- Fangtopia emerges from its crypt on October 26th! - 2 September 2026
Come one, come all, and feast your eyes This spine-chilling trailer hides a thrilling surprise A game so delightful yet spooky, the perfect mix Fangtopia is coming October 26 It's nearly time to build your own monsterrific kingdom! Fangtopia is coming to PC, PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 on October 26th.We're so excited to share Fangtopia with all of you. It's come a long way from the bones of an idea into a fully formed creation, and we think it's going to be the perfect game to cozy up with during spooky season and beyond. What can you expect at launch? Fangtopia is a world filled with merry monsters and goofy ghouls, crafted by your own hands. You'll put it together piece by piece, placing tiles onto a hex grid that surrounds a creepy castle of your choice. There are no time limits, only tile limits, so you can carefully consider each placement and enjoy forming the world at your own pac…
- Fangtopia Officially Selected as part of Tiny Teams - 6 August 2026
🧛 Greetings Fangtopians, From 6th-13th August you’ll find Fangtopia in Tiny Teams - the world’s greatest Steam Festival celebrating small studios making big games. Hosted by Yogscast Games, the Tiny Teams event aims to shine a spotlight on the best indie games made by solo developers and small teams. This week-long celebration takes place on Steam, Twitch and YouTube, where the folks over at Yogscast will be checking out some of the participating titles, including our very own cosy spooky worldbuilder. We can’t thank them enough for the opportunity to take part in the event and we hope they thoroughly enjoy their first taste of Fangtopia. Join our closed playtest We’ll be running a closed playtest from 13th -26th August. Whether you’d like to experience the relaxing pace of Fangtopia or you're looking to secure a top spot on the leaderboards – register your interest now.
- Playtest applications re-open 🔓 - 3 August 2026
🧛 Greetings Fangtopians! If you missed out on our first playtest, we’re re-opening the crypt doors once more. You can register your interest via this form to join our closed playtest program: Fangtopia Playtest Application Form. Whether you just want to join us to experience the relaxing pace of Fangtopia, or if your competitive streak is yearning for a new challenge – apply for our playtest now. Here's what our current playtesters are saying about Fangtopia:"The game felt very cozy and comforting. I always enjoyed and looked forward to playing the game." "This game makes me feel like I'm playing something familiar from my childhood. It's spooky but not scary. It reminds me of Goosebumps TV show." "I felt extremely relaxed as I was able to just play at my own pace without being rushed."Early kingdom builders who joined our last playtest have already started building their worlds, climb…
- Apply to become a Fangtopia playtester! - 8 July 2026
🧛 Greetings my dearest Fangtopians! The cobwebs have been cleared and I’ve emerged from my crypt to bring you the most spooktacular news about Fangtopia! For those of you eager to start building your perfect pumpkin-filled kingdoms, we’re opening playtest applications for our first closed PC alpha playtest. Register your interest here for a chance to be invited to join the playtest*, where you’ll receive the latest Steam build of Fangtopia to test and give feedback on, as well as a link to our private playtester Discord server where you'll be able to talk to us ghosts and ghouls directly. 👻 We have limited spots available, so make sure to get your applications in quickly before the playtest begins on July 14th. Successful playtesters will receive exclusive rewards as thanks for their participation, including a full game key at launch, their name in the credits, and the chance to see r…
- Fangtopia takes part in Guildford Games Festival 16-23 Feb - 16 February 2026
From now until 18:00 GMT on 23rd February, Fangtopia will be featured alongside other Guildford-made games in the Guildford Games Festival on Steam. You can find all the games featured here. https://store.steampowered.com/sale/GuildfordGamesFestival2026Guildford has a rich gaming heritage and the festival, hosted by Fireblade Software, highlights games that are developed or co-developed in this town in Surrey, UK. To find out more about the Guildford Games Festival, visit the website here. We’re looking forward to sharing more news with you on the development of Fangtopia. Look out for updates right here!
