Release date: 10th of June 2026
Platform: Steam (Windows)
Finnish Indie game developer Fobri is having their debut game release on Steam, after a popular demo launch four months ago.
Burglin’ Gnomes is a chaotic co-op adventure game which sets the players to ‘burgle’ randomly generated houses by stealing random household items and performing tasks as requested by the High-Gnome.
The game heavily utilizes random generation to keep every round fresh, by making the environment unique and getting players random tasks every round. The game has scaling difficulty which increases each passing round, making the tasks harder and increasing the number of hostile enemies.
“Back when Lethal Company became a hit, I was watching some streamers play it and thought, ‘Wow, this is a great idea, just give the players some weird goal and a fantasy to fulfill and add all sorts of funny interactions to create an emergent gameplay experience’. I then set out to make a freer and more open world version of such an experience, motivating the players to interact with various things by giving them tasks to do,” says Developer Fobri.
Burglin’ Gnomes will be launching on Steam, with other platforms being considered for the future.
Core features:
- First person POV
- 6 player Online Co-Op
- Craft items and furniture using resources from stolen household items
- Custom fully procedural house generation algorithm
- Defend yourself against a variety of enemies using the environment and your equipment
- Upgrade your home and place functional furniture such as a gnome cannon or potion station inside
- Scaling difficulty between rounds
- Elaborate physics-based simulation with active ragdolls and pushing with your hands
- In-game proximity chat
- 5 unique levels with each their own challenges
Supported Languages:
The game is set to support the following languages on release:
English, Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese Simplified, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Turkish, Spanish (Latin American), Ukrainian, Finnish.
Additional questions and inquiries: gamesbyfobri@gmail.com
Burglin’ Gnomes on Steam
Release Date Trailer on Youtube
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About Fobri
Fobri is a Finnish indie game developer, who started their career at a very young age, having been honing their craft since the early teens. Burglin’ Gnomes is the first commercial release for Fobri, with him deeming his earlier work ‘not good enough’ to have warranted any public release. He did attempt to create a commercial game called "Peasants Love Magic”, however abandoned it due to it being ‘not good enough’ as well. During all the years of learning game development he has become an expert at Unity game development, and quite well versed in 3D art and other related things.