Ooblets

Ooblets is an indie game about farming, creature collection, and friendship!

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As a Halloween surprise, we've launched the 1.4 Oobmobiles Update today on all platforms! 🎃🚘

Now your ooblets can drive around in little vehicles!! 🏎️🧹🛸🛻

👻 There are even some special 𝙃𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙤𝙗𝙢𝙤𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙨 available until our Halloween Event ends in mid-November!

You can read our most recent newsletter here for more details about this recent update, including some important notes for Switch players.

Have fun out there!

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October 5th is the BIG DAY!!! We'll be launching on Steam with a big 40% off discount for the whole week of launch! This is just in time for our Halloween event which will run through mid-November! Thank you for all of your shares, wishlists, feedback, and chatter in our Discord ❤️ All of your support keeps us going!

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👁️ Our monstrously-gargantuan Ooblets Halloween Event is launching on Oct 1st!! 🎃 🎧 Turn up the volume to hear a boo-tiful track composed by Hassan DuRant! We went all-out to make this Halloween Event our biggest event ever. There’s so much new stuff! We’re so excited for everyone to play, including new players from our Steam launch on OCT 5TH!! 🎉 💌 Be sure you’ve joined our email club to hear important news and info!

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🎉 Release date announcement 🎉

Ooblets is coming to Steam on ✨ October 5th!! ✨ 💫 You can wishlist us on Steam now to be notified as soon as the game goes live. Thank you for all of your love and support! ❤️

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Soooo we launched some plushies with Fangamer! 🥹 Shrumbo is available and ready to ship now! You can sign up to receive an e-mail when Clomper & Glanter are ready to go as well. Find the whole crew here.

Thanks so much for supporting our lil guys ❤️❤️

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we're coming straight to you with this breaking new evidence of UFOs

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stay tuned for more incredible development updates like this

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We’re VERY excited to reveal that we’ve been working with Fangamer to design a Shrumbo plush!🍄🧸 Sign up here to be the first to get notified when they're ready for sale. Please be sure to share with anyone who may be interested & sign up so we know how many people want one! ❤️

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Spotted something unusual in the wildlands today… any ideas what this could be? 🤔

🔎 We’ll post our investigative work for our email club members: http://newsletter.ooblets.com 💌

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Cozy Spotlight: Ooblets

Have you ever gotten so addicted to a game that you play it, and only it, for months on end, until finally one day your partner guilts you into popping a different game card into your Switch and you become obsessed with that one instead? Well, @ooblets is that game for me! This cute little creature collection game has a lot more to offer than your typical farming sim, and with a little nudge from my significant other, it was just what I needed to break my Animal Crossing addiction. It's kind of like a cross between Pokémon and Stardew Valley, with elements of both expressed in an original way and charming art style. Throw in some dancing and a whole wacky world of story on top, and you've got yourself an Ooblets addiction. Well, I do, at least.

Ooblets is developed and published by Glumberland, and even though I may loathe the desire to compare every game with creature collection to Pokémon, and every game with farming simulation to Stardew Valley, Ooblets really is best described by compacting those two into one super cute, groovy game. That doesn't mean that it's not unique though. I mean, hello, it's "groovy."

Gettin' the Ooblets So I've already mentioned that Ooblets is a creature collection game (like, several times), but what you may not know is the groovy way you actually go about collecting those creatures. If you haven't figured it out by now, it's dancing. Near the beginning of the game you join one of the four ooblet clubs presented to you, and then you get an ooblet associated with that club. You use that ooblet to dance battle other ooblets via a turn-based card battler, shown above. The battles are pretty easy, which just makes the game more accessible to younger audiences, and they're pretty straight-forward. You use your fresh "beats" to play dance cards and earn points. If you get enough points before the AI does, you win! Then the ooblet is gently forced, or um... encouraged, to toot out a seed (yes, that's right, TOOT), and after that it's all yours. When you plant the seed, an ooblet will grow. Bet ya don't see that in any Pokémon games, do ya?

Farmin' It Up Now that you've got your ooblet seed, it's time to plant it on your farm. Of course you have a farm. It's a farming sim. You also received a dilapidated house, access to a fishing area (known as "sea-dangling"), and for some reason you have the responsiblitiy to help the mayor save this place known as Badgetown. Pretty standard farming simulator tropes. It's ok though, because you've got your little ooblet buddies to help you through it. You spend your days dancing in battles, planting ooblet seeds and other crops, cooking those crops into fancy dishes, selling those dishes for "gummies" (in-game money), fixing up and decorating your house, buying outfits or changing your hair style, earning "friendship stickers" with the locals, traveling to other places via hot air balloon, and basically doing whatever the game tells you to do, but at your own pace. Which even though there is an overall story taking place (that I won't spoil for you) there is no rush to finish it. You can spend as much time as you want collecting ooblets until you catch 'em all, Ash style, if that's what you want.

