‘Fat Goblins’ Proves 32-Player Royalty-Fattening Is Exactly What Gaming Missed
I used to tell my friends about a multiplayer game that I played on my PlayStation 3 called Fat Princess. “It was like capture the flag,” I would tell my bewildered audience, “but if you could make the flag fatter so it was heavier.” And that’s usually where I would lose them. So imagine my surprise (and delight) when I discovered a spiritual successor coming out. But instead of fattening up just any princess this time around, you’ll be fattening up a goblin princess. No wait, come back. It’s really fun.
Fat Goblins is a 16v16 multiplayer capture the flag game. Two teams, red vs. blue, face off to siege the enemy’s castle and save your princess. But you can feed your captive royalty pieces of meat (it was cake in the other game) to fatten them up, making them harder to carry away—meaning more players would have to get in and work together to do it. You have the option of playing different classes, but instead of just selecting a class to play, you just put on the hat of the class you want.
If you find the severed head of a foe in battle, and you want his hat—you can put that on and steal his class. It’s chaotic fun. If you’re not into combat, or into fattening up the princess, you can chop trees and mine ore to upgrade castle defenses.
While Fat Goblins is technically releasing into Early Access today, it feels like a complete game. But developer Koda Games plans on keeping Fat Goblins in Early Access for a year or longer, to implement more maps, more classes, expand the progression system, improve bot play and more.
Player feedback will also be needed to improve the game, with the developer planning on using the feedback to prioritize work on the game.
Right now there isn’t anything quite like Fat Goblins' 32-player mayhem. I never thought I’d have a chance to play Fat Princess—or anything like it—again. Koda Games really captured the look and feel of Fat Princess. I look forward to fattening up some goblin princesses with today’s Fat Goblins release.
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