'Bridge Constructor Ultimate Edition' Out Now for Nintendo Switch!

Delve into the relaxing joy of bridge construction with intuitive touchscreen controls and two included heavy-duty add-ons

31 January 2020 The Ultimate Edition of Headup's popular physics-based puzzle game franchise, Bridge Constructor, will is available now in the Nintendo eShop (US/EU).

With over 50 million downloads on various platforms, the famous Bridge Constructor has a massive player base. Today, users of the Nintendo Switch will also get the chance to enjoy its captivating, yet relaxing gameplay.

At a price of €14.99, $14.99 or £11.99, the Bridge Constructor Ultimate Edition utilizes the Switch's touchscreen functions for highly intuitive bridge building gameplay, as well as contains the two heavy-duty add-ons "Trains" and "Slopemania":

• Base Game - The original Bridge Constructor features 40 physics-based levels varying from easy to very hard, making you an accomplished bridge builder without any formal training.
   
• SlopeMania - Featuring another 24 tricky levels that will have you using sloping lanes (and jumps!) to overcome massive height differences. Did you ever see a flying 40-ton tank truck? This is your chance!
   
• Trains - Another 18 brain-twisting levels - and it gets even heavier: Build even stronger bridges to get some extremely heavy trains securely over beautiful rivers and dizzyingly deep ravines.

Check out the new Launch Trailer:
 


About Bridge Constructor Ultimate Edition

Bridge Constructor Ultimate Edition includes the "Bridge Constructor" and both DLCs "Slopemania" and the "Trains" Expansion Pack!

In Bridge Constructor, you can become an accomplished bridge builder without any formal training. Play 40 different levels, and build bridges over deep valleys, canals, or rivers. Stress tests reveal whether the bridge you build can withstand the daily stress of continual use from cars and trucks.

You can choose between a range of materials for each individual bridge, such as wood, steel, cables, or concrete pillars. Use the appropriate materials and stay within budget to build the perfect bridge. Thanks to the choice of materials, you can build each bridge in any number of ways – your budget is the only limit. Set your imagination and creativity free!

Features:

• 40 Levels on the island nation of Camatuga
• Now with free build mode
• 5 Settings: City, Canyon, Beach, Mountains, Hills
• Map with all unlocked worlds/levels
• Intuitive touchscreen controls
• 4 different building materials: Wood, Steel, Cables, Concrete pillars
• Color coded load indicator for different building materials
• Three different load bearing levels: Car, Truck and Tanker
• High score per level
• Slopemania Add-On: 24 "sloping" levels incl. especially tricky crazy levels
• Trains Add-On: Open up 3 new islands with 18 heavy-duty levels

In the SlopeMania add-on you find yourself on the Tiltin Islands, home to three brand new islands where you'll even be building your bridges inside colorful grottoes! The 24 tricky, never-before-seen levels will have you using sloping lanes to overcome the massive height differences. The "Crazy Levels" are the real brainteasers and require out-of-the-box thinking and unusual solutions. The "Trains" DLC lets you visit the "Choonited Kingdom" island group, with a total of 18 new levels across three islands. Build massive bridges that can withstand the enormous weight of the two new vehicles on offer – a commuter train and a heavily loaded freight train. The idyllic and beautifully designed landscapes will make the heart of every railroad fanatic skip a beat.

   

Enter a Korean Shadow Realm with 'The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters'!

Launching for PC, Mac and Linux, with 97% Positive User Reviews

28 January 2020 Together with our friends at Devespresso Games we are pleased to announce the full release of The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters - an atmospheric, story-driven Korean survival horror game. It’s now available on Steam and GOG for €14.99 / $14.99 / £11.99, and playable on PC, Mac, and Linux.

The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters continues the dark and sinister adventure from The Coma: Recut with players journeying beyond the deserted Sehwa High School and into the surrounding district. Featuring vibrant, hand-illustrated visuals by Minho Kim combined with a nightmare-fuelled story of a relentless slasher by T. L. Riven, The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters precariously balances the urgency of exploration with the need for survival. Set in a distinctly Korean environment, The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters explores universal themes of friendship, bullying and the pressure to achieve academically.

Since its Early Access launch in November 2019, The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters received rave user reviews with 97% of the Steam players posting positive reviews and gaining 'Overwhelmingly Positive' status in the last 30 days. Check out the official trailer:
 

New players will not require familiarity with the story from The Coma: Recut. The sequel follows the journey of a new protagonist, Mina Park, and her first experience in the Shadow Realm. Those who are familiar with the story will be rewarded for their knowledge of the lore, some references and cameo appearances from returning characters.

