Here’s a new trailer to mark the release date announcement: Ooblets mixes together Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley-style farming and Pokémon-style creature-collecting, with several wonderful twists. First of all, those two halves are linked: the Ooblets you befriend are grown in your garden, not (or not only) discovered in the wild. Second of all, the lovable creatures who follow you around don’t fight with bites and elemental magic, but via card-based breakdancing. In her early access look at the game, Sin Vega felt that merging farming and creature-collecting dodged the worst habits of both genres, while not being as sickly-sweet as its art style and cheery dialogue sometimes implies. It sounds splendid, then, just as it looked all those years ago. Ooblets will leave early access on September 1st, and for now remains exclusive to Epic’s game store, the Epic Game Store. I hope Ooblets’ release means its developers resume work on IT Simulator.
