Double Fine has announced the release date for Kiln, their pottery party brawler, which will now arrive for Xbox Series X|S, PS5, PC and Xbox Game Pass on 23rd April.
Ahead of the full launch an Open Beta Throwdown will take place from Thursday April 9 to Saturday April 11. Strangely this will be exclusive to Steam. For a bit of Boomer rage baiting, you’ll get a participation trophy for taking part.
There’s no new trailer, so here’s the reveal from the Xbox Developer Direct stream earlier this year:
Kiln will be priced at $19.99 for the base game, or with a $29.99 Fired Up edition that includes includes the base game, premium glazes, stickers, attachments, custom pots, and bonus chips – Chips are an in-game currency for unlocks that (outside of the Fired Up edition) can only be acquired through play.
Kiln is all in on the top-down 3D brawler aesthetic for its battling, but it starts with creating a pot to anthropomorphise and then send into the fray. You create the shapes, whether with a pottery wheel or just a ball of clay, attack handles, spouts and more, and then transform that into a create or sorts, as your spirit inhabits it. There’s sponges, shapers and straight edge tools, and even just your hands. Each pot needs to be able to roll, punch, jump, and more, and the game has to dynamically figure out how the moves will work. There’s then special attacks like cups sprouting popcorn, plates flinging pies.
Quench is the main game mode, a 4v4 battle mode, where you team needs to carry water into enemy territory and quench their rival furnace. Larger pots will have greater carrying capacity, but be slower to move, so you need to balance your team in order to strive for success.
For more on how it plays, here’s Double Fine Productions’ Senior Community Manager, Rocio Salas, with a walkthrough of the Quench game mode on the map Athena’s War Room.
Source: Steam
