Deep Rock Galactic Developers Ghost Ship Publishing Reveal Brand New Co-Op Shooter ‘Guntouchables’

Dive headfirst into a brand new cataclysmic cooperative shooter and defeat a swathe of murderous mutants, coming to Steam Early Access in Spring 2025.

Watch the trailer here

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK November 21st 2024 - Today, Ghost Ship Publishing, the developer behind hit cooperative shooter Deep Rock Galactic and the publisher behind SpellRogue and Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, has just revealed its newest upcoming title, Guntouchables. Developed by Danish indie studio Game Swing, Guntouchables is an online cooperative action roguelike shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world for 1-4 players. In the apocalyptic disaster of their dreams, this group of plucky preppers will need to stick to their guns and clean up the consequences of an experiment gone wrong. Guntouchables will be launching into Early Access on Steam in Spring 2025.

Developed by Game Swing, in Guntouchables the world has been overrun by a throng of hostile, bloodthirsty mutants, and here to save the day are the only heroes the world has left: Doomsday Preppers! Ready to say “I told you so” with an armful of guns and a closet full of toilet roll, this eclectic mix of disaster-ready survivors must band together to reclaim the world and defeat the constantly mutating hordes. This team of discount earth defenders features four different survivors, including Marcus the Doctor, Karen the Scouter, Mr. Bang the Commando and Alfred the Sharpshooter. Each character has a distinctive set of skills and unique upgrades to unlock, bringing tactics, synergies and builds to master.

Guntouchables features a roguelike gameplay loop with a twist: as you evolve into a mutant slaying machine — your foes will mutate alongside you! As players fight to survive through each mission collecting upgrades and consumables for their run, they will also need to decide how their enemies grow stronger as well. With every great reward comes great risk, meaning each run will bring with it new challenges, new arsenals, and new threats.

Søren Lundgaard, CEO of Ghost Ship Publishing, says of the title reveal: "Guntouchables is a great fit for Ghost Ship Publishing, with all the addictive elements that we love about co-op shooters. We can’t wait to see the community Game Swing builds around it.”

Martin Kai Sommer, CEO of Game Swing, also comments: "Joining the Ghost Ship Publishing family is a dream come true. We’ve spent over a decade developing entertaining multiplayer games, and Guntouchables is the culmination of everything we have learnt so far.”

Guntouchables will be launching into Early Access in Spring 2025, and the Steam page can be found here. Trailers, screenshots and assets can be found here.

You can see the full announcement live on the Ghost Ship Twitch channel here which aired at 2pm CET, November 21st, 2024.

-ENDS-

About Ghost Ship Games

Ghost Ship Games is a Danish game development studio, founded in the spring of 2016 by a group of veteran game developers after years of working together. Ghost Ship Games’ motto is simple: Co-op First. The goal is to take co-operative gameplay to the next level and to make great games, focused on the core gamer. In 2021 Ghost Ship was acquired by Swedish video games holding company Embracer Group. In February 2023, Ghost Ship announced their Ghost Ship Publishing branch. For more information about Ghost Ship Games, please visit: http://www.ghostship.dk

About Game Swing

Game Swing is a small Copenhagen-based game studio of passionate indie developers. Recognized for our devotion to social gameplay, attention to detail, and originality, we seek to explore new ways to play together, while being inspired by the games we played in our youth (many years ago) that we can still pick up and play, with friends and family, today.

Our games are always looking to explore new ways to play together, while still feeling familiar. We strive to make our games easy to pick up and introduce your friends to, and deep enough that you will get challenged to the limit.

The company was founded in 2013 by a handful of irrepressible game students determined to bring their game jam prototype to market. Since then, we have brought three games into the world – Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure, OddBallers and the mobile game SpotRacers, a collaboration with Level Up Garage. GUNTOUCHABLES is our fourth original game.

For more information about Game Swing, please visit: https://www.game-swing.com/

About Embracer Group

Embracer Group is the parent company of businesses developing and publishing PC, console and mobile games for the global games market. The Group has an extensive catalogue of over 240 owned franchises, such as Saints Row, Goat Simulator, Dead Island, Darksiders, Metro, MX vs ATV, Kingdoms of Amalur, TimeSplitters, Satisfactory, Wreckfest, Insurgency, World War Z and Borderlands, amongst many others.

With its head office based in Karlstad, Sweden, Embracer Group has a global presence through its twelve operative groups: THQ Nordic, PLAION, Coffee Stain, Amplifier Game Invest, Saber Interactive, DECA Games, Gearbox Entertainment, Easybrain, Asmodee, Dark Horse, Freemode and Crystal Dynamics - Eidos. The Group has 132 internal game development studios and is engaging more than 15,731 employees and contracted employees in more than 40 countries.

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