tinyBuild Connect news and highlights

Today, tinyBuild hosted a digital event to showcase some of the exciting projects they have been working on. In the 20 minute online show, tinyBuild Connect showcased two new games, release dates for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PC, a deep gameplay dive into Hello Neighbor 2 and more!

Let's take a look at all the juicy games from today's event!

Tinykin

• Developer: Splashteam
• Genre: Action, Adventure
• Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
• Release Date: Summer 2022

Solve Earth‘s Biggest Mystery!

It's the year 2748 and Milo has re-discovered Earth! He'd go down in history, but as he lands on the planet he encounters a problem... He's as small as a penny. And everybody's gone. And it's the '90s.

Get Big And Go Home!

Explore a giant house as a tiny astronaut, and meet the society of insects that built a sprawling city inside! Discover the stadium in the bath, revive the nightclub inside the couch, and win big at the casino under the bed! Milo can jump, hover, skate and grind, but the true hook is the mysterious tinykin! Hundreds of alien creatures with special powers to become ladders, build bridges, carry large objects, activate machines and explode!

Hello Neighbor 2

• Developer: Eerie Guest Studios
• Genre: Puzzle, Adventure, Platform, Strategy
• Publisher: tinyBuild
• Platforms: PC (Steam, Microsoft Store), Xbox
• Release Date: TBA

Can you trust your Neighbors? Think again!

Hello Neighbor 2 is the sequel to Hello Neighbor, where you sneak into your neighbour's house and figure out what he's hiding in the basement. As a journalist, you investigate murders and mysterious disappearances in a seemingly quiet town of Raven Brooks.

The entire town with all the houses and AI-driven inhabitants is your playground. What’s in the attic of a local taxidermist? Why does this gentleman with a moustache go down to the amusement park every night? Which secrets does the mayor’s study hold? These are just a small part of the questions you might ask yourself while playing the game.

You will be the one looking to solve the Neighbor’s case because no one else dares to

In Hello Neighbor 2 you play against a complex opponent controlled by advanced AI that learns from you and all the other players! As time progresses and the Neighbor adapts to the players’ patterns, his own behavior will change and surprise you. Will you be the one to outsmart the Neighbor and find out what he's hiding?

Game Features:

• Raven Brooks and all its mysteries are now yours to explore! Traverse the town, all of its houses and AI-driven inhabitants are now part of your playground
• It feels like an investigative journalist simulator - sneak around and find out your neighbors' secrets. Why does this gentleman with a moustache go down to the amusement park every night?
• Can you outsmart the AIs? Every character in Hello Neighbor 2 is powered by a neural network AI, learning from the players, doing everything in their power to protect their gated community and its secrets.
• It’s up to you to uncover the dark secrets hidden in Raven Brooks!

The Bookwalker

• Developer: Do My Best
• Genre: Adventure, Puzzle
• Publisher: tinyBuild
• Platforms: PC (Steam)
• Release Date: TBA

You’re a Bookwalker. A rogue writer whose superpower is to traverse the world of literature and track ancient artifacts. Track and steal Excalibur, Thor’s Hammer, Magic Flute... to restore your ability to write and create worlds. Explore various environments, encounter dangerous enemies, find solutions to numerous puzzles, and see where the story leads you. The Bookwalker is an adventure game that tells the story of two brothers who travel through the worlds of different books in an attempt to steal legendary items.

The Bookwalker is developed by Do My Best, a 2-person studio behind the indie hit The Final Station. A demo of the game will appear on Steam Next Festival on October 1st, 2021. The Bookwalker is planned for release on Steam in 2022.

What is there to do?

• Dive into vastly different worlds
• Hunt for powerful artifacts
• Meet dozens of characters and learn their stories
• Find solutions to a plethora of puzzles, some quite... unorthodox

SpiderHeck

• Developer: Neverjam
• Genre: “Spiders with laser swords!” brawler for 1-4 players
• Publisher: tinyBuild
• Platforms: PC, Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
• Release Date: 2022

SpiderHeck is a fast-paced couch co-op brawler where spiders dance to the death in the grip of chaotic battles using laser swords, grenades and even rocket launchers to defeat their foes. Challenge yourself by fighting wave after wave of vicious enemies in endless hours of single-player fun, or let the mayhem begin in a dazzling fight against your friends taking on the enemies in PvE; stab, sling, and scramble your way to victory in this silly spider showdown.