Catchin' Them All There are many, many, MANY different types of ooblets, some of which you need to use special in-game "wishies" to unlock, which are basically like premium currency or reward points. Each ooblet comes in three versions (common, uncommon, and gleamy) and certain ooblets are only available in certain places. For example, if you want a Pantsabear ooblet then you have to travel via hot air balloon to Pantsabear Hill, while Gleamy ooblets are more likely to be found during a rainbow rainstorm. Yes, the rain is colorful sometimes. Getting all of the ooblets will take time. To travel to different areas, you have to unlock them by playing through the story more, which is presented to you through a series of naturally occuring dialogue and quests. On top of that, each ooblet also has its own set of cards available to use in your dance battle deck, but it's not quite a deck builder. You just have to decide which ooblets follow you around and get to dance with you. Only a total of eight ooblets can follow you, so deciding can sometimes be strategic (and also very, very HARD), but you can have more ooblets at home on your farm, or you can send them to the wildlands to be free. Sort of. As you can see, the game has a lot to offer. I really enjoy the pace of it. There is always something to do, but you never feel rushed to do it. There are day/night cycles, as well as weather to consider, but for the most part you don't have to worry too much about the consequences of your actions or the timeliness of them. Which is good for a former Animal Crossing addict, because you don't have to be quick about doing anything in that game. Why do you think I'm still playing it after all this time? Well, you know, when I'm not playing Ooblets. Ooblets is currenlty available on PC (Epic Games Store), Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and the Nintendo Switch. If you prefer Steam as your PC platform, they do have a Steam page. However, it is not yet available for purchase on Steam, but you can wishlist it now. And you should. I did. Even though I already own two other copies. It's just that good. - SMP 💗

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Ooblets is participating in the April Indie Sale for Nintendo Switch through 4/26! You can currently grab the game for only $19.99 (USD) on the eShop.

..which means even more people have a chance at petting this little guy 🥔🐇

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The Ooblets Spring Update is live from now through the end of May!

Collect petals🍃, craft Glimmyglobes, unlock new stuff, and maybe even make a new ooblet pal!🥔🐇 Ooblets is also currently on sale in the Nintendo eShop for 33% off ($19.99 USD) until 4/26. If you've been waiting to pick it up, now's a great time!

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the A/C is on, he has water and is listening to his favorite music

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The Ooblets 1.1 Localization Update is live!! (on Switch & PC)

This adds French, Spanish (LatAm), and German translations to all the game text and dialogue.

If you don't speak any of those languages this update might not sound that exciting, but it was a huge project for us and we're super excited to get more folks playing. From early reports it sounds like the translators did a great job of capturing the spirit of the game, so shout out to the team at Local Heroes!

If you have any feedback about the translations, please feel free to share it with us in our Discord! 🌸🌺🌷

Next, we're going back to focusing on our Springtime Event Update and will hopefully have a more official public roadmap to share with everyone soon.

Thank you again for all of your support, kindness, and patience. ❤️

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Wishing everyone a happy holiday season! 🫂

We're excited to have another little gift for you today:

❄️ Ooblets is part of the Indie Holiday Sale on the Nintendo eShop where it's 33% off! ❄️

- This sale is for all Nintendo of America, Europe, and Australian regions - For Europe and Australia, the sale ends on 12/29 for reasons!

We’re so grateful for all of you that have followed along and supported us this year!

It was a busy, exciting time with our 1.0 launch, and we can’t wait to share all the exciting stuff we have cooking up for you in 2023. 💖

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❄️ The Ooblets Wintertime Event is now live! ❄️ Collect festive bobbles in Badgetown to exchange for cozy apparel, accessories, and more - including brand new items for 2022.

⛄️ The Wintertime Event runs until December 31st so now's a great time to jump in! ⛄️

Thank you for playing and supporting our lil game. 💖

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Ooblets is out now on Nintendo Switch!

In case you didn't know, Ooblets is a game about farming, weird lil creatures, dancing, making friends, and exploring.

👗 You can dress up yourself and your followbabies, 🖌️ decorate and expand your house, 🎩 help out the mayor, and 🤝 meet lots of interesting townsfolk.

🔍 There's even a bit of a mystery that you'll need to solve to save the town...