Sony is making an effort to bring more of its PlayStation IPs to smartphones, and here's yet another example: Ultimate Sackboy is a runner game for iOS and Android devices that launches on 21st February 2023. Amazingly, it appears the game was announced back in September, but has flown completely under the radar until now. It's a free-to-play release, and you can check out the reveal trailer above.
Instead of creating and customising your own levels, you'll be racing against Sackboy's friends along a track, avoiding obstacles and collecting as many bubbles as possible in exchange for costume pieces. Along the way, you can jump, swing, and roll alongside sprinting. From UK developer Exient, the team also adapted Lemmings for smartphones. If you're interested in playing Ultimate Sackboy, pre-registrations are available now on the Google Play store.
A press release mentions battling it out for exclusive rewards in the Daily Duel, and there'll be thousands of clothing items to unlock and upgrade. "With a growing catalogue of clothing options being added all the time, you will never run out of exotic costumes and cosmetics to collect!"
Ultimate Sackboy joins the likes of WipEout Rush in bringing more PlayStation brands to mobile phones as part of a program which has been in the works for a while now. In August 2022, Sony acquired Savage Game Studios to help out with this initiative.
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I still play Run Sackboy! Run! every now and then, so I’ll give this a go.
They should add trophies
Why they haven't remastered 1 and 2 on PS4 or ps5 is beyond me seems like easy money
Well, um, politely no thanks?
Boy I wish Media Molecule would go back to LBP. I have such fond memories with that series. Would love to see it return on PS5.
This looks fine. It looks like any other phone game but I don't play phone games so...sorry. Thanks but no thanks.
R.I.P little big planet.
Aren't people tired of these 3 lane endless runners? I felt that gameplay loop, while fun initially, got really tired a decade ago after Temple Run.
Has anything really added much to the formula in that time?
That said this does look lovely visually.
It came out almost two years ago (soft launched April 2021). They liked it so much they didn't even bother announcing it. Haha.
https://littlebigplanet.fandom.com/wiki/Ultimate_Sackboy
They should have kept this as the big surprise at the end of a state op play. People would have died of happiness. But in al seriousness, it looks pretty good. Might try this out if it's free, might be fun if it gets a release on console in the future.
I’ll give it a go!
Might give it a go out of curiosity but it doesn't look all that different to other phone games. Pity they didn't do a community mode so we can make our own levels and that could hold up to the LBP name more.
Where does it say the game will be released on February 21st?
@A1234 In a press release.
It does seem like nowadays we know a lot more about non-PS stuff related to PS (movies, TV, mobile, PC) than PS stuff.
Great news! I really enjoyed Run Sackboy Run. Looks like a fun time waster.
I was excited until I read it was for mobile.
Game looks really good for a mobile game, hopefully this is a push to get more people to like sackboy before releasing a new sackboy/LBP console game before the end of the year.
Aw Sack, here we go again...
(Will be playing day 1 of course)
It'd be more interesting if you could design and share your own courses.
Sad Sack Face
INTEGRATE TROPHIES!!!
It's fun for a few hours in total and then i delete it.
Bring back the coke zero bubbles.
wow its already on its 3rd battlepass.. shocker
And like most mobile games they don't use regional pricing
@themightyant You gotta love how a big company like Sony can't do anything creative than lane running simulators for a mobile game.
@Nepp67 Sadly while my comment was pretty snarky, the reality is that 3 lane endless runners DO still perform really well on mobile, especially in some demographics.
Personally, on thinking about it more, i'm not actually against it. It's not made by the main studios this is made by mobile developer Exient. It will likely make Sony profit, which they can potentially funnel back into other areas of gaming, plus it will raise brand awareness for Sackboy. It's probably a good business move. Unlike some of their other more creative ideas like WipEout Merge the weird card based, comic book style WipEout game.
Yet do I want to play it? No. But i'm not there target audience for this either. I'll move along.
Mayne integrate Stars into it a bit? Maybe a couple of rewards in that based on this game progress. I wish for trophies, but get why not. But PlayStation Stars works too I think!
Not interested in running games. Still waiting for their next big AAA console game.
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