Landfall Games
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| Industry | Video games |
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| Founded | 2015 |
| Founders | Philip Westre, Wilhelm Nylund, Petter Henriksson |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of employees | 12 |
| Website | landfall |
Landfall Games is an indie video game studio, co-founded by Philip Westre and Wilhelm Nylund in 2015, based in Stockholm, Sweden.[1] The studio developed games like Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Content Warning, Clustertruck, Totally Accurate Battlegrounds and others. Landfall are highly known for releasing their games on April Fool's Day.[2][3]
History
[edit]In 2014, high schoolers Philip Westre and Wilhelm Nylund started developing their first game called Air Brawl, which is "A fast-paced multiplayer dogfighting game". The game was nominated for the Swedish Game Awards in 2014, and a year after, on June 2, 2015, was published on Steam.[4] In 2015, Philip and Wilhelm co-founded a company, which was initially called "Wilnyls Game Company".[5] Later, Petter Henriksson and Karl Flodin joined the development team, and the company was renamed to "Landfall", as it remains today.
In 2015, after the release of Square Brawl, the development of Clustertruck began. The game was described as "chaotic physics-based truckformer", and insipred by Wilhelm Nylund's real-life story, when while traveling home from Gamescom, he imagined himself escaping traffic by jumping on trucks to get home faster,[6] which led to the creation of the prototype of the game. Clustertruck was released on Steam on September 27, 2016, published by tinyBuild. The game was often compared to "The floor is lava",[7] Jed Whitaker from Destructoid described game as "Stupid, fun, stupid fun", though the game had set the genre for all future Landfall games.
In November 2016, Landfall showed an alpha-version of their new project, known as Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (abbreviated TABS), which was a physics-based strategy, where the player can create armies for a limited amount of in-game valute to defeat an enemy force.[8] The game was released on April 2, 2021, together with other game, known as Rounds.[9] The game received generally positive reviews, and by now remains the biggest game of Landfall, having over 120,000 reviews on Steam, of which about 97% are positive.
On April 1, 2024 was released a co-op survival-horror video game called Content Warning. It reached over 50 thousand concurrent players in the first twelve hours after the launch and about 2.2 million sales after 2 months after on Steam.[10][11] Content Warning was a huge success for Landfall, which attracted more players to the company's other games.[12] By now, the company has about 12 employees, the CEO of company is Wilhelm Nylund and the COO is Petter Henriksson.[13]
Games Developed
[edit]Landfall are known for publishing their games on 1 April - the April Fool's Day.[2][3] The studio specializes on multiplayer games. On their official website, they descibe themselves with a quote of Petter Henriksson, the COO of the company:
"Small studio staying small. Makes physics games, also other games, sometimes funny. Doing well, now funds things sometimes, only cool stuff."
| Year | Title | Platform(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Air Brawl | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| 2015 | Square Brawl | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| 2016 | Clustertruck | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| 2017 | Stick Fight: The Game | Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch |
| Stick Fight: The Game | Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch | |
| 2018 | Totally Accurate Battlegrounds | Windows |
| 2019 | Totally Accurate Battle Simulator | Windows, MacOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch |
| 2021 | Rounds | Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S |
| 2022 | Knightfall: A Daring Journey | Windows |
| 2023 | Landfall Archives | Windows |
| 2024 | Content Warning | Windows |
| 2025 | Haste: Broken Worlds | Windows |
References
[edit]- ^ "Landfall - ABGames". abgames.io. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
- ^ a b Ferguson, Liam (2024-04-04). "This Lethal Company-Inspired Game is Much More Than an April Fools' Joke". Game Rant. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ a b "Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is out now (and it's not an April Fools)". PCGamesN. 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "Swedish company Landfall Games protects Colombian rainforest". Gamesforest.club. 2021-11-17. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
- ^ "Air Brawl Release Information for PC - GameFAQs". gamefaqs.gamespot.com. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "Gamasutra - Fleshing out Clustertruck's high concept into a satisfying game". 2020-12-04. Archived from the original on 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "Review: Clustertruck (Switch eShop)". Nintendo Life. 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "TOTALLY ACCURATE BATTLE SIMULATOR Is Indeed Totally Accurate and Totally Hilarious". Nerdist. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "Landfall отметила 1 апреля релизом сразу четырёх игр — Игромания". Igromania.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "Продано 2,2 миллиона копий Content Warning. В игру за два месяцы сыграли 8,8 миллиона игроков". ixbt.games (in Russian). Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "What is Content Warning? New horror game designed to make you go viral". Dexerto. 2024-04-02. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ Park, Morgan (2025-04-01). "One year after surprise launching viral hit Content Warning, Landfall does it again with lightspeed running roguelike Haste". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "About". Landfall. Retrieved 2025-05-01.