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SEATTLE – Oct. 16, 2026 – Clowntown, a high laugh-per-minute co-op minigame festival for 2-8 jokers and a very natural, definitely not out-of-left-field turn for 30XX developer Batterystaple Games, spills out of the clown car in Jan. 2027, on PC via Steam, as announced during today’s The MIX Fall Games Showcase. Are you down to clown?

Honk those noses and gather ‘round for the main show. Fool around and untangle the Ringmaster’s devious plans across a 5-6 hour campaign of mostly cooperative, hand-designed escapades consisting of escalating multistage minigames brimming with surprises and shenanigans. Minigames start simple enough for even the most foolish of jesters to understand, then morph in unexpected ways to test brain cells, game skills, and the true strength of friendship.

Turn a night with friends into a farcical fiesta of giggles and groans as minigames mutate beyond their initial premise. Spell simple words together one letter at a time in Spelling Bee. Then assemble absurd words like “polytetrafluoroethylene” under time pressure in Spelling Wasp. Finally, Bees Spelling completes the crescendo, adding clown-firing cannons and forcing the team to collect literal bees to spell the words..

How well do you know your friends? Answer soul-probing questions like “What’s your favorite fruit?” in Friendship Test (is the answer Apple, Banana, Pear, or Mustard?), or bonk heads together in rounds of Trivia over questions like “which player is about to die?”. It’s every clown for themselves in PvP levels: be the last one standing against decaying blocks in Fall Clowns, or super jump to hit center stage in Charging Slammers. Splatter terrain (and each other) in paint in totally-original levels Turf War & Turf 2 Turf.

Customize your night of revelry with game-ruining modifiers in Patch Notes When (Would you like to make your spammable horn honks incredibly annoying? Now you can!). hObey a set of tyrannical rules while surviving a platforming gauntlet in Thou Shalt Not, and kick your friends into wells in THIS IS SPARTA!

Relive absurd antics in Party Mode, play curated minigame romps in Co-Op Mode, or flip co-op games into something more sinister in Contest Mode. Customize your clown’s costume with a variety of character styles, and select from more than 30 un-muteable honk types to annoy charm EVERYONE with. Get down and clown around!

“It’s been a joy to make a game that’s just ‘everything that made the team laugh,’” says Batterystaple founder, Chris King. “Hopefully, you have one to seven friends to bring along for the ride – with a little luck, you’ll still have most of them left by the time the credits roll.”

Clowntown will launch in January 2027, on PC via Steam. Supported languages at launch include English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, German, Korean, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

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About Batterystaple Games
Batterystaple Games is an independent developer founded by Chris King. Scattered across the globe, the team aims to create crisp, satisfying action games that players can enjoy with friends and continue to come back to for years to come. The studio’s previous projects, 20XX and 30XX, have sold more than 500,000 copies across Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The team also published Jamestown+, the revival of Final Form Games’ classic bullet hell shooter.