For the reason that very starting, we knew Rockbeasts was one thing particular. To us, at the least. Not as a result of it’s the largest recreation, or the most secure wager. Fairly the alternative. It’s not constructed round a style you possibly can neatly file it below. It’s constructed round a theme, a really particular fantasy that comes straight from our personal experiences and our personal love of music – and the way it formed us. That’s what makes it particular. It’s additionally precisely what makes it laborious.
For anybody simply discovering us: Rockbeasts is a rock and roll administration RPG. You’re not the frontman, not the drummer, however the supervisor. Your job is to take a band from a storage stuffed with ego, suggestions, and half-finished songs, all the best way to the largest phases on the market. Alongside the best way, you’ll juggle assets, wrangle personalities, put out fires (generally literal ones), and attempt to maintain the entire stunning mess collectively lengthy sufficient to make it massive.
Video games like this, those pushed by feeling fairly than method, don’t play good with algorithms. They’re tougher to pitch, tougher to categorize, tougher to place in entrance of the individuals who’d truly love them. We knew that entering into. We additionally knew that if this concept ever received the correct assist behind it, it may change into one thing a lot larger than what we may construct alone.
That assist has arrived.
We’re past proud to share that Lichthund is partnering with Critical Role, each creatively and on the publishing aspect. Their expertise, expertise and actually, their style for tales with actual coronary heart, mixed with every thing we’ve poured into our recreation, is precisely the mix we at all times hoped for. This partnership is what ought to let Rockbeasts change into the sport we at all times wished it to be, as a substitute of the sport we needed to accept.
It took us a second to get right here. And there’s nonetheless lots we have to deal with as we need to make Rockbeasts the very best model of itself. However we’re prepared. As if we had been to enter a rock stage ourselves.Matthew Mercer and Sam Riegel will share that stage with us, as they’re formally becoming a member of Rockbeasts’s solid. Seeing our characters performed by them is a dream come true. If Critical Role (and in case you don’t, please do your self a favor and verify them out), what these two deliver to a personality: chaos, coronary heart, and a degree of dedication that makes a script really feel like a real journey. That’s precisely the power our recreation wants, as a result of managing a band this unhinged was by no means going to be a quiet job. And there’s extra to come back, so please stick with us on this final mile resulting in the discharge – and right here’s the second, equally thrilling half…
Rockbeasts launches on PS5 in January 2027!
That’s while you’ll lastly get to take a seat within the supervisor’s chair, wrangle your personal fantastically damaged band, and attempt to get them to the stage they deserve – in a single piece, in case you’re fortunate.
We’ve been constructing towards this second for a very long time. For these of you already with us – thanks from the underside of our hearts for believing in one thing somewhat totally different. For these we’re nearly to satisfy – welcome and benefit from the tour.
You can wishlist Rockbeasts now in preparation for launch in January 2027.