If you like weird, slightly unsettling indie games, you’re going to love Pig Eat Ball. The publisher reached out to me and described the game, “Pig Eat Ball is an insane 2D action puzzle adventure about eating, getting fat, and barfing on things.” What more could you ask for?
The publisher went on to describe that Pig Eat Ball has over 200 handmade levels, massive boss fights and “neo-arcade” gameplay. I’ve yet to play the game, but from what I saw in the trailer it looks like players take control of a flying space pig who uses environmental objects to grow and solve puzzles by barfing those objects around.
Can’t get much weirder, yeah? Except it can. Feast your eyes on these half-wasp, half-cat creatures with tennis racket wings. Dreams do come true.
Some of you may recognize Pig Eat Ball because it’s been out on Steam for about a year. The publisher is making the rounds and announcing that the game is releasing soon for consoles. On October 18, 2019, Pig Eat Ball will release for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
“Consoles are the natural habitat of Pig Eat Ball, and we took special measures to craft these versions.”, said Nathan Fouts, the game’s developer. “Imagine all your arcade-action nostalgia accreted together into some sort of mutagenetic gameplay blob, and then we inserted that blob into your favorite digital store.”
“After making a half-dozen games about guns and killing monsters…Pig Eat Ball started as an idea to create a game with a new gameplay mechanic. Something not about killing…but something original and fun,” Fouts said. “Starting in 2013, a year of prototyping went into discovering the primary action-puzzle mechanic of ‘eat, get fat, get stuck, barf’ in the game. Over two more years of work has been spent fleshing out all possible gameplay mechanics associated with this ability to create…Pig Eat Ball.”
Pig Eat Ball is currently $14.99 on Steam, the announcement did not list console prices.
