Surgent Studios is best known for games like Tales of Kenzera: ZAU and DEAD TAKE, both very serious titles with emotional layering and some darker themes. In a bid to have ‘a little bit of silly, stupid fun’, the team has just unveiled FixForce, a game that’s out of left field for the studio, but looks very interesting indeed.
FixForce is an extraction platformer that puts players in control of awkward robots, bound to enter a map, complete repairs, clamber around the environment, and avoid losing their heads… Literally. When all is said and done, players get back to their van and zip off towards the horizon, completing an extraction loop.
FixForce Enters Early Access on March 12
Surgent Studios has just announced FixForce, a hilarious and charming extraction platformer title. It’s silly, entertaining, and not to be taken too seriously, and it takes some typically challenging themes and settings and turns them into something humorous.
In FixForce, players take to post-apocalyptic settings and enjoy an extraction-based loop. They enter a round with up to five other players, try to use the environment to their advantage to perform fixes, and avoid violent robots hellbent on popping their heads off their shoulders.
Speaking about FixForce, actor and founder of Surgent Studios, Abubakar Salim, said:
We saw the pure chaos and hilarity FixForce unleashed as it came together, so we made the decision to move quickly and publish it ourselves.
Yes, FixForce is completely unlike anything we’ve ever done before, but look: we made one game about grief and another about abuse and thought, ‘can we have a little bit of silly, stupid fun for a second?’ I promise we’ll go back to dark and depressing after this!
Recently, the team at Surgent entered into a partnership with Pocketpair Publishing, but as stated, FixForce is being pushed out the gate without publisher assistance, which marks a first for the seven-year-old studio.
FixForce enters early access on Steam and Epic on March 12, and later this year, it’ll launch as a full title and will come to Xbox. There’s no indication yet if the game will also come to PlayStation or Nintendo Switch platforms.
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Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.
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