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Press release:
Gothenburg, Sweden – March 8th, 2022.
The Sweden-based video game publisher Thunderful Publishing and the Germany-based independent developer Maschinen-Mensch, are today very excited and happy to announce that their roguelike/adventure game “Curious Expedition 2” is coming to the PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One on March 17th, 2022.

The game’s epic Highlands of Avalon DLC will be available the same day, bringing a brand new island type to the base game, a new mechanic related to traversing hills and valleys, a new tribe called the Picts, eight new recruitable characters, new equipment, enemies and more! Switch owners need not feel left out as the DLC is coming to their platform of choice on that very day, too.

Curious Expedition 2 is a Jules Verne inspired pulp adventure in a reimagined version of the late 19th century that uses procedural gameplay and story elements to create completely unique and epic adventures every time you play. Both the players’ character and those they recruit are all procedurally-generated with specific classes, their own unique look, abilities, strengths and weaknesses. On your adventures, all manner of unforeseen circumstances can positively or negatively impact your progress, so careful resource and sanity management is needed to make it back home with your spoils – and your team!

To celebrate the announcement that Curious Expedition 2 will be available on PlayStation and Xbox on March 17th, a new trailer has been released for the game, showcasing its beautiful audiovisual direction, charming writing, accessible, yet deep gameplay and branching story systems:

Independent developer Maschinen-Mensch have been working on Curious Expedition 2 since 2019 and managed to turn it into the ultimate narrative roguelike experience by listening and responding to community feedback over the last few years. Speaking of feedback: on Steam, the game boasts a “very positive” user rating based on more than 2000 reviews.

“We are so excited to reveal that Curious Expedition 2 will soon be out on PlayStation and Xbox,” said Johannes Kristmann, Co-Founder at Maschinen-Mensch.

“Creating this game has been quite the journey in itself..For all you adventurers out there, we wish you good luck on your travels. The base game and the Highlands of Avalon DLC are just the beginning – with two additional DLCs planned, now also on these consoles, there’s a lot more to come from us in the future!”

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About Thunderful
Thunderful Group is a group of companies that develops, publishes and invests in games as well as distributes Nintendo products, games, game accessories and toys. Founded in 2017 Thunderful Games is one of the two business segments in Thunderful Group, the other being Thunderful Distribution. Over the last few years Thunderful Games has, organically and via acquisitions, grown into a global organization with eight development studios and over 300 employees. Besides the award-winning internal development pipeline, Thunderful Games also publishes a large number of third-party titles and invests in external game projects.

About Maschinen-Mensch
Maschinen-Mensch is a Berlin-based studio founded in 2014 by Riad Djemili and Johannes Kristmann, combining 15 years of experience in professional AAA game productions. Among other projects, they worked on the multi-award winning game “Spec Ops: The Line” by YAGER Development. Maschinen-Mensch’s debut title Curious Expedition was first released in 2015 and has sold more than 300.000 copies across all platforms.