Press release:
The Austin-based (Texas, the US) indie games publisher Devolver Digital and Cape Town-based (South Africa) indie games developer Free Lives games, today announced with great excitement and delight that their brutal roguelike brawler “Stick it to the Stickman” is coming to PC via Steam in 2023.
“Stick it to the Stickman” is a groin-kicking, staple-gunning, chainsaw-wielding roguelike brawler loaded with high-impact, physics-based combat, copious amounts of coffee and weaponised farts!
Batter your way through compliant coworkers, menial middle-management and brutal bosses, learning more powerful “business techniques” on your way to becoming CEO of the worst company in America.
Fight Hired With Fired
Attack is the best form of defence in business, and it’s kill or be killed. Pick up powerful upgrades and HR-approved weaponry to ensure your Stickman is more than just a yes-man.
Go The Extra Mile
Your career trajectory isn’t just vertical! Incorporate new subsidiary companies to squeeze out the competition, with each acquisition offering new gameplay, new enemies, new bosses, new weapons and more! Build a conglomerate that rules the marketplace and dominates our hearts!
Grab The Low-Hanging Fruit
Stick it to the Stickman’s corporate dystopian setting, with clever yet harrowing gags about the future under capitalism, is sure to raise a smile at next year’s company retreat!
Follow @Free_Lives and @devolverdigital on Twitter in order for your personal data to be ethically extracted for the purpose of marketing, and queue up for your first taste of the rat race at PAX West, September 2-6.
About Free Lives:
Free Lives are a team of teenage anthropomorphic turtles, led by their anthropomorphic beard wielding rat sensei in honing and perfecting their art of game jam jitsu to battle bills, pants, petty criminals, evil overlords and alien invaders. They met in the storm sewers of Cape Town, where they bonded over a love for dank accommodations, consuming copious amounts of pizza and remaining isolated from society-at-large.
About Devolver Digital:
We are
Devolver Digital
purveyors of fine digital entertainment wares from independent artists worldwide.
A boutique game label
Owned and operated by
a team that replies to Slack threads with a non-stop deluge of hilarious gifs and passive aggressive shots at one another.
Despite our Differences
A collection of Individuals
works with independent developers from all over the world to produce and promote some of the most original, eccentric, and beloved games of the past decade.
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Jonas “O.J” Ek
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @TheGamingGround
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Tags: Brawler, Devolver Digital, Free Lives, Indie games, PC games, Roguelike, Steam, Stick it to the Stickman