World of Goo Steam news

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• Review score94% positive
• Total reviews6,506
• Release dateOct 13, 2008
• Developer2D BOY
• Publisher2D BOY

Genres: Indie

Company pages: Developer: 2D BOYPublisher: 2D BOY

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World of Goo Steam news

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• World of Goo Becoming Worldlier - 17 November 2025

  The last of goo balls didn’t seem to know that the fantastic World of Goo… has just learned to speak a few new languages!World of Goo has been officially upgraded to include brand-new translations in Russian, Simplified Chinese, and — for the first time ever — Ukrainian! All thanks to the tireless (and possibly goo-covered) efforts of our excellent translation community.Translating a deeply American-centric game like World of Goo is no easy feat. How does one take all the internet puns, double-meaning jokes, and corporate-speak nonsense and have it make sense in another language? What does YAMAKO mean in Chinese? How can we know?Luckily, our friends on the World of Goo 2 Russian Translation Team have written a wonderful guest post about their process and all the work that occurred behind the scenes, which you can read about here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/22000/discussions/0/682986…

• World of Goo 2 is Out! - 25 April 2025

  It’s April 25th, 2025!!... So that means that…World of Goo 2 – the followup to the indie-hit classic World of Goo, which was released almost 17 years ago…is NOW AVAILABLE! What about Launch Discounts?! We’re currently in the middle of running a fabulous Tomorrow Corporation/2DBOY Publisher Sale until Monday, April 28th but the fun doesn’t stop there! Starting today through May 9th we’re offering a launch discount of 15% off World of Goo 2, and if you already own the award winning World of Goo… you’ll get an additional 15% off as an extra Thank You from the World of Goo 2 team!(🔥‼️) We’re also running a bundle for additional savings if you also want to buy the soundtrack! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3681380/World_of_Goo_2_Soundtrack/ Thanks to everyone for your help and support. We hope you love this game as much as we loved building it! Your Friends at Tomorrow Corporation and 2…

• The World of Goo 2 Soundtrack is Coming to Steam! - 24 April 2025

  We’ve spilled much digital ink talking about the upcoming release of the excellent World of Goo 2 (5/5 stars - would work on it again!), but very little about its excellent Soundtrack. No more! The World of Goo 2 Official Soundtrack is also coming to Steam on April 25, 2025, and can be purchased separately or as part of a bundle on launch day. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3681380/World_of_Goo_2_Soundtrack/ Tomorrow Corporation’s own Kyle Gabler worked with new member of our team Jonny Trengrove, and over 50 musicians from the World of Goo community to bring you nearly 2 hours and 47 songs of the beautiful, the haunting, the hilarious, the thrilling, World of Goo 2 Original Soundtrack. If you’re interested in giving it a listen first, give some of the tracks a gander:

• World of Goo 2 Coming to Steam on April 25, 2025! - 10 April 2025

  World of Goo 2 is coming to Steam on April 25! There will be three ridiculous new levels, designed especially for the most clever, the most hardcore, the most goo-imbued players. (Even some of the development team have been unable to complete them.) Updates will include: Three new extremely difficult challenge levels. Over 30 Extra Fabulous Achievements. A Brand New Options Menu! Never before included in a 2DBOY or Tomorrow Corporation game. A bunch of bug fixes and more. Please consider supporting our team by wishlisting World of Goo 2 today! CALLING ALL PLUSHIE FANS... We’ve teamed up once again with our friends at MakeShip to bring one of our creations from game concept to plush, cuddly reality—and we need your help! We’re just a few pledges away from taking the humble Goo Ball off the design table and into production! The pledge drive ends on Sunday, April 13th at 8:00am, so if you…

• World of Goo 2 Launching Q2 2025! - 21 March 2025

  The original World of Goo came out more than 15 years ago. The world is a little older now, and so are we. And you. You can’t stop progress! Welcome, World of Goo 2 -- releasing this Spring on Steam with: Extra Fabulous Steam Achievements Acclaimed Original Soundtrack And more! Wishlist it now! We’ve been quietly readying World of Goo 2 for new platforms in a continued effort to help World of Goo fans answer the important questions: What happens if you poke Goo with a stick? How has the world changed after all this time? What new gameplay possibilities will we discover? What wonderful new creatures, and characters, and ancient monuments will we meet? Discover realistic, flowing, viscous liquid. Route its flow like a river, convert it into Goo Balls, extinguish fires, and solve puzzles. WHAT STRANGE NEW CREATURES! Discover new species of Goo: Jelly Goo, Liquid Launchers, Growing Goo, Shr…

• World of Goo 2 drops globular trailer, soundtrack preview ahead of launch this week - 29 July 2024

  World of Goo 2 will release later this week on August 2, and to celebrate the developers have released a new trailer showing off a bit more than we saw when they revealed it last fall . One of the early great digital distribution indies—and still fun today—World of Goo has players snatch up little weird goop balls and attach them into increasingly unwieldy constructions in order to get said little goop buddies to the end of each level on their journey through an increasingly absurd and equally unwieldy plot... Read more.

