Because the very starting, we knew Rockbeasts was one thing particular. To us, not less than. Not as a result of it’s the largest sport, or the most secure guess. Fairly the alternative. It’s not constructed round a style you possibly can neatly file it underneath. It’s constructed round a theme, a really particular fantasy that comes straight from our personal experiences and our personal love of music – and the way it formed us. That’s what makes it particular. It’s additionally precisely what makes it laborious.
For anybody simply discovering us: Rockbeasts is a rock and roll administration RPG. You’re not the frontman, not the drummer, however the supervisor. Your job is to take a band from a storage stuffed with ego, suggestions, and half-finished songs, all the best way to the largest levels on the market. Alongside the best way, you’ll juggle sources, wrangle personalities, put out fires (typically literal ones), and attempt to preserve the entire stunning mess collectively lengthy sufficient to make it huge.
Video games like this, those pushed by feeling reasonably than components, don’t play good with algorithms. They’re tougher to pitch, tougher to categorize, tougher to place in entrance of the individuals who’d truly love them. We knew that entering into. We additionally knew that if this concept ever obtained the fitting assist behind it, it might turn into one thing a lot larger than what we might construct alone.
That assist has arrived.
We’re past proud to share that Lichthund is partnering with Vital Function, each creatively and on the publishing facet. Their expertise, expertise and actually, their style for tales with actual coronary heart, mixed with all the pieces we’ve poured into our sport, is precisely the mixture we all the time hoped for. This partnership is what ought to let Rockbeasts turn into the sport we all the time wished it to be, as a substitute of the sport we needed to accept.
It took us a second to get right here. And there’s nonetheless rather a lot we have to deal with as we need to make Rockbeasts the perfect model of itself. However we’re prepared. As if we have been to enter a rock stage ourselves.Matthew Mercer and Sam Riegel will share that stage with us, as they’re formally becoming a member of Rockbeasts’s forged. Seeing our characters performed by them is a dream come true. If Vital Function (and should you don’t, please do your self a favor and verify them out), what these two convey to a personality: chaos, coronary heart, and a degree of dedication that makes a script really feel like a real journey. That’s precisely the vitality our sport wants, as a result of managing a band this unhinged was by no means going to be a quiet job. And there’s extra to return, so please stick with us on this final mile resulting in the discharge – and right here’s the second, equally thrilling half…
Rockbeasts launches on PS5 in January 2027!
That’s whenever you’ll lastly get to sit down within the supervisor’s chair, wrangle your personal fantastically damaged band, and attempt to get them to the stage they deserve – in a single piece, should you’re fortunate.
We’ve been constructing towards this second for a very long time. For these of you already with us – thanks from the underside of our hearts for believing in one thing a bit of completely different. For these we’re nearly to fulfill – welcome and benefit from the tour.
You possibly can wishlist Rockbeasts now in preparation for launch in January 2027.
