Double Fine is Bringing Ooblets to Xbox One and Windows 10 Next Year

Double Fine has announced it will be publishing Rebecca Cordingley's Ooblets on Xbox One and Windows 10 next year as a Play Anywhere title. Ooblets is "a mash-up of Stardew Valley, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, and Factorio, with the 'adorable' knob cranked all the way up to 11." Cordingley left a steady development job after she saw the success of Stardew Valley (also a one-person development project) and set to work on Ooblets, catching Double Fine's eye in the process, for obvious reasons. A gorgeous art style and fantastic premise were enough to convince the publisher to bring her on board. Cordingley is also excited to be working with Microsoft, saying "Xbox is building up a really impressive indie lineup and we’re super thrilled to be invited to be a part of it."

There is not much in the way of gameplay available thus far [update: they released a trailer after I originally published this! find it below], though there are a number of Devlogs available at the game's website with plenty of gifs showing snippets of the game's character creation, inventory management, combat, level up animations, and more. The gameplay will be comprised of managing a farm, exploring "weird places," collecting ooblets, battling other ooblet trainers, and even running a shop. Battles are "turn-based with a lot of team mechanics. Are you going to stack your team with quick attack ooblets or balance things out with healer and defense type ooblets? Who knows!?"

Ooblets will be aiming for release in the first half of 2018.