Tag: 11 Bit Studios
News Moonlighter 2 Brings Back Blend of Shopkeeping and Dungeon Crawling on PS5 in 2025
The Endless Vault announced
Publisher 11 Bit Studios and developer Digital Sun have announced Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault, a sequel to the acclaimed shopkeeping sim/roguelike dungeon crawler. Building on the fun mix of genres in the original, Moonlighter 2 sees the return of protagonist Will as he and his fellow villagers are caught up in a...
News Demonic RPG The Thaumaturge Bites PS5 Next Month, Demo Out Now
PS5 release date set for 4th December
The Thaumaturge developer Fools Theory has announced the PS5 port of its demonic, detective RPG will release on 4th December 2024, nine months after the original PC launch. In the fairly well-received isometric RPG, you shall play a well-seasoned thaumaturge who seeks to unravel their "troubled past" in Warsaw,...
News The Alters Gets Alternate Release Date, Sci-Fi Survival Game Delayed into 2025
Jan will just have to wait
Sci-fi survival game The Alters from developers 11 Bit Studios has been hit with a delay and is now expected to launch sometime in early 2025. In a refreshing statement, president Przemysław Marszał said that "after so many years of production, the risk that the game will have any shortcomings is unnecessary for us."...
News Frostpunk 2 Dev Recoups Entire Marketing, Production Budget in Three Days
Hasn't even hit consoles yet, either
In fantastic news for fans of grimdark city builders, developer 11 Bit Studios announced that Frostpunk 2, in just three days, has already recouped the game's entire marketing and production budget. It managed to move an astonishing 350,000 copies on PC alone, and with a PS5 port promised to follow, we imagine...
News The Thaumaturge PS5 Out in the Next Few Months, Physical Copy Revealed
Priced at £29.99
Released for PC earlier in the year and still slated to arrive on PS5 in the Autumn season, The Thaumaturge is nearing a console launch as a physical version is revealed to go alongside the standard digital PS Store release. It comes via the Signature Edition website, with a normal boxed copy on offer alongside a special edition...
News Chilly Beta Response Prompts Two Month Frostpunk 2 Delay
Needs more time in the oven
The apocalyptic survival strategy game Frostpunk 2 has been delayed following a cooler-than-anticipated response from beta participants. Developer, 11 Bit Studios, has decided to delay the game's release from 25th July to 20th September (with console ports to follow), promising to address the "many keen observations on...
News Frostpunk 2 Forecasts Post-Apocalyptic Survival Strategy and Cutthroat Politics
Make the best of a bad situation
Frostpunk 2 is the sequel to one of the most morally conflicting strategy games on the market, and it looks like more tough choices are on the horizon. It's coming first to PC and Xbox Series X|S on 25th July but has been pledged for PS5 sometime after. Courtesy of IGN, we got an extended look at 11 Bit Studios'...
Review Indika (PS5) - A Bleak, Beautiful, Bewildering Rumination on Faith and Free Will
My anaconda don't want none unless you got nuns, hun
Indika is a game of wild contradiction. It's compelling, thoughtful, and ambitious, but also tedious, rote, and derivative. It's the sort of video game that ruminates on the nature of devout faith, free will, guilt, shame, temptation, and morality, and then asks you to solve boring box puzzles...
News Religious Indie Game INDIKA Handed Final PS5 Release Date of 17th May
After minor console delay
Following a short delay that pushed the console versions past the original PC launch, it has been confirmed INDIKA will release for PS5 later this week on 17th May 2024. An experience steeped in religious faith mixed with platforming and puzzle solving, the unusual game can be seen in action in the trailer above. Since the...
News Unique PS5 Indie Game INDIKA Takes the Devil for a Religious Ride in May
Hold L2 to pray
Nailing down exactly what PS5 game INDIKA is seems like an impossibility, so we will let the trailer above do a lot of the talking. Now confirmed for a current-gen launch on 8th May 2024, you play as a young nun with the devil by her side on a journey of self-discovery. You shall be taken back to the 19th century in an alternative...
News Wild PS5 Indie INDIKA Gets a Bonkers Gameplay Trailer
Revenue will help Ukranian children
The bizarre PS5 indie game INDIKA is back with a fresh trailer showcasing how the third-person action adventure plays, and it appears just as invitingly strange as its original pitch last year. Playing as a nun with the devil as your companion, you'll go on a journey of self-discovery in 19th-century Russia. Check...
News Face Your Demons in Supernatural RPG The Thaumaturge on PS5
Devil you know
The Thaumaturge is an upcoming isometric RPG that's caught our eye with its intriguing alt-history setting, concerned with demonic beings called salutors, and coming to PS5 sometime in 2024. It takes place in Warsaw in 1905, and as a Thaumaturge, the player can commune with these dark entities in battle and out against the fearsome...
Review The Invincible (PS5) - Hard Sci-Fi Adventure Tells a Good Story
Operation hopeless
The Invincible is one of those games where the less you know the better — to a degree. A story in the stars that adapts the Stanisław Lem novel of the same name, it plays quite a lot like a sci-fi Firewatch. While your actions don't extend much beyond walking and operating gadgets and machinery, an intriguing plot and many...
