EDIT: There is a permanent offline demo up on the steam page that’s open to everyone
So I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned this before but I was always disappointed with how the original Fat Princess was treated despite of the fact it was Sony’s first real hit on the old PS3 marketplace as well as a totally unique game that never had a true follow up.
Between the extremely mediocre sequel that turned the game into a okay at best ARPG, to the original FP devs making their own spiritual successor with Squids From Space that lacked the charm of Fat Princess and was abandoned for 5 years now, to the original 2009 game being effectively abandon ware due to the death of the PS3 store front,I felt like the series never had a true chance to shine post PS3.
Well someone has apparently read my mind and now there is a Fat Princess spiritual successor in the form of Fat Goblins, which is currently in development.
And you know what? Its pretty damn good, if a little bit rough right now.
The gameplay is mostly the same as FP, capture the flag with resource gathering and fattening up your princess to make it harder for the enemy to carry her off while trying to grab your own. There are some new additions though, such as every class now having a ultimate that charges up as you score points, classes having new abilities or reworks, like workers now being able to build ladders where ever they want and upgraded workers being able to build catapults to the upgraded ranger now using a musket and dynamite barrels instead of the blunderbuss. There’s also some smaller balance changes, as well as some map specific gimmicks. Only downside is that there only capture the princess, so no FP scoccer, gladiate, domination and death match. But overall its still the hat based CTF multiplayer chaos that made the '09 game so good.
The game has all of the spirit of the original fat princess with the goofy voice lines, the over the top blood, and even some new additions like the “goblin-ized” voice chat that changes your voice to sound like the goblins if you use in game voice chat, leading to stuff like the whole server praising goblin jesus in the middle of a big ass siege for the match point. Good stuff all around, although due to the fact that not many people know about the game, matches are mostly filled with bots and they they currently put the A in AI because they are not great right now.
On the weight gain side of things there’s just the two princesses, and they aren’t quite as good as Princess Plump and Muffin top from FP and there’s probably not going to be any weight gain for the playable goblins just like FP.
Here’s the link to the steam page if you’re interested in the game or joining the test build that’s running right now and will start up again during the next fest in October:
Here’s the weight gain of the princess:
Normally she’s supposed to be smaller for her first weight stage but I grabbed that screen shot when she was just about to hit the second stage.
If you keep feeding her after she reaches the third stage her character model gets very slightly bigger per hunk of meat, no additional weight gain unfortunately.
Hope you all give it a try! It’s pretty fun.