Early Access buyers will receive a free Art Book and an eerie Original Soundtrack at release. For new buyers, the Art book, soundtrack, and two skins will be available to purchase separately or as part of the Deluxe Bundle:

• The Full Game: €14.99 / $14.99 / £11.99
• Soundtrack: €3.99 / $3.99 / £3.19
• Art book: €3.99 / $3.99 / £3.19
• 2 Character Skins (price per skin): €1.99 / $1.99 / £1.69 
• Deluxe Bundle (Game + Soundtrack + Art book + 2 Skins):
  €22.99 / $22.99 / £18.49

Two Skins are available at release and will be included in the Deluxe Bundle:

• Locks of Love - Featuring an avatar and portraits with a new hairstyle
• Winter Princess - Featuring the Sehwa winter school uniform

Additional skins are planned for post-release including ‘School Bully’, ‘Summer Child’, ‘Model Student’, ‘Local Celeb’, ‘Beach Bum’, and ‘Gamer Girl’.


With its full release, new plots and new surprises were added, too:
 

• An all-new ending & theme song
• New lines of dialogue with newly voiced characters 
• Secret rooms waiting to be discovered
• Bonus main screen wallpapers
• New "kill screens" 
• Trading cards
• 10 additional Achievements

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About The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters
Mina Park, a student of Sehwa High, awakens in the dead of night in her school. She soon realizes that something is amiss. The once-familiar school where she spends her evenings studying looks twisted and changed. She finds herself pursued by someone or something that looks eerily like her English teacher. To survive, Mina must venture beyond the boundaries of her school and into the surrounding district. There, she will encounter strange creatures, mysterious strangers, and uneasy allies.

Features:

• Fear Dark Song’s relentless pursuit to kill you, now with an all-new AI.
• Craft items to prepare for critical life-or-death situations or risk permanent injury.
• Explore the nightmarish district of Sehwa and discover its dark secrets.
• Scavenge resources to survive deadly encounters and afflictions.
• Unlock tools and upgrades to reach previously inaccessible areas.
• Hide to avoid detection and certain death. Pass challenges to conceal your location.
• Featuring vibrant, hand-illustrated in-game visuals and comic strips.

Krampus is Coming to Town with The Textorcist's New Holiday Update

Have you been naughty or nice?

24 December 2019 Ho Ho Ho fellow Textorcists,

Christmas is here and Santa Claus finished checking his list.
Instead of opening his presents and drinking hot chocolate, Textorcist Ray Bibbia is being visited by the evil half-demon Krampus!

The full story: Ray just decorated his office - there are stockings, wreaths and even a Christmas tree. He waited until Christmas Eve before opening his presents. But when he finally did, one of the first presents didn't contain a present at all - no, it's Krampus, an evil spirit who is now available in The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia. (Currently discounted.)

Can you save Ray´s Christmas and beat the evil half-demon? The clock is already ticking, so prepare yourself and get ready for a true Christmas horror story!

Happy Holidays!


About The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia
 
Get ready for an electrifying mix between a bullet game and a typing hell! Dodge bullets while typing exorcisms and jump into the adventure of Ray Bibbia, a private exorcist who's going to face the threats of a demonic outbreak and deal with his sinful past at the same time! A city in decay, streets filled with thugs and only one man to stop it all. Groundbreaking gameplay, exorcists, demons, the Pope and tons of hardcore action-filled boss battles for the first type em up game ever realized.
 
Features

• Intense storytelling
• Tons of bullets
• Lots of typing
• 10 Boss fights (+ Krampus)
• Challenging twisted typing mechanics for every boss
• Type even to open a door
• Type on a Holyvetti computer
• Show it off with online leaderboards
• Play with the keyboard for a typing experience or with a gamepad for a rhythm experience
• Original Soundtrack composed by GosT
• Some more bullets

Forgotten Relics Update Features:

• Boss Rush Mode (Speedrunners welcome!)
• Story Mode now offers 30 (+1) Trinkets
• Hardcore Boss Fights
• Updated Leader Boards

Dead Age: Popular Tactical Zombie Apocalypse Has Been Unleashed on PS4

23 December 2019 Happy Holidays!

Great news for fans of zombie games on PS4: Dead Age just released! Dead Age is a tactical zombie horror RPG made by Silent Dreams, available now on the European and American PlayStation®Store at a price of $14.99, €14.99 and £12.99.

The game drops the players right into the middle of a fierce zombie apocalypse, challenging them to rebuild society and make tough decisions while fending off hordes of undead in tactical, turn-based battles. Check out the PS4 Launch Trailer!

This combination and its unique atmosphere brought Dead Age great success on Steam and a "Very Positive" overall rating with over 2950 reviews in total. Thanks to the fantastic community support, buyers of the PlayStation™4 version are lucky to receive the best version possible, improved hand in hand with earlier players.

You control a group of survivors, execute dangerous scavenging runs, craft equipment and other useful things, build alliances and fight for survival on a day to day basis. Its round-based battles are inspired by classic RPGs: you can act strategically, use different skills and weapons and even plants bombs and traps. How will you protect your people from this thread?

More about Dead Age

Survive the zombie apocalypse with turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, go on dangerous scavenging runs, build alliances, craft equipment, make difficult story-influencing decisions, defend your camp against undead hordes and experience non-linear rogue-lite elements. In addition, each new playthrough in this Indie Survival-RPG offers different random missions and survivors to meet.

