Warsaw, Poland - November 12th - Bonkies is a jolly, couch co-op party game with a pinch of construction building featuring space monkeys equipped with jetpacks and robo-arms. The wacky, banana-fuelled party couch co-op is wrapping up development and getting ready to monkey around on PC and consoles.
See the Bonkies Space Cadet field guide here : bit.ly/BonkiesGameplayTrailerYT
Having heard the constructive and positive feedback from the Space Cadets playing the game in Steam’s Early Access and getting their jetpacks re-fuelled by Norwegian Game Awards, where Bonkies won Best Design and Player’s Choice, the game’s developers - Studio Gauntlet - now aim to bring Bonkies to world-wide audiences on PC and consoles. Bonkies will be helped in their mission to colonise gaming platforms around the cosmos by Crunching Koalas - a publishing studio with experience in bringing exceptional indie titles to console.
About Bonkies
Bonkies is a jolly party game about cooperation, space construction and the joys of colonising the solar system as a team of monkeys. Players will be tasked with raising all sorts of quirky constructions on distant planets, by stacking blocks so they fit a given outline. To do so, they will have to team up with other space faring animals and master the use of their trusty apequipment - a banana-fuelled jetpack and a powerful robo-arm.
On top of that, they’ll have to utilise the wackiest kinds of blocks (magnets, rockets and even nuclear fusion are no strangers for a well-trained apestronaut), and work in exotic and not-really-monkey-friendly places. Who said space construction was going to be easy?
Bonkies features both single and multiplayer campaigns with tons of hand-crafted levels that require cooperation, quick wits, agility, and coordination to solve in time. Players can choose characters from a varied cast of lovable monkeys (and some other, equally adorable creatures). The game offers a challenging experience, but is first and foremost a light-hearted and joyful take on construction builders and couch co-op games.
Key Game Features:
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Have fun with up to 3 friends or by yourself in single and multiplayer campaigns
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Raise and accidentally topple stacked blocks with physics-based mechanics
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Travel to the far reaches of the solar system and help colonise places like Mars and Pluto
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Tease your brain with tons of cleverly designed challenges
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Make good use of a multitude of special blocks
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Guide monkey astronauts with state-of-the-art equipment
Additional information and assets:
- Website: http://bonkiecorp.com
- Screenshots: bit.ly/BonkiesScreenshots
- Banners: bit.ly/BonkiesBanners
- Trailer:
- YT: bit.ly/BonkiesGameplayTrailerYT
- MP4 file: bit.ly/BonkiesGameplayTrailer
- Bonkies on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/889260/Bonkies/
- Developer: Studio Gauntlet https://studiogauntlet.com/
- Publisher: Crunching Koalas http://crunchingkoalas.com/
About Studio Gauntlet
The team found each other through the university of Trondheim and the startup community there. Alex and Christer, the founders of the studio, both studied together to become industrial designers, they both focused on concepts that aimed at promoting cooperative and social gaming. A team of 2 quickly became a team of 4 with a grand vision to become the greatest Nordic game development studio for social local co-op games!
About Crunching Koalas
Crunching Koalas is a Warsaw-based studio that focuses on bringing exceptional games to
console players across all platforms. Their portfolio includes critically acclaimed titles like
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, Darkwood, This War of Mine: Complete Edition and
Frostpunk: Console Edition.