News Alt-History RPG The Thaumaturge Would Like to Ask a Few Questions in 2024
Salutor to you, sir
The Thaumaturge is an isometric narrative RPG set in Warsaw in 1905, and it has been announced for a PS5 release in Early 2024. It features turn-based combat and an intriguing supernatural setting, and we got a decent look at it in an official gameplay trailer. Thaumaturges are people capable of taming Salutors, spirit-like...
News The Alters Is a Sci-Fi Survival Game About a Man and His Many Alternate Selves
Clone hero
Publisher 11 Bit Studios has just released a brand new trailer for a rather interesting-looking game. Named The Alters, the game is a base-building survival adventure set on a hostile planet, and the hook is the lead character relying on different forms of himself. Jan has crash-landed on an inhospitable planet, and it's about to get...
News Sci-Fi Adventure The Invincible Prepares for Launch on PS5 This November
Dead or alive
We finally have a release date for The Invincible. Based on "the motifs" of Polish author Stanisław Lem’s 1964 novel of the same name, this project was first revealed back in 2021, and has always looked pretty promising. Now, the mysterious sci-fi narrative adventure will finally touch down on PS5 soon. It's scheduled to arrive on...
Mini Review South of the Circle (PS5) - Antarctic Disaster Meets Cold War
Not every cloud
South of the Circle is the story of Peter, a scientist at the University of Cambridge. Set in the early 1960s, the game heavily references the social and cultural movements of the time. There is a deep-rooted fear of Russian spies and multiple references to the Cold War, and also an underlying gender equality focus to the story...
News South of the Circle PS5, PS4 Ports Out in Early August
Compared to Firewatch
Developer State of Play has announced the PS5 and PS4 ports of its hit mobile game South of the Circle will release on 3rd August 2022. A new trailer has been revealed to mark the moment, which shares a variety of clips from the game as well as how the control scheme has been adapted for console pads. Just substitute the Xbox...
News Quality Mobile Game South of the Circle Confirmed for PS5, PS4
Port coming soon
South of the Circle, a game first released to overwhelmingly positive reviews on mobile phones, has been confirmed for a release on PlayStation 5 and PS4 in the near future. From the conveniently named developer State of Play, the game is described as an "emotional narrative experience exploring the relationship between Peter and...
News This War of Mine Dev Donating All Profits to Ukrainian War Victims Over Next Week
PS4 game is currently on sale
This War of Mine developer 11 bit studios has announced that, over the next seven days, it'll be donating all profits from its game to the Ukrainian Red Cross in order to help war victims. The Polish company stresses that This War of Mine is meant to show the horrors of mass conflict, and that it stands with Ukraine as...
News Children of Morta's Paws and Claws DLC Raising Money for Animal Charity, Available Now
Trailer full of adorable friendos
Look, Children of Morta is already highly worthy of your time -- it's a great rogue-like action game. However, if you needed something to give you a nudge, how about this brand new DLC pack that benefits a real world charity? Paws and Claws is a new expansion for Children of Morta that's available right now on...
News Moonlighter Gets Its Biggest Expansion Yet This Month on PS4
Between Dimensions
Remember Moonlighter? This shopkeeping dungeon crawler released on PlayStation 4 in 2018, and it's a fun and addictive adventure worth checking out. It's also been supported very well by developer Digital Sun since launch, and it's all culminating with the release of Between Dimensions. This expansion pack is the largest DLC for...
News Children of Morta to Receive Tons of Free DLC Through 2020 Along with Paid Expansion
Uncharted Lands
The recently released rogue-lite Children of Morta turned out to be a rather grand game when it launched on PlayStation 4 back in October, bagging itself a respectable 8/10 in the Push Square review. It looks like the base game is packed full of quality, but it's about to get even better for committed players with a huge list of free...
Review Children of Morta - Family Matters in This Refreshing Rogue-Lite Adventure
Talkin 'bout my random generation
How do you make your pixelated rogue-lite game stand out? Children of Morta has an interesting answer. While you're cleaving your way through hundreds of corrupted baddies in the title's randomly generated dungeons, it frequently hits you with moments of story. The combination of random levels with a set narrative...
Review Frostpunk - Alternate History City Builder Survives Against The Odds
Colder than the other side of the pillow
Here's a little bit of history for you: back in the year 1883 the volcano Krakatoa erupted, and spewed millions of tonnes of ash and molten rock into the atmosphere. There was so much of the stuff up there that sunlight actually struggled to reach the planet's surface and global temperatures cooled...
News Frostpunk Demands You Combat the Cold This October on PS4
Major success on PC
If you're looking to mesh city building with survival elements this holiday season, you might want to keep your eye on Frostpunk. It's coming to PS4 on 11th October, a suitable release date for a game that places so much emphasis on braving the freezing colds of winter. The game received a warm welcome upon its PC launch in...
