Rangatang and Glowfish Interactive have revealed their first game together: Nubs. Sorry, that should be Nubs!. You have to shout it. It’s a multiplayer brawler coming to PC in 2025.
Rangatang is formed by a crew from the core team at Ronimo, the folks behind Awesomenauts and Swords and Soldiers. Ronimo went bankrupt in 2023, with Atari scooping the rights to their old properties. And that’s how we got to Nubs!.
As I’ve already mentioned, Nubs! is a multiplayer brawler. Not like Smash Bros, mind you. Looking at it, it reminds me of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords; that awesome four-player coop GBA spin-off that would later get a standalone upgrade on GameCube, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures. Not that you would typically fight with your friends in Four Swords unless someone refused to share and tempers began to run hot.
It’s a top-down game, but where it really reminds me of Four Swords is its weapons swinging and bouncing physics. There are also wands, boomerangs, and bombs. I’m pretty confident in my comparison. Check out the trailer and tell me I’m wrong.
Also, it’s weird. The whole trailer starts off with a grotesquely swollen head that inhales and then lasers a person. The art style is detailed and fun. Both Rangatang and Glowfish seem to have a very art-forward focus, and it shows.
Nubs! is probably not for me, though. I’m not much of a multiplayer, and when I am, brawlers aren’t usually what I reach for. The people who will actually pick up a controller around me are mostly my family, and regardless of what we’re playing, my beefy gamer thumbs would wipe the floor with them at anything competitive. So, I typically push toward coop. Even if I was making an exception, it being PC only at the start wouldn’t suit my group. It is coming with an online mode, but multiplayer is mostly for being social in my family.
However, there is a roguelite progression mode. The details on it are a little vague right now, but here’s what it says on that: “Stay on your toes with a variety of game modes and a roguelite progression system that ensures no two play sessions are the same. Dive in and see what surprises await!”
Nubs! is planned for release on PC sometime in 2025.
