Landfall Games

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Landfall Games is an indie video game studio, co-founded by Philip Westre and Wilhelm Nylund in 2015, based in Stockholm, Sweden. 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.{{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 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. 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 "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,{{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 on September 27, 2016, published by tinyBuild. The game was often compared to "The floor is lava"{{Cite web |last=Life |first=Nintendo |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 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.{{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 |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 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.{{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 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}}

Games Developed

Landfall are known for publishing their games on 1st April - the April Fool's Day. 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."

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" rowspan="2" \| 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
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

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