Pony Island 2: Panda Circus Sets April 28, 2027 Release, Steam Playtest Live
Mullins is following Inscryption with a harder-to-read project: the footage keeps cutting live-action material into a pixel-art game world, and the team is recruiting testers on Steam rather than showing the systems.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
At The Triple-i Initiative stream on October 9 Japan time, Daniel Mullins Games showed new footage of Pony Island 2: Panda Circus and set the release for April 28, 2027. Test play participants are being recruited on Steam. The earlier game Pony Island is free to claim on Steam until 2:00 on October 13.
The new footage runs a 3D world alongside pixel-art game screens, with live-action-looking material cut straight into the pixel-art segments. The stated goal in Panda Circus is to win games against the gods, or destroy them, by relying on wisdom, though the stream did not spell out the systems.
The earlier game Pony Island, a puzzle title set in an arcade game run by a demon, is free to claim on Steam until 2:00 on October 13. It carries an Overwhelmingly Positive rating from 14,820 reviews, a number of them telling players to go in knowing as little as possible.
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