Kick Bastards — Something Something Games

Kick
Bastards

Factsheet

Developer:
Something Something Games
Based in Edinburgh, UK

Release date:
Coming 2024

Platforms:
Steam

Website:
https://www.ssgames.co.uk/games/kick-bastards

Regular Price:
USD: TBA
GBP: TBA

Description

Kick Bastards is a fast paced parkour game with a deep movement system! Kick your way through exciting and varied levels where you must find your own route to overcome challenges and get a sick time.

Long Description

You messed up. Now you are in Hell and you ain’t too happy about it. Use all your parkour skills to escape Hell and the Devil as he chases you across different dimensions.

Kick Bastards is a parkour game with a heavy focus on varied and expressive movement mechanics. You will be pushed to master the deep movement systems to overcome varied challenges.

Channel your inner speedrunner as you kick your way through everything at crazy speeds. Challenge yourself and fight for the top spot.

Features

Deep parkour movement system. Kick Bastards combines real world parkour moves with fantastical elements that you can combine and combo to create exciting lines.
High speed gameplay. There is NO CAP on your speed so you can build up crazy speed by comboing your moves together.
Ultimate kicking simulation!! That’s right you kick stuff in the game called Kick Bastards. In fact you will kick a lot of stuff, so much stuff. All your kicking fantasies will be satisfied.
Find your line! Every level is built so that you can find loads of different lines through them, including ones we don’t even know about!
Varied and beautiful stages. We put a lot of love and hard work into making the levels both exciting to play and great to look at!

History

The Starting Point

Kick Bastards started as a prototype of a game based around a grappling hook where we included the kick based on some inspiration from Dark Messiah.

Reddit Post of the Prototype

We quickly realised that the kick was the most fun part of the game so leaned heavily into the kick.

Arena Combat

Following the realisation that the kick was the most fun part we decided upon the name "Kick Bastards" and pivoted to focus on the kick in development. We spent several months on this version of the game but it didn't quite work. At this point we decided to stop working on Kick Bastards and move onto other projects.

Reddit Post of Arena Combat

The revival

After several months working on other projects. We had some new ideas for Kick Bastards namely making it into more of a speed running style game. After creating a new prototype we realised this was how Kick Bastards was always meant to be. After this switch everything fell into place with the new art style, features, etc. Now we are just working on getting the game finished and ready for release.