Press kit

Everything you need to write about Hugstorm. Questions or a review build? Email support@playhugstorm.com.

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Fact sheet

Game
Hugstorm (App Store listing: Hugstorm: Cozy Crowd Battle)
Developer & publisher
AC Beauty to Customer UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Germany
Platforms
iPhone, iPad (iOS 16.4+) and Android (8.0+)
Released
15 October 2026
Download
App Store · Google Play
Price
Free, with optional in-app purchases. No paid random items.
Languages
English, German
Age rating
4+
Website
playhugstorm.com
Press contact
support@playhugstorm.com

About the game

Short (100 words): Hugstorm is a cozy crowd battler for iPhone, iPad and Android. Hold to pour a storm of Pips, tiny creatures with a sprout on their heads, from your Seed Pot, slide to aim them through gates that multiply your crowd, and hug the Glums, grumpy grey creatures marching down the meadow, instead of fighting them — nobody gets hurt. Every hug grows a flower and brings colour back to the valley. Between battles, players restore their village, the Grove, and collect Guardians, our own creatures that fuse an animal with a garden object. 1,000 levels, weekly leagues and a season pass keep it fresh. Free to play, kid-safe by design.

Long (300 words): Hugstorm is a cozy crowd battler where nobody gets hurt. Hold to pour a storm of Pips, tiny creatures with a sprout on their heads, from your Seed Pot, slide to aim them through gates that multiply them, and watch one Pip become hundreds. The Glums, grumpy grey creatures, march down the meadow, and every Pip that meets one opens its mitten arms and hugs it. The Glum cheers up, a flower grows, and colour sweeps back over the valley in a wave. It takes the satisfying one-thumb crowd genre and makes it gentle, bright and warm for every age.

Between battles, players restore their village, the Grove: the Seed Hall, Bakery, Workshop, Nursery, Beehive and Well come back to life. They collect Guardians, our own creatures that fuse an animal with a garden object, like Lumi, a hedgehog with a lantern, and grow them into a team. 1,000 levels, bosses on every Gloom Keep, a weekly Garden League, the Pollen Race, a weekend Bloom Rush and a 28-day Grove Pass keep it fresh.

Built for kids and families from day one. An age screen plus Apple's and Google's age-signal APIs (the stricter one wins) sets the rules: players under 13 see only voluntary, child-directed, non-personalised reward videos and no pop-up offers or countdowns; teens see only non-personalised ads. Purchase approval is left to Apple's and Google's family settings (Ask to Buy, Family Link). Chests are earned, never sold, and every shop item shows exactly what is inside.

Accessibility: Reduce Motion is respected from the first frame, plus text size up to 130%, left-hand mode, tap-to-fire (no holding needed), high-contrast gates and separate sound, music and haptics toggles.

Hugstorm ships in English and German and runs on iPhone and iPad in any window size, portrait or landscape, and on Android. It came out on 15 October 2026.

Key features

  • One-thumb play: hold, slide, hug.
  • A crowd that grows from one pip to hundreds in seconds.
  • Guardians to collect and grow — animals fused with garden objects, our own design.
  • 1,000 levels and a boss on every Gloom Keep.
  • A village, the Grove, to bring back to life one building at a time.
  • A weekly Garden League, the Pollen Race, daily quests and a seasonal Grove Pass.
  • Free to play: chests are earned, never sold, and every shop item shows exactly what is inside.
  • No paid random items, no tracking or personalised ads for children, and English + German at launch.

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