TALLGLASS Moves BOOM! Buster Up To October 29, Refunds Kickstarter Backers
A studio that raised over 10 million yen through Kickstarter is shrinking its funded game and returning the money rather than shipping the promised scope, and the demo for the smaller follow-up project it is pivoting to already carries an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
TALLGLASS will release BOOM! Buster on October 29, 2026 Japan time, moving the action-adventure up as its scope is reduced. The studio said team members' mental and physical health declined over several years of development, with one member hospitalized. Kickstarter backers get full refunds plus free copies of BOOM! Buster and the related Buster Jam, now targeted for 2027.
The decision came with a specific cause attached. TALLGLASS said the mental and physical health of team members deteriorated significantly over the past few years of development, and that one member was hospitalized. Rather than delay, the studio is cutting the game's scope and releasing earlier, with the bulk of remaining work going to Buster Jam, a minigame collection and action game influenced by WarioWare that is expected in 2027.
Backers are not being asked to accept the smaller game in place of what they funded. They receive full refunds and free copies of both titles. BOOM! Buster casts the player as Buster, an explosives enthusiast hunting the enraged wizard known as The Wizard to recover stolen bombs, with bombs sorted by color between fights.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.