Features:

• Single or Multiplayer PvE - Take on the enemies in single-player or local multiplayer chaos for up to 4 players.
• Local Multiplayer PvP - Duel to the death against your friends to see who will become champion of the SpiderHeck arena.
• Easy to Pick Up - Intuitive controls that will have you swinging around like the spider swordmaster you are destined to be.
• Hilarious physics-based combat - Watch in delight as your friends pull off the ultimate parkour feat, before catapulting themselves face-first into the lava.
• Incredible acrobatics - spiders react dynamically to the carnage, resulting in a range of badass and hilariously clumsy moments.
• Choose your Weapon - A wide range of weapons to destroy your enemies with.
• Level Up - Utilise perks to upgrade your gameplay.

Happy's Humble Burger Farm

• Developer: Scythe
• Genre: Adventure Horror Cooking Simulator
• Publisher: tinyBuild
• Platforms: PC, Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
• Release Date: Q4 2021

Work at a fast food restaurant in Happy’s Humble Burger Farm, a Restaurant Simulation meets Survival Horror mind-blower. Welcome back to the Happy’s Humble franchise! Serve customers at the Farm, or explore New Elysian City and it’s many attractions! 

Game Features

Make Burgers, among other things!

Get movin’ and groovin’ as you sling chilled beef patties like an absolute hamburger hero. Enough of making burgers? Then we got you covered with fries, salmon nuggets, shakes, hotdogs and what not. Enjoy cooking, enjoy working, that’s our motto!

Places to Go, sights to discover!

New Elysian is a happening city! Well...kind of. It’s kind of eerie and disquieting too, eh? Get yourself a coffee from the Jazzy Java Joint! Or why not sell some stuff at the Steal ‘n’ Sell pawn shop? There’s history and art to behold at the New Elysian Museum. Or pay homage to the past and the fallen at Legacy Lawns Cemetery.

Wake Up! Try Not to Panic!

Who am I? Where am I, exactly? Wait, I work at a restaurant? This note says some weird stuff about...Obscura Programming? Paragon Genetics? What does all of this mean? Maybe I should collect more intel and unlock the very meaning of life, the universe, and all the rest.

Trash Sailors

• Developer: Flucky Machine
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Casual, Simulation
• Publisher: tinyBuild
• Platforms: PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox One
• Release Date: 2021

Control the group of castaways by local or online multiplayer, and create the trashiest sailing team in history! Make your slapdash raft, fight with mutants, and trash your friendship! The world was flooded by a giant Trash Tsunami! Luckily for you, a lot of trash is floating around. Trash is your main resource and the most valuable thing in this world. You can recycle it into fuel, raft spare parts, and even weapons. Brace yourself for swamp crocodiles, toxic sharks, arctic pirates, and much, much more!

Features

• Online and local 4-player coop!
• Hand-drawn trash piracy
• Dozens of seas for treasure hunting, shark kicking, and mutant feeding!
• Uncivilized battles for the last piece of trash
• Literally an ocean of trash to sail with your friends!

Despot's Game

• Developer: Konfa Games
• Genre: RPG, Strategy
• Publisher: tinyBuild
• Platforms: PC (Steam)
• Release Date: October 14, 2021 (Early Access)

Despot’s Game is a blend of rogue-like tactics and auto battler with asynchronous multiplayer. Build an army of tiny humans and sacrifice the heck out of them to rush through enemies and other players! The game releases on Steam on October 14, 2021. The developers plan to spend about a year in early access, greatly increasing game content and adding new multiplayer modes.

Build your army

Pick your loot and transform the squishy humans into wizards, cultists, ninjas and dozens of other heroes. With perks and class combos, there are thousands of ways to build your army.

Indirect combat

Prepare your warriors and let them fight it out on their own! Indirect combat allows you to focus heavily on tactical considerations rather than reflexes.

Endless exploration

The dungeons are generated from scratch every time, and there is no chance puny humans will ever find the way out!

Asynchronous multiplayer

Fight against other players and compete in multiplayer challenges!