APRIL FOOLS GAMES
(LANDFALL DAY)
April Fool's jokes have become a bit of a tradition for us, here you can read about Supertruck, TABZ, TABG, the launch of TABS and the Bug DLC, Knightfall and Landfall Day!
CONTENT WARNING
Film your friends do scary things to become SpöökTube famous!
CONTENT WARNING
Film your friends do scary things to become SpöökTube famous! Content Warning is a co-op horror game about getting famous or die trying.
ARCHIVES 2023
23 projects 2016-2023
LANDFALL ARCHIVES
Explore the Landfall Archives and steal unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an old version of TABS!
Landfall Archives is a collection of every project Landfall and friends have worked on since 2016 that didn't make it to shelves but deserves to see the light of day.
KNIGHTFALL 2022
Drifting horses and knights in love!
KNIGHTFALL
For Landfall Day 2022 we made a horse-drifting-romance-roadtrip-battle-royale game!
In Knightfall: A Daring journey, up to 24 players pair up in teams of two with the goal to reach the castle and pluck the rose before anyone else.
The journey will take many days and the knights must take shelter in different towns on the way so as to not freeze to death during the harsh nights.
LANDFALL DAY 2021
Four releases in one day!
WHAT HAPPENED ON LANDFALL DAY?
For 2021 we decided to play a joke on ourselves rather than our community by releasing four games in one day. TABS 1.0, TABG Free to Play, Rounds and Stick Fight on the Nintendo Switch!
BUG DLC 2020
A paid DLC full of bugs?
TABS - BUG DLC
This year we did the unthinkable and shipped a buggy DLC with the team being completely aware of how terrible the content is. All these “known shippables” make Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, a game known for its groundbreaking physics engine and realistic simulations, completely unplayable for its rabid player base.
We have even decided to charge the player base $4.99 USD FOR BUGS!
BUT FOR REAL THOUGH
For every copy of DLC sold, at least $2,5 USD of the proceeds went to Doctors Without Borders throughout April 1st, 2020. Then we released it for free.
Available on Steam, Epic, and Xbox.
Press kit with Logos, PNGs etc: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HsaC2uOiPJHL_X6xYg5QIHrt7d-fPccy
TABS 2019
Launching TABS on April Fools.
TOTALLY ACCURATE BATTLE SIMULATOR
First day back to work after New Years 2019 Landfall CEO and Game Designer Wilhelm Nylund had a new goal for the team - How about we launch TABS on April Fools Day 2019?
The game had been in development since the summer of 2016 and the community had been begging for a release date ever since. We got to work finishing what needed to be finished for an Early Access release.
The months leading up to the release we told the community nothing - launching without any pre-hype on April Fools 2019.
We couldn’t just launch the game without making a proper April Fool’s joke, Everyone who opened the game on the first day were met with a Rickroll starring a TABS unit - the game then launched with the old Alpha menu making the player believe the game wasn’t finished after all.
TABG 2018
“Making a battle royale game in three weeks can’t be that hard right?”
TOTALLY ACCURATE BATTLEGROUNDS
TABG was originally an April Fools parody of the Battle Royale genre. A bunch of physics-based weirdos fight it out on an island and race to be the last weirdo standing.
The original plan was to make the game in three weeks - that later spanned to a little less than three months. TABG launched on June 6th of 2018 and was free for the first four days.
The game gained a massive following (more than 3 million downloads) in the first couple of days of its launch, something we hadn’t anticipated. Zero Punctuation puts it very well in this clip https://youtu.be/SGj4O_hCB44?t=129
The development of the game continued until the end of 2018 when it was paused to finish our main game - Totally Accurate Battle Simulator. Development started back up in 2020 and the game went Free to Play on April 1st 2021! Read more about the current game here.
FACT SHEET
Developed and published: Landfall Games
Development time of original game: March-June 2018
Original Release: June 6th 2018
Development of free to play version: 2020-ongoing
Release date Free to Play: 1st of April 2020
Price: Free for people who download in the first 100 hours and then 4.99$
Press contact: pr@landfall.se
2018 TRAILER
TABZ 2017
TABS is cancelled - we’re making a zombie survival game instead.
Totally Accurate Battle Zombielator
TABZ our homage to Day-Z made in the nine days before April Fool's day 2017. After a lot of requests for zombie units in TABS from the community as well as the team venturing into first-person gameplay during a recent game jam 2017:s, game mashup was a given.
The team sent out the following email to accompany the game, telling our community that we had canceled the much anticipated TABS:
"Guys, we have some pretty big news! We are no longer working on TABS, because honestly who wants to play a silly physics-based simulator when what you actually want is first-person shooters and zombies. Therefore we switched our focus and made a zombie survival game called Totally Accurate Battle Zombielator."
FEATURES
20 person multiplayer survival.
Revolutionary first-person physics shooting.
Zombie spawn points.
Procedural silly walk system.
FACT SHEET
Developer and publisher: Landfall Games
Development: March 2017
Release: April 1st 2017
Price: Free
Press contact: pr@landfall.se
TRAILER
SUPER TRUCK 2016
SUPER TRUCK
Supertruck was the teams very first April Fool's joke game combining Clustertruck with Superhot.
ARTICLES
https://www.pcgamer.com/super-truck-is-superhot-but-with-trucks
https://www.destructoid.com/superhot-meets-clustertruck-in-super-truck-352666.phtml
https://www.destructoid.com/superhot-meets-clustertruck-in-super-truck-352666.phtml
FACT SHEET
Developer: Landfall Games
Publisher: tinyBuild
Development: March 2016
Release: April 1st 2016
Price: Free
Press contact: pr@landfall.se