Zombies Take Over the Golf Course with Waky Co-op Fun!

June 25, 2026 | Independent studio MapleTaco today launched Left Fore Dead: Zombie Battle Golf, out now on Steam. Grab up to three friends, line up your shot and try to finish a round across outrageous courses while zombies, bad decisions and your friends ruin everything.

Left Fore Dead: Zombie Battle Golf is an online and local co-op party game for 1 to 4 players, built on a simple collision of two genres: the precision of arcade golf and the panic of zombie survival. Players line up and power their shots to work their way toward the end of each course, using weapons and the environment to fight off the undead along the way. A clean shot can just as easily draw a horde out of the fog, and with friendly fire always on, your teammate is as likely to knock you off course as cover your back. Because the chaos comes from how the golf, the zombies and the players collide rather than from scripted gags, no two rounds fall apart the same way.

Rounds run a fast 5–15 minutes and are built around emergent comedy: attracting and dodging zombies, navigating awkward course geometry, choosing safe play versus going for it and deciding whether to help your teammates or quietly ruin their round. Left Fore Dead grew out of another golf project at MapleTaco, when the team got inspired to combine two things that don’t belong together, golfing and brawling and kept asking “what if you could hit zombies?”, then “what if you could hit other players too?”

“We wanted it to feel chaotic, but still readable, the kind of chaos where players understand what happened, laugh about it and immediately want to try something worse on their friends. Once we started asking ‘what if you could hit other players too?’, the game stopped being about surviving a horde and became a playground where friends create their own memorable disasters.”

— Chris from MapleTaco development team

 

Key Features

• Online and local co-op for up to 4 players
• A unique blend of arcade golf and zombie survival
• Three distinct courses: a golf course that stops being one, a ruined city and a cramped subway
• Zombies that react to your shots, turning every swing into a risk/reward decision
• Sabotage and assisting your friends and teammates are as dangerous as the undead
• Fast 5–15 minute rounds with quick restarts and emergent, never-the-same chaos
• Escape the deadly fog using weapons and environmental mechanics

Availability

Left Fore Dead: Zombie Battle Golf is available now on Steam for PC.

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4626000/Left_Fore_Dead_Zombie_Battle_Golf

About MapleTaco

MapleTaco is a small independent studio focused on building fast, chaotic multiplayer games that are easy to pick up and best enjoyed with friends. Left Fore Dead: Zombie Battle Golf reflects the studio's approach: take a familiar genre, push it somewhere unexpected and let players make their own fun.

Article by: Susan N.

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Frantic Platform Brawler from Efecto Studios Reveals Free Playtest until June 14th!

Bogotá (Colombia) June 4, 2026 | Veteran Colombian independent studio Efecto Studios is proud to reveal their new game Bunraku a frantic platform brawler inspired by the art of Japanese puppetry in development for Steam, Nintendo Switch 2 and PS5. The game has just opened a free playtest on Steam until June 14. Combat demands mastery of the slashing dash, precision parries, and powerful ninjutsus, integrating the action with a performance in front of a live audience that reacts dynamically to every impact. Bunraku allows for intense ninja battles of up to 8 players, (online or local) jumping into the action in shifting PvP arenas where every combat becomes a staging.

The curtain rises, the lights shine bright ...

... and the performance begins!

In this magical Japanese puppet theater, the spirits of legendary warriors come back to life to recreate ancient battles in a show full of ninja action and tactical combat movements. The audience vibrates with every attack and cheers with every parry while ninja attacks fly across the stage.

Are you ready to take your place in this grand performance? Each act is a high-precision competition where only the most talented will reach glory under the spotlights.

To become the grand champion of the ninja puppets, you must master Ninjutsu: the art of moving, attacking, and countering with incredible speed and precision.

• Use your Dash to move swiftly across the stage and strike down your opponents in a single hit.
• The Parry blocks and stuns enemies who dash at you and can even deflect items back at the caster.
• Find Scrolls on the stage to invoke powerful and varied Jutsu that can turn the tide in your favor.

About Efecto Studios

Efecto Studios is a game development team with over 24 years of experience in the industry. During this time, we have worked on a wide variety of interactive projects, co-developing titles such as Ark: Survival Evolved, Lords of the Fallen, Palia, Battlefield Mobile, Atlas, and Dark & Light.

