Developer Young Horses - best known for Octodad: Dadliest Catch and Bugsnax - have released four free games as part of their Free Range collection. They describe the freebies as “the wacky projects we make between games,” which include an ant collectathon and an early prototype of Octodad.
]]>April 28th is the big day for Bugsnax, developers Young Horses announced today. That's when it will: 1) add a whopping great new campaign in a free update; 2) end its Epic Games Store exclusivity and hit Steam; 3) arrive on Game Pass; 4) launch on Xbox and Switch. The new campaign, named The Isle Of Bigsnax, will introduce new creatures made of snacks for you to find and capture, and you can meet a few in the new trailer below.
]]>Bugsnax entranced folks with its catchy theme song from its very first trailer, and then entertained them further when it launched on the Epic Games Store late last year. Now it's been almost 12 months, which means it's time for the snack-hunting game to leap onto Steam. There's a new "coming soon" trailer to prove it below.
]]>At its surface level, Bugsnax is a colourful puzzle game with a great theme song, all about capturing the titular edible creatures. But as I dug into it, I found that it’s also a game about love. The main plot and sidequests all explore each character’s love for someone: a friend, a sibling, a lover, or themselves.
And when Bugsnax explores love, characters of all genders and sexualities get fair treatment. The game gives queer and straight relationships equal weight without explainers or caveats. Its characters respect non-binary people by using the right prounouns without question. In Bugsnax, queer people can just be, which is unfortunately rare in video games.
]]>With an announcement as instantly eyecatching as Bugsnax's was, featuring Kero Kero Bonito’s absolute banger “It’s Bugsnax!”, the actual game was always going to have a lot to live up to.
]]>Weird critter-hunting game, Bugsnax, made me uncomfortably hungry when I played it for the first time over the weekend. Watching the little Bungers (they're kinda like burger beetles) waddle around charging at splodges of ketchup made me go "awww", and then immediately order a McDonald's delivery. Thankfully, I will no longer need to default to takeaways to serve these strange cravings, because video game food-maker, Victoria Rosenthal, has come up with a bunch of Bugsnax recipes.
]]>Bugsnax - everyone's talkin' bout them, y'know? After giving us all earworms back at its not-E3 reveal, we're finally free to chow down on Young Horses' absurd menagerie of bugs wot happen to also be snacks. The bug-hunting, problem-solving expedition sets sail for the Epic Games Store today - just mind you don't spoil your appetite on Strabbies before dinner.
]]>Animals are delicious. Trotting all around the place on their powerful, edible legs, tumbling head over hooves into industrial mincers and having their bodies, minds and souls mechanically reformed into millions upon billions of tasty, pink breakfast tubes. This magical sense of gastronomic abundance — the unshakeable belief that every creature that scoots, slithers and sails on the wind is simply tracing an inevitable path to our waiting stomachs — is captured in Bugsnax: a cute-as-buttons puzzle adventure game populated by bugs, who are also snacks.
]]>I still barely know what Bugsnax is about. At surface level, it's apparently an island full of semi-sentient snack foods and the colorful Muppet-like folks who've arrived to research them. There's definitely more to it than that, and we'll all only have a bit longer to wait to figure out its secrets for ourselves. Bugsnax launches on November 12th, which they've announced via an uncanny video showcasing their voice cast.
]]>I don’t watch much horror myself, so forgive me. But you know those trailers? The ones where there’s a cabin in the woods and a group of smiling high schoolers descend upon it? They flip up the trunk of their car, eagerly fling their suitcases on the wooden decking, and chortle about how they are going to have a rad time. Tropicana in the morning, red cups and beer pong in the evening. Then someone learns the murderous great grandfather of Tommy used to live here and poor Sarah spots an eyeball through a floorboard.
This is the feeling I got from puzzle adventure game Bugsnax. It is cutesy and whimsical at first glance, but there’s clearly something up, something simmering under the surface. I spent an hour with the game’s opening portion, and throughout my hair follicles were semi-hardened, primed but unsure of whether to fully extend or not.
]]>Since time was exposed as a capitalist scam, I have less problem accepting that Bugsnax first revealed itself two months ago. The surreal action adventure about fuzzy muppety creatures eating and then becoming walking strawberries now has a more revealing trailer. It looks more approachable but still pretty weird.
]]>Look, we're all worn out from this summer-long celebration of FakE3, right? What better way to wind down than with the digital release of that Bugsnax bop and some Bugsnax-related reveals? The former's out today, with a vinyl release planned for later. The later is coming next week on Monday, July 27th. Will we actually find out what the heck this game is, or will it just create more questions about Bugsnax?
]]>I don't keep in touch with loads of the people I was at school with, but one of them I do is a man we'll call Tim (because that's his name). Tim is very nice and I value his friendship, but he is also a useful yardstick for how long ago school was, and how I should be feeling about life. At school he held weird LAN parties in his parents' garage, had a load of Airsoft guns, and dressed as a robot on more than one occasion. Now he is married, moved to a different country, and is responsible for the well-being of a small child and at least one dog. Which is why it alarmed me when the Bugsnax trailer sparked some kind of of strange crisis for him, at about midnight last night.
If you have not seen, Bugsnax was revealed during Sony's PS5 steam last night, but it's also coming to PC via the Epic Games Store. It is by the developers of Octodad and is set on an island populated by animals made of sentient food - a crab of apple segments, rack-of-rib centipedes, and so on. When you eat one, your limbs will take on the properties of that food. In the trailer a friendly walrus gets a strawberry arm.
]]>In my eyes, Bugsnax is possibly the strangest game to come out of PlayStation's big announce-a-thon live stream last night. Made by Octodad creators, Young Horses, it's a story-driven adventure game about an island (appropriately named Snaktooth) where all the creatures are half-bug, half-snack, and if you eat them your limbs will start to turn into various foods. It looks as weird as it sounds and I still don't know what to think of the trailer, check it out for yourself below:
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