Landfall Games

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| type = Private

| industry = Video games

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| founded = {{Start date and age|2015}}

| founders = {{Unbulleted list|Petter Henriksson|Wilhelm Nylund|Philip Westre}}

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| hq_location_city = Stockholm

| hq_location_country = Sweden

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| key_people = {{Unbulleted list|Wilhelm Nylund (CEO)|Petter Henriksson (COO)|Tim Käll (CFO)|Rebecca Lautner (CBO)}}

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| num_employees = 12

| website = {{URL|https://landfall.se/}}

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Landfall Games AB (commonly known as simply Landfall) is a Swedish independent video game developer and publisher based in Stockholm.{{Cite web |title=Landfall - ABGames |url=https://abgames.io/developers/landfall/ |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=abgames.io}} The studio is primarily known for Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Content Warning, Clustertruck, Totally Accurate Battlegrounds, among others. Landfall is recognised for releasing games on April Fools' Day.{{Cite web |last=Ferguson |first=Liam |date=2024-04-04 |title=This Lethal Company-Inspired Game is Much More Than an April Fools' Joke |url=https://gamerant.com/content-warning-steam-game-lethal-company-similar-good/ |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=Game Rant |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2019-04-01 |title=Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is out now (and it's not an April Fools) |url=https://www.pcgamesn.com/totally-accurate-battle-simulator/tabs-early-access |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=PCGamesN |language=en-US}}

History

In 2014, high school students 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.{{Cite web |last= |date=2021-11-17 |title=Swedish company Landfall Games protects Colombian rainforest |url=https://gamesforest.club/blog/swedish-company-landfall-games-protects-colombian-rainforest/ |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Gamesforest.club |language=}} In 2015, Philip and Wilhelm co-founded a company, which was initially called "Wilnyls Game Company".{{Cite web |title=Air Brawl Release Information for PC - GameFAQs |url=https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/165353-air-brawl/data?validate=1 |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=gamefaqs.gamespot.com}} 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 a "chaotic physics-based truckformer" and inspired 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,{{Cite web |date=2020-12-04 |title=Gamasutra - Fleshing out Clustertruck's high concept into a satisfying game |url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/283420/Fleshing_out_Clustertrucks__high_concept_into_a_satisfying_game.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204080750/http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/283420/Fleshing_out_Clustertrucks__high_concept_into_a_satisfying_game.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-12-04 |access-date=2025-05-01 }} which led to the creation of the prototype of the game. Clustertruck was released on Steam by tinyBuild on September 27, 2016. The game was often compared to "The floor is lava".{{Cite web |date=2018-03-19 |title=Review: Clustertruck (Switch eShop) |url=https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/switch-eshop/clustertruck |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=Nintendo Life |language=en-GB}} Jed Whitaker from Destructoid described it 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 game, where the player can create armies for a limited amount of in-game value to defeat an enemy force.{{Cite web |title=TOTALLY ACCURATE BATTLE SIMULATOR Is Indeed Totally Accurate and Totally Hilarious |url=https://nerdist.com/article/totally-accurate-battle-simulator-is-indeed-totally-accurate-and-totally-hilarious/ |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=Nerdist |date=21 July 2016 |language=en-US}} The game was released on April 2, 2021, together with other game, known as Rounds.{{Cite web |title=Landfall отметила 1 апреля релизом сразу четырёх игр — Игромания |url=https://www.igromania.ru/news/103826/Landfall_otmetila_1_aprelya_relizom_srazu_chetyryoh_igr.html |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=Igromania.ru |language=ru}} 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, Landfall 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.{{Cite web |title=Продано 2,2 миллиона копий Content Warning. В игру за два месяцы сыграли 8,8 миллиона игроков |url=https://ixbt.games/news/2024/06/04/prodano-22-milliona-kopii-content-warning-v-igru-za-dva-mesyacy-sygrali-88-milliona-igrokov.html |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=ixbt.games |language=ru}}{{Cite web |date=2024-04-02 |title=What is Content Warning? New horror game designed to make you go viral |url=https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/what-is-content-warning-new-horror-game-explained-2623930/ |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=Dexerto |language=en}} Content Warning was a huge success for Landfall, which attracted more players to the company's other games.{{Cite news |last=Park |first=Morgan |date=2025-04-01 |title=One year after surprise launching viral hit Content Warning, Landfall does it again with lightspeed running roguelike Haste |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/one-year-after-surprise-launching-viral-hit-content-warning-landfall-does-it-again-with-lightspeed-running-roguelike-haste/ |access-date=2025-05-01 |work=PC Gamer |language=en}} By now, the company has about 12 employees, the CEO of the company is Wilhelm Nylund and the COO is Petter Henriksson.{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://landfall.se/about |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=Landfall |language=en-US}}

On June 17, 2025, Landfall published a new game together with Aggro Crab Games, called Peak - a cooperative climbing game, where the player's goal is to scale a mountain on a deserted island.{{Cite web |last=Gould |first=Elie |date=2025-06-26 |title=Peak review |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/peak-review/ |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=PC Gamer |language=en}} The game has reached more than 100,000 concurrent players in less than one week after its release, and was greeted with very positive reviews on Steam.{{Cite web |last=Highton |first=Andrew |date=2025-06-24 |title=Peak Has Surpassed 100,000 Concurrent Players After Only One Week on Steam |url=https://insider-gaming.com/peak-has-surpassed-100000-concurrent-players-after-only-one-week-on-steam/ |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=Insider Gaming |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Hore |first=Jamie |date=2025-06-18 |title=Channeling the chaos of Chained Together, this new 93% rated co-op game is just $5 right now |url=https://www.pcgamesn.com/peak/new-co-op-game-steam |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=PCGamesN |language=en-US}} One of developers of the game, Aggro Crab, commented game's success on Twitter: "Why did this stupid jam game sell more copies than Another Crabs Treasure I'm gonna crash out".{{Cite news |last=published |first=Elie Gould |date=2025-06-24 |title='Why did this stupid jam game sell more': Climbing game Peak has sold 1 million copies in under a week, outperforming its developer's most popular game |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/games/im-gonna-crash-out-new-climbing-game-peak-has-sold-1-million-copies-in-less-than-a-week-outperforming-its-developers-most-popular-game/ |access-date=2025-06-28 |work=PC Gamer |language=en}}

List of video games

Landfall is known for publishing their games on the April Fools' Day. The studio specializes on multiplayer games. On their official website, they describe 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."

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" ! scope="col" \| Year ! scope="col" \| Title ! scope="col" \| Platform(s)
scope="row" \| 2015 \| Air Brawl \| Windows, macOS, Linux
scope="row" \| 2015 \| Square Brawl \| Windows, macOS, Linux
scope="row" \| 2016 \| Clustertruck \| Windows, macOS, Linux
scope="row" \| 2017 \| Stick Fight: The Game \| Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch
scope="row" \| 2018 \| Totally Accurate Battlegrounds \| Windows
scope="row" \| 2019 \| Totally Accurate Battle Simulator \| Windows, MacOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
scope="row" \| 2021 \| Rounds \| Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
scope="row" \| 2022 \| Knightfall: A Daring Journey \| Windows
scope="row" \| 2023 \| Landfall Archives \| Windows
scope="row" \| 2024 \| Content Warning \| Windows
scope="row" \| 2025 \| Haste: Broken Worlds \| Windows, macOS
scope="row" \| 2025 \| Peak \| Windows

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"

! scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Platform(s)

scope="row" | 2015

| Air Brawl

| Windows, macOS, Linux

scope="row" | 2015

| Square Brawl

| Windows, macOS, Linux

scope="row" | 2016

| Clustertruck