Popular NFT collection Goblintown has revealed Really Hard Driving Game, an action driving title that will launch on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store in 2025.
Despite being a product of the Goblintown NFT collection, the game will not feature any crypto or Web3 elements, with Alex Taub, co-founder and CEO of developers Truth Arts, confirming that “the game is a straight Web2 game using our IP and world.”
Although Goblintown: Really Hard Driving Game will have no Web3 features, the game is set to be connected to Abstract Chain – the consumer-focused Ethereum Layer-2 network built by Igloo Inc., the team behind Pudgy Penguins. Taub stated that “Abstract has a big focus on streaming, and we think our game will be one of the most fun games to stream in 2025.”
What is Goblintown?
Goblintown is a 10,000-piece NFT avatar collection, minted on Ethereum.
Created in May 2022 by Truth Arts, the collection is best-known for its weird, wacky and whimsical world. Each of the 10,000 NFTs represents an unsightly NFT goblin, which speaks in near-nonsensical dialog and has a distinctive, gruesome art style.
Goblintown is perhaps best-known amongst mainstream audiences for its themed McGoblin Burger food truck that roamed NYC during NFT.NYC 2022, or for its art and imagery being heavily-featured in the cult-hit 2023 video game Only Up – made possible through Goblintown’s then CC0 license.
Today, Truth Arts describe themselves as “world-builders, here to tell stories so wild, fantastical, heart-wrenching, touching, and epically ridiculous that they can’t not be believed.” Goblintown now focus on “games, publishing, and streaming”, with Goblintown: Really Hard Driving Game set to be their first major release.
What is Goblintown: Really Hard Driving Game?
Goblintown: Really Hard Driving Game is a single-player action driving title, set to be made available on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store in 2025.
Players will get behind the wheel of the McGoblin Burger truck and navigate treacherous obstacle courses filled with “hazardous boombooms, flap-tingling jumps, and other sadistic mayhem” to make super-speedy deliveries and “become the delivery gob of legend”.
The game will have full Xbox and PlayStation controller support, with the game’s description on Steam also making reference to an ability to “slow time” if you “scream inta your mikerfone” – perhaps alluding as to one of the reasons Goblintown: Really Hard Driving Game could be “one of the most fun games to stream” this year.
According to Taub, Goblintown: Really Hard Driving Game is still a few months from release, giving the game an expected launch window of Q2 2025.
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