• Holy balls, after 15 years they're actually making World of Goo 2 and it's coming next year - 8 December 2023

  I loved World of Goo when it came out way back in 2008, and I've always thought it was too bad they never made another one. So it was really great to hear at The Game Awards tonight that finally, they are... Read more.

• Stories Untold is the Epic Games Store's next freebie - 2 May 2019

  Wibbly-wobbly physics puzzler World of Goo is free on the Epic Games Store now, and in a couple of weeks it will be followed by spooky narrative experiment Stories Untold.  World of Goo has been around for so long now and has been part of so many sales and bundles that I can't imagine anyone not owning it for multiple devices, but maybe there are still a few of you. You can get it for free between now and May 16. It's good! I mean I don't think I have the energy to play it yet again, but if you've missed it, it's a cracking physics puzzler with loads of character. Stories Untold is a bit more exciting, though. No Code's eerie compilation is a clever, unique romp that you're absolutely better off experiencing blind. You'll get to fiddle around with archaic machines and in text adventures across four stories, always interacting with chunky bits…

• World Of Goo free on Epic Games Store right now - 2 May 2019

  I whoo, you whoo, we all whoo for World Of Goo . Following the recent update that brought a “gentle remastering” making it play nice on modern systems, 2D Boy’s modern-day classic puzzler is now free for keepsies on the Epic Games Store if you grab it within the next fortnight. That’s not a pun. While I think of World Of Goo as one of those games everyone must have played by now, given how great it is and how often it’s been mega-cheap, but… it’s ten years old so I many won’t have played it. Hey, youse, it’s real nice and it’s free right now. (more…)

• World Of Goo remastered in free update ahead of giveaway - 30 April 2019

  That wonderful World Of Goo , a modern classic of a puzzle ’em up, gets polished up for the present day in a new free update. Coming over ten years after the game’s release, the update brings support for modern widescreen resolutions, art reworked to look better at our shiny new high resolutions, less bugginess on modern operating systems, interface improvements borrowed from newer versions like the Nintendo Switch release, and other welcome tweaks. Loading it back up just now, gosh, World Of Goo really is still charming so I’m glad that returning is now less of a bother. Epic will be giving the game away free in a few days too. (more…)

• World of Goo is getting updated and going free on the Epic Store - 18 April 2019

  The next free game on the Epic Games Store, as of May 2, will be World of Goo , the bizarre, sticky, and exceptionally good structure-building puzzle game from 2008. Even better, after years of languishing in a not-quite-right state, it's been given a significant update to ensure that it runs properly on modern PCs.  "The last time we built the PC version of World of Goo was ten years ago, way back in 2009. The game ran at a 4:3 aspect ratio and at a resolution of 800x600. Most computers now can't even enter that old 800x600 mode without the screen flashing or glitching. The game would also crash your computer if you had more than one monitor hooked up," World of Goo designer, artist, and composer Kyle Gabler explained.  "So over the last few months, we've rebuilt the game for Win / Mac / Linux and it should now work nicely again on everyone's modern comput…

• World of Goo is still magnificent 10 years on - 2 January 2019

  Having long since forgotten the plot of world of goo but not its glorious, weird jelly Meccano physics, I think I was expecting this reinstall to be a mainly sensory experience. Something like Peggle—great music, appealing cartoonish aesthetic—but with a slippery puzzle element instead of pinball, and a streak of black humour involving some goo balls going through a mincer.  I had forgotten the observations about how companies use data and cookies (World of Goo operates in a GDPR-less world), about idiotic, wasteful product launches, about the value of physical beauty and so on. These observations are relatively broad-brush—corporations that put financial gain over consumer welfare, the ugly being trampled by the beautiful—but it’s a tang of playful cynicism I haven’t seen much in games recently.  That’s not to say we’re…

• World of Goo creators announce new puzzle game 7 Billion Humans - 24 January 2018

  7 Billion Humans is a people-powered programming puzzle game set in a world ruled by machines. It was announced by developer Tomorrow Corporation today as a direct follow-up to 2015's Human Resource Machine .  The announcement trailer is bleak, but the premise is interesting. Essentially, you order office workers to complete tasks by treating them as variables in a unique programming language. Tomorrow Corporation says 7 Billion Humans improves on the language used in Human Resource Machine with the addition of multi-worker execution—again, bleak.  "You'll be taught everything you need to know," the game's Steam page says, presumably trying to comfort the people who look at programming like a gazelle looks at a lioness (hello). It seems there are also more puzzles this time—over 60 in all.  Tomorrow Corporation is a small studio consisting of…

