Hey! How’s it going? 

Eating well? Sleeping in? Folding clothes? 

That’s so great to hear.

- Oh, us? Nah, we haven’t been up to much. 

Well, except for all the work we’ve put into our new game Blighted. Check it out!

As you know, we announced Blighted back in June as part of Summer Game Fest 2025, and we’ve been hard at work on it since. (Thanks for wishlisting it, by the way. It really does help 🙏)

We don’t want to spoil too much, buuuut we’ve added a TON of enemies to the game, and are still adding more! Each of them deadly in their own weird and freaky little way.

It’s hard to believe but we actually built out an early version of the entire game as part of an internal-alpha milestone! And right now we’re in the middle of tearing it all up, choosing the best bits, adding juicy challenges and putting it all back together again.

Now, it might sound like we don’t have much left to do, but that couldn’t be further from the truth! We’re still fine tuning the gameplay and combat loop to go beyond the standard we’ve established in any of our other games thus far. Blight is getting deadlier, and gnarlier too. Our programmers are working all sorts of technical magic to make Blighted shine, ooze and wriggle. And every new object in the game is another opportunity for our artists to draw up a fresh nightmarish creation to populate the growing world. And Jim Guthrie is still sending us tracks that put shivers down our spines in all of the best ways.

We're also prepping the soundtrack from Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack to be released on Steam very soon! As one of our first major releases, Mutant Blobs Attack will always hold a special place in our ears - because the soundtrack by Peter Chapman and Shaun Hatton is SO GOOD. If you ever need a shot of caffeine directly into your earlobes, load up this soundtrack, sit back, and get back up again because your toes will not stop tapping.

On the more human side, we recently took the team out to get their quarterly quota of exercise by running, jumping, dodging, ducking, dipping, diving, dodging, throwing, shooting (basketball), shooting (gun) and yelling with Activate[playactivate.com]. We then gathered for our biggest team photo to date!! (we’re still missing an international co-worker or two, but we’ll get them one day!)

Huh. Turns out we have in fact been ‘up to much’! Sorry for all the yapping. As a thank you for listening, we’ve put all of our games on sale on Steam!

Catch you later!

The Drinkbox Team

• Cass: Nioh, Dragon's Dogma, Remnant 2
  
• Fred: Paradise Marsh, Risk of Rain Returns, Plate Up
  
• Gabby: Zelda TOTK, Baldur’s Gate 3, Dave the Diver, Slay the Princess
  
• Graham: Baldur's Gate 3, Zelda TOTK, Mario Wonder
  
• Greg: Lethal Company
  
• Ian: Time Crisis 4, Cobalt Core, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
  
• Josh: Hi-Fi Rush, Mario Wonder
  
• Matheus: Alan Wake 2, Spider-man 2, Elden Ring
  
• Mau: Mario Wonder, Zelda TOTK, Metroid Prime
  
• Mike: Baldur's Gate 3, Armored Core VI, Cyberpunk 2077
  
• Ryan: Dungeons & Dragons (pen and paper)
  
• Steele: Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, Victoria 3, RimWorld
  
• Vlad: Counter-Strike 2, Squad, Spider-Man 2, Armored Core VI

• 2 new t-shirts featuring Guacamelee heroes and villains
  
• A Pollo enamel pin with SPINNING legs
  
• A standee featuring Juan vs Guacamelee 2 villains

• “After finishing Nobody Saves the World, I went right back to it… When a game is this much frictionless fun, it's hard to resist.” 9 – GameSpot[www.gamespot.com]
  
• “Nobody Saves the World kept me enthralled from start to finish.” 8.25 – Game Informer[www.gameinformer.com]
  
• “...A wonderfully technical game that offers the freedom to let you discover the quality of its craft in your own time.” 80 – PC Gamer
  
• “Drinkbox's latest is as polished and colourful as you might expect - and it's as generous too. I had fun. I am still having fun.” RECOMMENDED – Eurogamer[www.eurogamer.net]

• "Blending the humor of the studio’s past games with the developers’ penchant for upending classic genre ideas, the opening missions of Nobody I played hint at a fascinating, funny, and fulfilling RPG adventure." – IGN
  
• "It's pacy and fluid, slick, but light. It's great, and a good example of what this studio's all about. A layer of loveable goof, at ground level, that soon gives way to a much deeper well of combat, and systems, and a quiet mastery of genre." – Eurogamer[www.eurogamer.net]
  
• "From its weird genre-bending locations to its highly customizable gameplay and its funny, strange story, it looks like Drinkbox has succeeded in unifying a variety of different ideas for its take on the action-RPG genre.” – Gamespot[www.gamespot.com]

• Cass: Spelunky 2 (again), Inscryption, Everhood
  
• Daniel: Wildermyth, Inscryption, Final Fantasy X
  
• Gabby: Chicory, Unpacking, Bloodborne
  
• Graham: Inscription, Psychonauts 2, It Takes Two
  
• Ian: Twilight Imperium, Hitman 1/2/3, Teardown
  
• Igor: Rimworld, Oxygen Not Included, Spelunky 2
  
• Jace: Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Hades, FEZ
  
• Josh: Super Mario Galaxy, Unsighted, Root
  
• Kyle: Death Stranding, Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
  
• Mike: Guilty Gear Strive, Hitman III, Returnal
  
• Vlad: Jak X, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, DoTA 2

• One of our favourite games ever, Dead Cells, made tribute to several indie games, including our very own Guacamelee’s Juan!
  
• Juan also makes a cameo in our friends’ game The Big Con

• “Blending the humor of the studio’s past games with the developers’ penchant for upending classic genre ideas, the opening missions of Nobody I played hint at a fascinating, funny, and fulfilling RPG adventure.” Jonathon Dornbush, IGN
  
  
• “It's pacy and fluid, slick, but light. It's great, and a good example of what this studio's all about. A layer of loveable goof, at ground level, that soon gives way to a much deeper well of combat, and systems, and a quiet mastery of genre.” Chris Tapsell, Eurogamer
  
  
• “One dungeon I explored was a crashed UFO site, whose stranded occupants needed me to sweep the area of monsters and get the power back on, for example. It’s a DrinkBox production, after all, where you can almost see the developers’ whiteboard with a zillion ideas written on it.” Owen S. Good, Polygon

• Cass: Spelunky 2
  
• Gabby: Hades
  
• Graham: Crosscode
  
• Ian: Devil May Cry 5
  
• Josh: Rocket League
  
• Kaitlin: Animal Crossing New Horizons
  
• Mayuran: Hades, Factorio
  
• Mike: Hades, Demon's Souls remake
  
• Steph: Astro’s Playroom

• The Guacamelee! One Two Punch Collection was released in Europe!
  
• Juan made a cameo in Bounty Battle, along with several other indie game protagonists
  
• NOW Magazine named Guacamelee! one of their Top 10 Toronto-made Games (a lot of great games are made in Toronto so we’re very honoured!!)
  
• We partnered with Ship to Shore to create TWO vinyl records for both Guacamelee! and Guacamelee! 2! You can pre-order them both here[shiptoshoremedia.com]