PICK A BOO Announced For Steam With Six-Player Co-Op
A publisher best known for esports and the Xross Stars card game is entering game publishing with a title built on the same co-op format that has been popular on Steam in recent years.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Game & Co. has announced PICK A BOO, a co-op escape action game from developer Toyzium for PC via Steam. Up to six players work as a night escape crew, hauling furniture onto a truck while monsters roam the stages. Carried furniture does not break when dropped, money buys enhancement parts such as power-focused arms, and heavy objects can be moved with teammates. Game & Co. calls it the company's first game title.
Toyzium is handling development. Its previous work includes Gift, Noroikage Gegege no Yoru, and Natsume's Book of Friends ~Hazuki no Ki~. The publisher is Game & Co., a Brave group subsidiary established in 2022 that mainly handles esports-related business and planned and operated the trading card game Xross Stars as a joint venture with the esports team Crazy Raccoon.
Combat and movement share one mechanic: characters are spherical, and charging up power launches them in a pinball-like action that covers movement, attack, and evasion. Taking too much damage or rushing drains a battery and strips the limb parts, leaving a head-only state where movement is difficult until parts are reconnected or teammates help.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.