have you ever wanted to have a dance-off with your Pokémon? How about rearing a weird and wonderful farm? Or pop a little hat on your Piplup? Well, Glumberland's Ooblets will let you do all of that and more.
Inspired by the Pokémon series with a big dollop of Harvest Moon's farming and town management, this weird and adorable has been in Early Access since 2020, and it's finally ready to jump out of it this summer — and it's coming to Switch! In Ooblets, you'll get to raise a quirky menagerie of unusual, pastel-coloured creatures and forge relationships with the townsfolk to help solve the mystery of Oob!
All of the content released in Early Access will be playable on Switch from day one, but Glumberland has also revealed that more new locations, quests, and a proper conclusion to the game's community-based story will also be ready and waiting when the game launches. The residents of Badgetown are odd, the ooblets are odd, and the crops are odd too!
Let's find out what oddities Glumberland will be throwing at us, which it revealed in a press release for the game, along with a bunch of pun-filled location names:
About Ooblets
New friends are plentiful in Ooblets! Spend your days renovating your farm, raising weird little pals, participating in dance-offs, designing your house, and helping the mayor save Badgetown!Features
1. Customize your character's style with a variety of unique outfits and accessories
2. Grow otherworldly crops on your farm, craft treats, and sell them in town
3. Build your own team of ooblets to participate in card-based dance battles, level up, and unlock new moves
4. Daily challenges, dance tournaments, townsfolk quests, and badges will keep you very busy
5. Give gifts and make friends with the kinda-odd residents of Badgetown
6. Start with a rundown shack and turn it into a beautiful home with tons of decor and furniture options
7. Play a plethora of pleasant minigames
8. Run your own shop in town selling items you’ve crafted and collected
9. Help the mayor save the town, and unlock the secrets of Oob along the way
10. Get to know the townsfolk and befriend them if you'd like!
11. Explore a bunch of regions, like the arcade-filled boardwalk in Port Forward, the spooky swamps of Nullwhere, and the frozen peaks of Tippytop
12. (and you can pet the ooblets)
We don't have an exact release date for Ooblets just yet, but we're going to make room in our schedule for when it drops this summer. You can find out more about the game over on its official website.
What do you think of Ooblets? Have you had a chance to play it in Early Access? Share your thoughts in the usual spot.
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This is a game that feels tailor-made for Switch, from top to bottom. It's like Animal Crossing and Pokemon (with dance battles!) mashed up, and it's wonderful.
And it's just begging for a nice physical edition, too!!
Another farming/relationship sim? Real life is always an option too..
Kinda lost track of what this game actually was while watching, not clearly communicated from the outset and I think I switched off mentally.
This just made my mind picture (Stardew) Pokemon Valley. You inherit a farm and then use pokemon to help build it back and also can go into some caves or adventure to other towns and battle pokemon and trainers. Or just search for different pokemon to help clear weeds or water your plants.
@SteamEngenius what? In real life can you grow vegetables and then train them to fight into dance battles? if so your life is great, never play another video game again.
@SteamEngenius You expect me to believe you farm and have a relationship in real life? Right.
I remember reading about this game a long time ago. Specifically how the developers wanted to eliminate violence from this game. Hence the dance offs rather than traditional monster battles.
I was so excited for this game when it was first announced. Then it went to the Epic Store and never added multiplayer, so I'm basically out at this point. So disappointing.
Don't buy this game, the devs are a**holes.
This is a good reminder that the Pokemon Company is sitting on a goldmine if they just made one of their next spinoffs a farm sim, with well-known NPC characters visiting your local town.
Been waiting on this one love the look and feel.
@Seanmyster6 ok...
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I've been interested in this game forever, especially because AC New Horizons sucks compared to New Leaf.
Anybody played this on PC yet?? Let us know!
I’m probably gonna be lynched but yeah I would probably give it a try.
I just wish the dance battles weren't card based, but just regular a RPG system or even a rhythm mini game. I love the concept of eliminating violence from the battles, but why the hell use cards for that?
This was the one where the devs promised steam in the kickstarter then switched to epic later and insulted backers who complained
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