- Wishing You a Fang-tastic Festive Season. - 19 December 2025
As we prepare to wind down for the holiday season and sink our fangs into all manner of festive food and treats, we just want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who has played our demo and wishlisted Fangtopia this year, perhaps discovering it during this year’s Cozy Quest event. Needless to say, we can’t wait to release Fangtopia in 2026. Here’s a sneak peek of a couple of extra landmarks we'll be adding at launch. Thank you also to Rock Paper Shotgun for this wonderful write up of the demo: Fangtopia is a scarily delightful puzzle city-builder that I could probably sink my fangs into for a few hours | Rock Paper Shotgun Plus, if you missed it, here’s the demo playthrough that was shown during Cozy Quest, featuring Dan, Senior Game Designer at Absolutely Games, and Vicki, Senior Community Manager at Secret Mode, where they discuss some of the inspirations behind the landmarks as well…
- Fangtopia is a scarily delightful puzzle city-builder that I could probably sink my fangs into for a few hours - 19 November 2025
A bit of creepy crawly, low-key city building? Ah, go on then. October and Halloween might be behind us, but Fangtopia is a puzzle game stroke city builder that still feels appropriate for late autumn. Having had a go with its demo, it's deceptively simple, in fact it felt so simple I wasn't entirely sure if I was doing anything at all. But when it clicked, all the pieces fell into place resulting in a pleasantly chill time. Read more
- Fangtopia Expands its Kingdom - Secret Mode Joining as New Publisher! - 17 November 2025
Here’s an update you can really sink your teeth into! Announced during Cozy Quest 2025, Fangtopia, our upcoming builder/puzzler will be emerging from its cozy crypt on PC in 2026 with a helping claw from publisher Secret Mode. Fangtopia is the second game from Absolutely Games, developer of Classified: France ‘44. The studio was co-founded by industry veterans James Brooksby and Adrian Hawkins and - since its founding in 2019 - has built a passionate and talented team. “The team at Absolutely Games have loved making Fangtopia thus far, and we're really happy that the demo had many of our players - including our friends and family - asking for more,” says James Brooksby, CEO of Absolutely Games. “Now with Secret Mode becoming our publisher, we can grant that wish and get cracking on making Fangtopia even more spooktacular!” Secret Mode is the independent publisher behind cosy titles such…
- Fangtopia to appear in Cozy Quest - 12 November 2025
Hi everyone! Fangtopia will be appearing in Cozy Quest 2025, hosted by Secret Mode. We're thrilled to confirm there will be a big announcement during the event! Cozy Quest runs 17th-20th November and the opening showcase will take place on 17th November at 6pm GMT on YouTube and Steam.This link will take you to the event page when it goes live: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/CozyQuest2025 See you then, and as always - stay spooky!
- New & Improved Demo! - 22 October 2024
Hi everyone! We’re very pleased to announce that a new demo is available now for Fangtopia! We will also be participating in the Steam Scream Fest starting October 28th. Here’s a rundown of some of the changes you can expect to see in the new demo… New-style Monster Tiles Monster tiles have been revamped in a couple of key ways. Each monster type now has its own distinct pattern that can be previewed before placing them. Not only does this make it clearer what will happen when placing monster tiles, it enhances what they bring to the tile-laying puzzle. Monsters now also animate more while on their group of tiles, helping bring your spooky worlds to life. Ghost Trains You’ll now be able to create spectral rail networks to connect your world! We spoke about ghost trains in a previous devlog, and since then have made some changes to how they work. We found having fixed directions for trac…
- Fangtopia is coming to Steam Deck - 10 October 2024
Hi everyone, Today I'm happy to announce that our team has been hard at work making Fangtopia playable on the Steam Deck! Steam Deck support will go live when we update the game's demo in the coming weeks. When it does come out we'd love to hear your feedback about how the game plays on your Deck. Thanks, Fynn
- New Landmarks & Wholesome Games Celebration - 16 August 2024
Hi everyone! We’re excited to announce that we’re part of the Wholesome Games celebration, which marks the Steam debut of the Fangtopia demo! If you’re playing Fangtopia for the first time because of the event: welcome! We’d love to hear your feedback and ideas! As part of the Steam demo release, we’d like to share a sneak-peek of some new landmarks that will be available in the full release of Fangtopia. Take a look and let us know what you think… Exotic Arboretum: An elegant greenhouse for prized supernatural plants! Giant Beanstalk: A towering plant that stretches into the clouds! Stack O’Lantern: A meeting spot surrounding a totem tower of carved wooden pumpkins! Which is your favourite? That’s all for now… stay spooky!
- Feature Preview: Ghost Trains - 25 July 2024
Today we’re excited to share a feature you can expect to see in the full release of Fangtopia… Ghost Trains! These spectral locomotives will travel across your world and add a new dimension to the core puzzle gameplay of Fangtopia. To add a ghost train to your world, you’ll be placing railway tiles, each with their own shape. Carefully rotate these tiles to form one continuous route. The longer your route, the more points you will score! In addition to railway tracks, you’ll be able to place special station and mountain tunnel tiles. Station tiles allow you to bridge the gap between two railway pieces that might not otherwise fit together. Mountain tunnel tiles allow you to extend your rail networks through mountain ranges and go for even higher scores. And finally, a big thank you to everyone who has checked out our demo so far! You can play it here if you haven't given it a go yet: ht…
- Fangtopia Announced! - 19 July 2024
Hi everyone! With the announcement of Fangtopia today, we wanted to write a small devlog introducing the game and the team behind it. If you’d like to play a demo of the game head over to our Itch page! Who are Absolutely Games? We’re an independent team based in Guildford UK. We’re passionate about strategy and tactics games of all varieties, and we released our first game earlier this year: Classified: France ‘44. What is Fangtopia? Fangtopia is a relaxing building game inspired by titles like Dorfromantik. As a loyal servant of Viktor the Pumpkin King, you’ll be expanding his spooky kingdom one tile at a time, creating a world suitable for your not-so-scary monsters. Why are you making it? We started thinking about Fangtopia as our dev time on Classified was coming to an end. We loved playing Dorfromantik and games similar to it, but found that the aesthetics of these games tended to…
