The Overcooked team has a new, scary co-op game called Stage Fright

There are two great news here. First, the indie studio behind the Overcooked series, Ghost Town Games, is working on a new title called stage frightand will support online and couch co-op play. Rad! second, stage fright It is published by No sky man studio Hello Games, a move that marks Hello’s first foray into publishing other studios’ projects. Double rad!

stage fright Built around cooperative play, its mechanics bring Overcooked-style chaos to a series of escape room environments in a spooky world resembling Luigi’s Mansion. It doesn’t have a release date but it’s on my wishlist from now on steam.

Overcooked The game’s sequel has helped revitalize the co-op genre in recent years, offering frenetic restaurant gameplay that always feels more fun – and screaming – with a friend. Overcooked Supports couch co-op and Overcooked 2 Introduced online collaboration for the series. stage fright It represents the culmination of everything Ghost Town learned about co-op gaming from Overcooked, with both local and online play.

“There’s nothing else really playing Overcooked When he came out and stage fright “It’s quite innovative, but in a really different direction,” said Tim Woodley, head of publishing at Hello Games.

Ghost Town Games has a core team of just three people, founders Oli De-Vine and Phil Duncan as well as writer Gemma Langford. It has been developed stage fright Under the codename Project Attic – because they literally built this game in their attic – and Their website Lists six additional shareholders. There are also Hello Games of Everything.

De-Vine and Duncan have been friends with the Hello Games crew — including founders Sean Murray, Grant Duncan, Ryan Doyle, and David Ream — for years. After Hello found success with Dangerous atmosphere In 2010, they helped connect Ghost Town with the eventual publisher of OvercookedTeam 17. Overcooked It was released in 2016 and the rest is culinary collaboration history.

“Phil and Ollie came to see us for advice on our first demo of Overcooked “About ten years ago,” Woodley said. “We have fond memories of the four Hello founders who played that game Overcooked The demo, yelling at each other about onions – it was immediately clear that this was something special.”

Hello Games is currently in development Light not firea cooperative survival and exploration game set on a fictional planet as large as Earth, offering a mix of role-playing and sandbox mechanics. The studio also continues to support and expand on its huge success, No sky man (And that seems to be the case It’s going really well). stage fright It will be Hello’s debut as an outside publisher, but that doesn’t mean the studio is turning to publishing full-time.

“Hello Games has a range of expertise that we can offer behind the scenes and support that we can provide, but if we’re honest, it’s really fun to work with a group of creative people that we love spending time with,” Woodley said. “When we played an early version of stage fright We get the same hype we get Overcooked All those years ago. “It’s just something we wanted to be involved in.”

We expect more information about stage fright During the next 12 months.