Fat Goblins: rescue your princess, fatten up the enemy's, sixteen against sixteen

The rule is simple and completely absurd. Your team has to rescue its princess, held in the enemy castle. At the same time, it has to keep the enemy princess it holds prisoner well fed. And to feed her, you use meat taken from the bodies of fallen fighters, friend and foe alike.

I do not know who came up with this, but I would like to shake their hand.

Fat Goblins is an online castle battle game, sixteen against sixteen. Classes come from hats: you put on the one that throws fireballs, the one that heals, the one that shoots arrows, or you just charge in. You combine your abilities with your teammates', and matches unlock runes, new hats and new classes.

What works is the chaos. Thirty-two goblins on one map, two contradictory objectives, and moments where half the team fights on the ramparts while the other half runs to the kitchen. You laugh a lot.

The problem is the one every niche multiplayer game faces. You need people. The game launched yesterday in Early Access, after a wait for Steam approval, and 95% of the first 49 reviews are positive, but around thirty players were online as I write, for a game that puts thirty-two in each match. If the community does not grow fast, the promised giant battles will stay theoretical.

At 13.31 euros, it is a great game to fire up with a group of friends. Solo, you will have to hope you hit the right hours.

If you are putting a goblin team together, the InsertCoins Discord is a good place to recruit the other fifteen.