Just after the zombie outbreak you were fortunate enough to join a group of survivors and hole up in their camp. But that does not put you out of danger yet! Food supplies are running low, injured survivors must be tended to and materials have to be scavenged to keep the camp intact. The zombie threat increases steadily and gangs of hostile survivors will cause you to stay on the defensive.

Another feature of Dead Age is its non-linear story with actual in-game consequences. Decisions you make in conflict situations affect the story's future. You can choose to be a hero and save more survivors, or let them die to stock up on supplies. You can build up romance relationships with other survivors or start rivalries that may have disastrous chain reactions. Daily events offer new dangers and situations in which you must make choices which will affect your camp's chances of survival. Live long enough, and have a chance to unlock one of the game's six possible endings.
 

It’s Time to Bust Some Ghosts — Wacky Twin-Stick Shooter Dead End Job is Now Available on PC and Consoles!

13 December 2019 Ghosts got you down? Pelted with poltergeist problems? Well, fret no more – Hector Plasm is on the case! Starting today, the ghost-bustin’-est twin-stick shooter around – Dead End Job, is available for €16.99, £13.99 or $16.99 on Windows PC and Linux via Steam, Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch. For a limited time, all Steam, Xbox One, and Switch users can purchase the game at a 15% discount for about €14.49 resp. £11.89 or $14.49.
 
From developer Ant Workshop – headed up by the former lead level designer on Red Dead Redemption – and publisher Headup, this insane mash-up of Ren & Stimpy and Ghostbusters puts you in the ethereal boots of Hector Plasm. Our hero, employed with the Number One Experts in Paranormal Pest Control, Ghoul-B-Gone – Hector is tasked with ridding the wacky world of meddlesome spectral interlopers. Tag along with our hero for a typical day at work, as he heads all over town to offices overrun by spirits, wraith-infested restaurants, and other creepy community buildings with his good old ghost bustin’ vacuum pack and trusty ol’ plasma blaster, putting abhorrent apparitions to rest for GOOD!
 
In celebration of its launch, Headup presents a brand new release trailer! You can check it here on YouTube and further below, at the end of this text.

Lovers of 90’s cartoons, wacky ghost hunting adventures, or cleanliness, will have a literal blast zooming through the vibrantly cartoony, gag ‘till you laugh, procedurally generated world as they suck up unsuspecting spooky pests. Groove to the beats of award-winning composer Will Morton (of Grand Theft Auto fame) as you rescue residents and chase promotions by wracking up hefty invoices to send to your clients – ghoul by fiendish ghoul! Stream the game on Twitch and Mixer and get your audience in on the action – integrated interactivity allows your viewers to help you devastate demonic intruders or hinder your assault on the afterlife. Whether you play alone or team up with a haunt-hunting buddy for some seamless drop-in/drop-out split-screen couch co-op action, Dead End Job is sure to keep you coming back for more!

Check it out now, available on Steam,Microsoft Store, PlayStation®Store and Nintendo eShop!

It's our 4th Award as "Best German Publisher"

12 December 2019 Yesterday evening we at Headup (well, at least most of us) were invited to the annual German Developers Awards in Cologne, Germany.

The evening turned into a reason for celebration as we were surprisingly awarded as Best German Publisher for the fourth time - what a great present and honor during our 10 year anniversary.

You always wanted to know how we look like in the real world? Well, here we are - and very happy:
 
If you feel like it, come and celebrate with us on Facebook or Twitter and feel free to leave some enjoyable comments - we can take the heat!

Everreach: Project Eden out now on Steam and Xbox One

Explore the Mysterious World of Planet Eden on PC and Xbox One Today

04 December 2019    

What Goes Behind Making a Game Like "Dead End Job"?

New Developer Video Interview Available (feat. Tony Gowland)

25 November 2019 For most of us, “another day at the office” does not involve vacuuming up ghosts and battling other sinister spirits. But that’s exactly what it’s all about in Dead End Job, the upcoming twin-stick, couch co-op, procedurally generated game that’s hitting PC and consoles in December. What would inspire someone to create such a zany concept? Well, that’s what today’s new video interview aims to answer, as the team at Ant Workshop explains what the creation process was like for this wild and wacky game!  Don’t wait — watch the video now and see what’s up with this ghost-bustin’ adventure as it prepares for release on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch on Friday, the 13th of December.

Developed by the former lead level designer on Red Dead Redemption, this insane mash-up of Ren & Stimpy meets Ghostbusters puts you in the ethereal boots of Hector Plasm. As a simple salary-specter, employed with the Number One Experts in Paranormal Pest Control, Ghoul-B-Gone — Hector is tasked with ridding the wacky world of meddlesome spectral interlopers. Tag along with our hero for just another day at the office as he heads all over town to offices overrun by spirits, wraith-infested restaurants, and other creepy community buildings with his good old ghost bustin’ vacuum pack and trusty ol’ plasma blaster, putting abhorrent apparitions to rest for GOOD!