Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition News

[p][/p][p]Guacamelee! STCE is at its most Intenso Steam discount this year at 80% off![/p][p][/p][p]Grab it while you can, or go to our Developer Sale for more Guacamelee! Goodness, discounts on other games, or other studio updates including some new looks at our latest project, Blighted![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Thanks for all of your support, it means a lot to us! ːg2heartː[/p][p]The Drinkbox Team[/p][p]
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[p]Bitmap Books recently released “50 Indie Games that Changed the World”, and featured Guacamelee! [/p][p]
“Each chapter represents the story of a particular indie game of note…all 50 are evidence of the impact and boundary-pushing capabilities only indie games can achieve” - Aaron Potter[/p][p][/p][p]This book is crafted with so much love and attention to detail, beautiful from cover to cover and inspiring in the stories it explores. We are truly humbled that Guacamelee! was included amongst so many genre-defining titles.[/p][p][/p][p]Guacamelee! will always hold a special place in our studio’s history, and its success is in no small part thanks to the love and enthusiasm of everyone that played and enjoyed it.[/p][p][/p][p]You can find more information about this book (and get your own copy!) here: [/p][p]https://www.bitmapbooks.com/en-ca/products/50-indie-games-that-changed-the-world[/p][p][/p][p]A big thanks to Bitmap Books for having us, and to you for supporting us.[/p][p]The Drinkbox Team[/p]

[p]Hey! How’s it going?  [/p][p]Eating well? Sleeping in? Folding clothes? [/p][p]That’s so great to hear.[/p][p][/p][p]- Oh, us? Nah, we haven’t been up to much. [/p][p]Well, except for all the work we’ve put into our new game Blighted. Check it out![/p][p][/p][p]As you know, we announced Blighted back in June as part of Summer Game Fest 2025, and we’ve been hard at work on it since. (Thanks for wishlisting it, by the way. It really does help 🙏)[/p][p][/p][p]We don’t want to spoil too much, buuuut we’ve added a TON of enemies to the game, and are still adding more! Each of them deadly in their own weird and freaky little way.[/p][p][/p][p]It’s hard to believe but we actually built out an early version of the entire game as part of an internal-alpha milestone! And right now we’re in the middle of tearing it all up, choosing the best bits, adding juicy challenges and putting it all back together again.[/p][p][/p][p]Now, it might sound like we don’t have much left to do, but that couldn’t be further from the truth! We’re still fine tuning the gameplay and combat loop to go beyond the standard we’ve established in any of our other games thus far. Blight is getting deadlier, and gnarlier too. Our programmers are working all sorts of technical magic to make Blighted shine, ooze and wriggle. And every new object in the game is another opportunity for our artists to draw up a fresh nightmarish creation to populate the growing world. And Jim Guthrie is still sending us tracks that put shivers down our spines in all of the best ways.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]We're also prepping the soundtrack from Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack to be released on Steam very soon! As one of our first major releases, Mutant Blobs Attack will always hold a special place in our ears - because the soundtrack by Peter Chapman and Shaun Hatton is SO GOOD. If you ever need a shot of caffeine directly into your earlobes, load up this soundtrack, sit back, and get back up again because your toes will not stop tapping.[/p][p][/p][p]On the more human side, we recently took the team out to get their quarterly quota of exercise by running, jumping, dodging, ducking, dipping, diving, dodging, throwing, shooting (basketball), shooting (gun) and yelling with Activate. We then gathered for our biggest team photo to date!! (we’re still missing an international co-worker or two, but we’ll get them one day!)[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Huh. Turns out we have in fact been ‘up to much’! Sorry for all the yapping. As a thank you for listening, we’ve put all of our games on sale on Steam![/p][p][/p][p]Catch you later![/p][p]The Drinkbox Team[/p]

[p]Hello hello! We have some very exciting news to share! We'd like to introduce you to Blighted, a Metroidvania Action-RPG set in a psychedelic western nightmare world, and our most ambitious project to date! [/p][p] Blighted features some of the most intense combat Drinkbox has ever put together, and for the first time in 3D! Time your attacks, read your enemies and capitalize on powerful finishers to survive deadly encounters. Punches will not be pulled! [/p][p]We're also excited to debut what we're calling the Blight system. Tracking skillful plays, the Blight system responds by ratcheting up the difficulty. At higher levels of Blight, enemy behaviors, player abilities and the surrounding environment can all change. [/p][p]Consume the brains of defeated bosses to reclaim lost memories and learn ethereal abilities. Use your newfound powers to complete special challenges and uncover hidden paths. [/p][p]Featuring music by the acclaimed composer Jim Guthrie (who also worked with us on Nobody Saves the World), jam along to hauntingly beautiful tracks as you play solo, or in co-op! [/p][p]Wishlist the game to get notified when the game launches. Wishlisting also helps boost our Steam launch visibility, so is doubly appreciated. [/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Finally, please consider joining our Discord to keep up with news and updates about Blighted. Or to just hop in to say hi :) Thank you all for your support. We can't wait to reveal more about the game soon! All the best, The Drinkbox Team [/p]