenious, compact, handcrafted push/pull puzzle levels
• Unique clean-up mechanics – erase blood trails, destroy evidence, and hide the truth
• Branching narrative choices that affect alliances, trust, and endings
• Environmental storytelling, uncovering the secrets of the facility

The official trailer is available below. 

Official Trailer

We’ll update you with the exact release date once that’s in. For now, find more Nintendo Switch coverage here.