Beeny is a video game developed by Siactro and released for Nintendo Switch and Steam in 2022. The game is a Spin-Off/prequel to Siactro's own Super Kiwi 64.
Kiwi wants to build a raft so he can set off on his adventure, but while he's gathered the logs he needs, he lacks the glue he'll need to stick them together. He asks his friend Beeny the bee for help, requesting that she gather some honey scattered throughout the woods, so Beeny ventures off to find some.
Beeny is a 2D Platform Game with pre-rendered sprite-based graphics, similar to that of the original Donkey Kong Country games. Each of the game's stages scroll upward and challenge Beeny to ascend up the branches of each tree to reach the honeyhive at the top. Along the way, Beeny must overcome a variety of obstacles, none of which can actually defeat her, but can push her backwards. As such, there's no way to lose in the initial playthrough, but clearing the game unlocks a time trial mode to add an extra layer of challenge to the simple gameplay.
Beeny provides examples of:
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: Upon clearing all the levels, the game's focus shifts from Beeny to Kiwi and follows his adventure for the final level, acting as a preview to Super Kiwi 64.
- Anti-Frustration Features: If Beeny starts to fall down, some large bees will make a platform beneath her, preventing the player from losing progress from falling too far.
- Bleak Level: Silent Visitors has a dark background, a bleak color scheme, and, at least initially, no items to decorate the environment.
- Bragging Rights Reward: While Toree's double jump makes them a superior character to Beeny, you don't unlock them until you earn 100% Completion, so all that's left to do with them is replay stages for faster times.
- Double Jump: Toree has the ability to perform a second jump while in mid-air.
- Forest of Perpetual Autumn: The first two levels take place in trees covered in orange leaves that fall down as you ascend.
- Gusty Glade: Rampaging Rains and Rising Rains both have perpetual windstorms that push Beeny in one direction for the duration of the level. The former has the wind blow to the right, while the latter has the wind blowing left.
- Hostile Weather: During Kiwi's journey to the floating island, a tornado suddenly appears and destroys his raft, leaving him stranded on the island.
- Inconveniently-Placed Conveyor Belt: Certain stages have lines of ants that will cause Beeny to be pushed in a certain direction as long as she is on top of them, interfering with her movement and potentially pushing her off the platform.
- Secret Character: Earning a time medal in every stage will unlock the ability to play as Toree.
- Sequel Hook: The game ends with a level that acts as a preview for Super Kiwi 64, showing where Kiwi ends up after he leaves and giving players a small sample of its gameplay, before ending with a message that Kiwi's adventure will continue in that game.
- Surprisingly Creepy Moment: After several levels with a colorful cartoon aesthetic, the level Silent Visitors presents a bleak environment with a dark background and no background objects. When you do find something to look at, it's a bright green human skeleton that clashes heavily against the gray background and looks more lifelike than anything else in the game. Things only get worse as you ascend, as you eventually encounter the photorealistic ghost heads that let out an ominous moan when they appear, home in on your position, and are the only enemy in the game that actually sends you back in the stage instead of merely pushing you around.
- Time Trial: Upon clearing the game, you unlock a time attack challenge for every stage. Replaying the stage will display a timer in the bottom-right with a time to beat next to it, and if you clear the stage within the allotted time, you will earn a time medal for that stage.
- Unexpected Gameplay Change: The final stage takes the spotlight away from Beeny and instead follows Kiwi on his journey to the floating island, before he crashes and ends up in a new land, where the game turns from a 2D platformer to a 3D one, where Kiwi must collect all the power cells around the level in order to finish the game. The gameplay acts as a preview to Super Kiwi 64, though it's missing some of that game's mechanics like the glide and dash attack, and Kiwi can't do much besides run and jump.
- Virtuous Bees: The game's main protagonist is a bee who just wants to gather some honey to help her friend start his journey. She can also receive help from other bees, be it ones that stop her from falling, or ones that give her a lift to higher platforms.
- Wrap Around: While Beeny herself cannot make use of this, the Spikey enemies fly from one side of the screen to the other before disappearing off one side and reappearing on the other.