• Humble Indie Bundle returns with a "Greatest Hits" collection - 10 June 2015

  The Humble Indie Bundle is back, but this time with a greatest hits collection featuring some of the best games from past bundles. It's an amazing selection for anybody that's new to indie games, or gaming in general. For everyone else, there's a pretty good chance you already own most of what's here. As usual, the action is split into multiple categories depending on how much you're willing to pay. Whatever you pay, you'll get Super Meat Boy, World of Goo and Dustforce DX. Beat the average (currently $4.78) and you'll also get Dungeon Defenders Collection, Limbo and Braid. Finally, if you pay $1 over the average price (currently $5.78,) you'll get Risk of Rain and Antichamber. Whatever price you settle on, you'll need to pay $1 or more to get Steam keys for the bundled games. After settling on a price, you can then decide exactly where that money will go. The sliders allow you to set h…

• The 25 Best Puzzle Games Ever Made - 8 May 2015

  The world’s most accurate ranking of the 25 best puzzle games ever to reach a computer. Plucking the peak of PC puzzling, we break down what makes them so special, and put them in the correct order. Read on for more time travel, rearranged tiles, hidden objects and hexed cells than you could ever want. …

• Have You Played World Of Goo? - 22 January 2015

  It is literally impossible that World Of Goo is from SEVEN YEARS AGO. That absolutely, categorically cannot be the case. There has simply been a malfunction in chronology. We had that world exclusive review maybe three years ago at most. …

• The World of Goo Soundtrack Had No Business Being So Crazy Good - 28 June 2012

  Think about it: World of Goo . Simple game, simple premise. Move the goo, stack the goo, get to the ending point. There was some kind of narrative, but that didn't matter so much, did it? The game is good. Really good, really fun. But my favorite thing about it, hands down, is Kyle Gabler's flabbergasting soundtrack. It combines the superheroic, soaring choral melodies of Tim Burton with all kinds of various ethnic and cinematic influences to create a musical pastiche that is at once epic, driving, hilarious and surprisingly emotional. What possessed Gabler and 2D Boy to imbue their silly puzzle game with such a grand soundtrack? We may never know. We can just be glad they did. Best of all, you can download the entire thing for free at Gabler's website . He talks about the process he used to make the soundtrack: The majority of the instruments you'll hear are computer instruments, with…

• Humble Indie Bundle heads to Android - 31 January 2012

  The long-running Humble Indie Bundle initiative has finally made the leap to smartphones. The latest pack includes Android-compatible indie gems Osmos, Edge and Anomaly: Warzone Earth. What's more, you'll also get versions for Mac OSX, Windows or GNU/Linux. As is traditional, you decide how much you pay, and what proportion of your donation goes to the developers, to charity (choose Child's Play Charity or the Electronic Frontier Foundation) and to the Humble Indie Bundle organisers. If your payment is above the current average ($5.29 at the time of writing), you'll also get World of Goo thrown in. The pack has got off to a solid start, with over 24,000 sales so far and revenue of $131,000.

• World of Goo hits 1 million App Store downloads - 10 January 2012

  Acclaimed physics puzzler World of Goo has been downloaded one million times from the iOS and Mac App Store in the 13 months since launch. According to Gamasutra , 29 per cent of those sales were for iPhone or iPod Touch, while 69 per cent were for the iPad. Mac App Store downloads only contributed two per cent, though a separate Mac version has been on sale since 2008 when the game first launched on PC and WiiWare. iPhone/iPod sales made up 17 per cent of all revenue, whereas the more expensive iPad version constituted 79 per cent. The Android version, which only launched in November 2011, has racked up 70,000 sales, although a free demo has been downloaded 450,000 times. The game sold 180,000 downloads over the same period of time following the iOS launch one year previous. Life-to-date sales figures for the original PC and WiiWare versions have not been made public. Not played the 2D…

• Enough Zelda! Here Are 5 Less-Common Video Game Themes Orchestras Should Try - 1 November 2011

  From Zelda to Final Fantasy , we've seen plenty of dedicated video game orchestral concerts over the years. Only a week or so ago, there was a huge Legend of Zelda concert in Los Angeles, and next week will see the release of a collection of video game music from the London Philharmonic. I've listened to much of the Philharmonic album in advance, and I found that the tracks I enjoyed the most were the ones I'd never heard played by an orchestra. Orchestras tend to be going for a mainstream thing with these performances, so they focus on the themes we all know and love. But while I'm all for hearing the Mario "1-1" music or Cloud's Theme from Final Fantasy VII , I found that I was really digging hearing a full orchestra play the opening music from Grand Theft Auto IV , or the theme from Angry Birds . I thought it might be fun to list five pieces of music that aren't the first choices for…