Landfall Games AB is a Swedish independent

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and

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based in

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. The studio is primarily known for ''

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'', '' Content Warning'', '' Clustertruck'', '' Totally Accurate Battlegrounds'', among others. Landfall is recognised for releasing games on

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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

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. In 2015, Philip and Wilhelm co-founded a company, which was initially called "Wilnyls Game Company". 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

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, he imagined himself escaping traffic by jumping on trucks to get home faster, which led to the creation of the prototype of the game. ''Clustertruck'' was released on Steam by

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on September 27, 2016. The game was often compared to " The floor is lava". Jed Whitaker from

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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

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, where the player can create armies for a limited amount of in-game value to defeat an enemy force. The game was released on April 2, 2021, together with other game, known as Rounds. 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

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survival-horror

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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. ''Content Warning'' was a huge success for Landfall, which attracted more players to the company's other games. By now, the company has about 12 employees, the

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of the company is Wilhelm Nylund and the COO is Petter Henriksson.

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."

References

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External links

Official Landfall website
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