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Press release:
2 JULY 2024.
The UK-based indie games developer Peculiar Pixels (Oscar Salandin) are today very proud and happy to announce that their hilarious party/sports game “BOTSU: Ridiculous Robots“, is coming to Steam EA this summer (2024).

This hilarious party game levels up the ragdoll physics genre with never-before-seen agility, crazy power-ups, rocket boosters, and vibrant voxel vibes.

The BOTSU demo is now available on Steam, featuring online and split-screen multiplayer, multiple game modes, arenas, and unlockable outfits, all to give players an early taste of this sandbox madness.

BOTSU will launch in Early Access at a price of £15.99 (and regional equivalents), reduced to £13.59 through a 15% launch discount. The price may increase once it exits early access, to full release.

About the game

Fight your friends in silly sandbox sports: Box-Ball, Sumo Survival, and Stockpile. Wrestle your way to victory online or split-screen in endless unique games. Win matches, unlock outfits, and show off your skills in style!

Anything is possible if you can pull it off, so you’ll need to think outside the blocks to claim the BOTSU CUP.

This chaotic sandbox is a labour of love by solo indie developer, Oscar, creating everything from the art to the netcode, the design, music, and even the fonts!

Key features:
Endless Unique Matches – With 3 game modes, different arenas, multiple gadgets, rocket boosters, gravity modifiers, and heaps of ragdoll physics, every match will be different in BOTSU.
Sandbox Sports
BoxBall – Get the ball in the goal!
Sumo Survival – Don’t fall in the lava, be the last one standing!
Stockpile – Collect boxes and steal from the other team!
Split-Screen & Online Multiplayer – Party up in 4-player split-screen and go head-to-head with online teams in matches with up to 8 players 4v4. Hang out with your friends in the sandbox social space between matches.
Acrobatic Athletes – These aren’t some sluggish ragdolls. You’re a robot athlete at the height of your career. You can sprint, jump, flip, climb, breakdance, fly and break through the sound barrier with your overpowered rocket boosters.
Physics-Based Fighting – Combine acrobatics with combat to triple-flip kick your opponents or wrestle them in midair while flying upside-down. Anything is possible if you can pull it off.
Build Your Bot – Level up and show off your awesome outfits. Combine any outfit with different heads, bodies, arms, legs and feet to create something truly unique.
Gadgets – These are your silly superpowers: grappling-hooks, balloons, sticky-bombs, and impulse waves work on anything, like other players, objects or the environment. Get creative and invent new ways to use them!
Theatre Replay Mode – Every silly ragdoll moment and every awesome victory is captured by the replay system, so you can play it back in slo-mo and work out what on earth just happened.

For more updates on BOTSU: Ridiculous Robots, follow Oscar on socials, or join the discord:
https://linktr.ee/botsu.game

About Peculiar Pixels
Peculiar Pixels is an indie studio setup by solo developer Oscar Salandin to build games that bring people together with humour, teamwork, and experimentation.

Oscar studied Industrial Design and worked at Microsoft in UX, Research and Mixed Reality. Growing up playing sandbox video games like Time-Splitters, Crysis, Halo, Rocket League and Gang Beasts, he experimented with game ideas as a hobby and fell in love with physics, procedural animation and emergent behaviours.

BOTSU was an experiment to find out what procedurally animated characters would feel like if they were faster, more athletic, and more precisely controlled. This was instantly fun and funny to play with friends, so the concept was developed further to add game-modes, gadgets, costumes and online multiplayer.