Physics-based platformer Esophaguys will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG this spring, developer Esophaguys Team announced.
A demo is available now for Xbox Series, Xbox One, and PC. It features two stages of the single-player story campaign, two cooperative levels, one competitive mini-game, a hardcore level, and a sneak peak at the hub world, as well as a small slice of character customization, which promises to be “far more expansive” in the full game.
“With Esophaguys we wanted to create a wholly unique take on the physics-based platformer,” said Esophaguys Team game designer Peyton Blake in a press release. “Old people! Long necks! Throat sounds! These are all ingredients seldom seen in the genre that we thought we could make something entirely singular out of. More importantly, it’s a lot of fun! Whether played solo or with friends, Esophaguys offers topsy-turvy trachea-based turmoil that will challenge your thumbs and thorax’s alike!”
Here is an overview of the game, via its store pages:
About
You are the Esophaguys, old folks with elongating necks! Stretch, bite, and swing yourself around in one-to-four-player guttural mayhem: cooperative, competitive, and solo.
Key Features
- Cooperative Mode – Stretch, bite, and swing together, traversing and solving puzzles as you search to reactivate the forgotten monuments of your diasporic people.
- Minigame Mode – In team-based sports or free-for-all arena, compete, neck against neck, to determine who has the greatest gullet.
- Story Mode – Accompanied by poignant narration, embark on a mythical journey to reunite your lost kin. Will you uncover the true nature of the neck?
- Masochist Mode – No land. No checkouts. Nothing but neck. Subject yourself to grueling challenges in a hellish atmosphere ripe for speedrunning.
- Twanging Tones and Elderly Grunts – Lose yourself in a soundscape all its own. The first video game soundtrack dedicated to jews-harp music in a variety of strictly traditional and experimental styles. With painstaking adherence to centuries old tradition, only using instruments from their respective regions, jews-harp music from Austria, Norway, India, Kyrgyzstan, the British Isles and America will delight your ears with every jugular jiggle. Accompanied with over 3,000 personally recorded mouth-originated sound effects, prepare your cochleas to be tickled to the extreme.
Watch a new trailer below.
