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Every new PC trailer shown at Thunderful WorldIncluding a new SteamWorld, Cursed To Golf, and more
Including a new SteamWorld, Cursed To Golf, and more
Thunderful World took place tonight. It offered a look at several games from Thunderful, the biggest of which was anew SteamWorld third-person co-op action game. Below you’ll find that and every other game from the show that is headed to PC.
SteamWorld Headhunter
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SteamWorld leaps to another new genre, and this time it’s a third-person co-op action platformer. There’s very little known about it at this stage, but it takes place right after the eventsSteamWorld Dig 2and it seems to involve being able to detach your head. Interesting! Every SteamWorld game so far has been great, and it’s great they’re making another.
The Gunk
The Gunk - Gameplay TrailerWatch on YouTube
The Gunk - Gameplay Trailer
Wavetale
Wavetale - Stadia Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube
Wavetale - Stadia Launch Trailer
Wavetalewassurprise-launched on Stadia today. It’s a third-person action adventure in which you play Sigrid, a girl who can run and slide on water, with platforming and combat taking place on islands and ruins you discover. Its movement has a lovely sense of momentum in the trailer above. It’ll come to PC properly in 2022.
Togges
Togges - Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube
Togges - Announcement Trailer
Pronounced “Tog - Ess”, Togges is a puzzle platformer in which you seem to control a roomba who can spread, stack, and hoover-up cubes. With this toolset, you solve physicsy traversal puzzles across “open-ended levels”, with environments including a futuristic city and “a realm made entirely of carrot cake.” It hasa Steam pagebut no release date yet.
White Shadows
White Shadows - Release Date TrailerWatch on YouTube
White Shadows - Release Date Trailer
It feels reductive to refer to games as a “Limbo-like”, but what else do you call a starkly lit, monochromatic cinematic platformer with a pint-sized protagonist dodging traps and pushing physics objects? While maybe not original, White Shadows does still look impressive, with some lovely environment design. I’m also really interested in the swarms of things that crowd round the bird protagonist.
There’s not long to wait before I can get swarmed myself: White Shadows will releaseon Steamon December 7th.
Cursed To Golf
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This was my favourite of everything shown during Thunderful World. Cursed To Golf is a side-on golf-like, in which a “recently deceased golf champion” is trapped in golf purgatory. Since its purgatory, the courses contain more explosive obstacles than sand traps, and there are “ace cards” you can deploy to, for example, deploy a steerable rocketball to help your journey towards the hole. You’ll also encounter three spectral caddies from whom you can buy items from. It looks like daft fun, and the narrated trailer does a good job of explaining why.
Cursed To Golf is due to launch on PC in 2022.
Swordship
Swordship - Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube
Swordship - Announcement Trailer
The other major news from the show is thatSteamWorld Dig 2 is free to keepuntil tomorrow afternoon.
If you want to see the full show, with all the between-trailer Hamill parts that made me cringe, plus some montages of smaller games, you can watch it below:
Thunderful World - 11.10.2021Watch on YouTube
Thunderful World - 11.10.2021