News Children of Morta Brings the Bergson Family to PS4 in October
Watch the new trailer
We rather enjoyed our brief hands on time with Children of Morta last year, but we've heard almost nothing about it since. It's a gorgeous, pixelated, roguelike action adventure that's reminiscent of games like Hyper Light Drifter. Publisher 11 Bit Studios has finally confirmed release dates, with the PlayStation 4 version...
News Frostpunk Brings Its Chilling Survival Strategy to PS4 This Summer
Cold as ice
Over in PC land, Frostpunk has been a resounding success. Launching roughly a year ago, it's a city building game with lots of strategic elements, and it's highly regarded. The world is a frozen wasteland, and it's up to you as ruler to make tough decisions about resources, citizens, and the city itself. If that sounds like your cup of...
Review Beat Cop - An 80s Police Adventure That Gets Away with Murder
Brooklyn rage
The best thing about Papers, Please is the way in which its work-like gameplay combines with narrative elements to create a stressful, oppressive atmosphere. You're checking documents for discrepancies against the clock, while travellers plead and bargain with you to let them pass, putting your job on the line when your family is...
News Police Adventure Game Beat Cop Writes PS4 a Ticket on 5th March 2019
Beat it
Small publisher 11 Bit Studios has announced it's bringing the well-received arrest-'em-up Beat Cop to PlayStation 4. This title looks like it takes some inspiration from Papers, Please -- you'll be working a regular beat on one New York City street, writing tickets, making arrests, and investigating nefarious goings-on. It seems relatively...
News Moonlighter Developer Outlines Future Content Updates for 2018
New features, enemies, more
Moonlighter is a lovely little game. Its blend of shopkeeping sim and roguelite dungeon crawling is a simple yet compelling joy, so news of free, major updates coming to the game this year is great. Developer Digital Sun took to Steam to outline its plans for the game moving forward. This month, it'll be rolling out an...
Fame and fortune
It's pretty difficult to be original these days, and in some ways, Moonlighter could be seen as rather derivative. Rogue-lite dungeon crawling, management sims, pixel art action RPGs -- we see these all the time nowadays, but this game's trick is smashing them all together. The result is a title you'll feel like you've played...
News Moonlighter's New Trailer Tells You Everything You Need to Know About the Action RPG
By the light of the moon
Moonlighter's out on PlayStation 4 in just a few days, but if you're not quite sure what Digital Sun's incredibly promising title's all about, we'd recommend giving its latest trailer a watch. It goes over all the main points of the title, from the dungeon crawling to the shopkeeping and everything in between. If...
News Shopkeeping Action RPG Moonlighter Sets a Price This May on PS4
Goods stuff
One of the PlayStation 4's most promising upcoming indie titles, action role-playing game Moonlighter has a release date. The dungeon crawler sees you manage a shop during the day, selling the goods that you pilfered from caves and lairs during the night. Honestly, it sounds like quite a stressful routine. Anyway, the game's out next...
News Here's 2 Whole Hours of Action RPG Shop Keeping Sim Moonlighter on PS4
Done deal
Moonlighter is an action role-playing title that caught our eye a few months back, and we've been eager to see more of it ever since. The gist of the game is that you play as a shopkeeper who, at night, dungeon crawls his way to treasure which he then sells to townsfolk in his store. The premise is great, and the game's looking like good...
News Moonlighter Is a PS4 Action RPG You Should Definitely Keep an Eye On
Due out in 2018
Forgive us for being ignorant casuals, but we've only just discovered a little game called Moonlighter. Initially funded by a Kickstarter campaign and then snapped up by publisher 11 Bit Studios, Moonlighter is an action role-playing title in which you lead a dual life. During the day, you run a store and sell stuff to plebs. At...
News The Kids Aren't Alright in This War of Mine PS4
Keep it together for the kids
Well, that was a pleasant surprise. The Kids Aren't Alright was the last song that we were expecting to hear when we booted up the trailer for This War of Mine: Little Ones, but we suppose that The Offspring's classic pop punk single fits pretty darn well. Based upon 11 Bit Studios' survival smash, this game will put...
Review Anomaly 2 (PlayStation 4)
Turning the tables
Tower defence is more of a niche genre for a particular subset of gamers. The slow pace and constant, strategic management of resources that characterises the games may sound like either a fun time or a monotonous drag to you, but something like Anomaly 2 is, er, an anomaly. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play as...
News At Last, the PS4 Is Finally Set to Get a Tower Defence Game
None shall pass
No console is complete without a tower defence title to keep you occupied between big blockbusters, and the PlayStation 4 is set to receive a corker in the form of Anomaly 2. A sequel to Anomaly: Warzone Earth, the title repurposes the offensive format of its predecessor, while also introducing a “dynamic” multiplayer mode which...
News Anomaly: Warzone Earth Targets PSN on 29th August
Death from above
Anomaly: Warzone Earth will explode onto the European PlayStation Network on 29th August, developer 11 Bit Studios has told Joystiq. The title will arrive in North America at some point in September. The PSN version of the popular real-time strategy title adds local co-op and a new human unit called the Chainer. Exciting stuff,...
