Red Sandbox Studios Announces Mountain Goatastrophe Co-Op Climbing Game
The shared-fate rope turns the climbing genre's solo struggle into a matter of who drags whom, and pitching that system at up to four players on Steam puts it directly in the territory Chained Together opened.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Red Sandbox Studios has announced Mountain Goatastrophe, a co-op mountain climbing action game for PC on Steam. Up to four players control goats joined by a single rubber rope, and the rope stretches under physics simulation, turning from green to red when it nears its limit. If one player loses footing, the others are dragged along, and companions can also be pulled forward. A trailer shows mountains, icy snow regions, narrow trees, rock walls, and rivers.
The rope is the whole design. Red Sandbox Studios connects up to four goats with one rubber strand, simulated so that a slip does not end with the player who slipped. The others go too. The same physics cuts both ways: a companion can haul the group forward, so the rope is a liability and a tool at once.
Color carries the warning. The rope runs green while it has slack and shifts to red once it stretches past a certain point, at which the pull lands on everyone at once. The trailer moves the goats across mountains, icy snow regions, narrow trees, rock walls, and rivers, showing the rope pulling and being pulled in each.
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