By accurately assessing our own limitations, we ensure that our goals remain realistic and achievable. To accomplish this, we bring the necessary technical and creative expertise to cover all disciplines of development, from conceptualization and design to programming and final art production, adapting ourselves to bring ideas to life across all types of genres and platforms.

Although our primary focus is outsourcing, we dedicate a space for 100% in-house projects. These productions move away from massive global blockbusters to focus on more contained experiences, developed under an indie philosophy driven by our team's vocation and dedication.

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Cowcat Games Releases Local Co-Op Mode for Brok the InvestiGator!

November 22nd, 2023 - Saint Etienne, France
 

Embark on this Gatorific adventure with your friends!

French developer and publisher COWCAT is excited to unveil the latest update for its acclaimed adventure/beat'em up hybrid, BROK the InvestiGator. Now featuring a local co-op mode, this update is available across all platforms (PC, PS4™, PS5™, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch™).

Gather up to 4 players to experience the entire adventure together, marking a pioneering "Point & Click" style adventure game with multiplayer capabilities!

Co-op players can:

• Engage in fights

• Earn experience and level up

• Investigate surroundings

• Collect hidden "shadow ads"

• Purchase food and hints

• Express reactions with sounds and emojis

• Access 6 playable characters

• Online co-op supported via Steam Remote Play Together and PlayStation Share Play (requiring only one game copy)
   

Additionally, a physical release is now available for pre-order on the Red Art Games website. This limited run edition, accessible for PS4™, PS5™, and Nintendo Switch™, includes exclusive extras like an artbook, sleeves, poster, and reversible cover art.

The physical version will comprise the co-op update along with existing features, including comprehensive accessibility for blind players. Its release is scheduled for Q2 2024.
 

With an overwhelmingly positive 98% rating on Steam from over 500 reviews, 4.7/5 on GOG, and 4.9/5 on Xbox, players have embraced this innovative fusion of classic adventure and beat 'em up genres. BROK the InvestiGator boasts professional voice acting by Bryan Olson (Max from Streets of Rage 4) and Michael Kovach (The Amazing Digital Circus, Hazbin Hotel, Lackadaisy), featuring more than 23,000 lines.

Spanning 15 to 20 hours in its initial playthrough, this action-packed journey is filled with mystery, puzzles, and replayability via numerous choices and multiple endings. 

Store pages: https://linktr.ee/cowcatgames

Inspired by 80s/early 90s cartoons with a darker twist, BROK the InvestiGator immerses players in a dystopian universe where animals have replaced mankind. In this innovative adventure, your decisions significantly impact outcomes—will you use your brain... or your brawn?

What kind of detective will you become?

About COWCAT

COWCAT is a French indie game company created in 2016 and run by Fabrice Breton, solo developer of adventure games Demetrios and BROK the InvestiGator on PC, consoles, and mobile. The company has also ported and published the trilogy of Diabolical Mind games (Xenon Valkyrie+, Riddled Corpses EX, and Demon's Tier+) on consoles.

Official site / Press Kit : https://www.brokgame.com

Email : contact@cowcatgames.com

Twitter : https://twitter.com/COWCATGames

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The Unintended Consequences of Curiosity Available on Steam!

HELSINKI - MARCH 22, 2019 - The Unintended Consequences of Curiosity hits Steam today.

Aikio wanted to find a game that he could play with his spouse. So he made this. It’s a very simple adventure that can be played alone or with friends. It supports up to four players on a single screen. Price of the game is $7.99 but is now available with a small release discount.

The Unintended Consequences of Curiosity happens when some small town children accidentally break a magical snow globe that was used to keep the winter away. Their hometown becomes fully frozen, and they must now find a solution to bring back their beloved village.

Unintended can be played alone, or with up to four people. The adventure takes the players through various environments and situations that mostly involve environmental puzzles and clever usage of magical items obtainable along the way.

The Unintended Consequences of Curiosity retails at $7.99 and can be found on Steam.

Game features:

• A vast single player adventure
• Up to four players with single-screen local co-op
• Tons of charming puzzles with interesting mechanics
• Original soundtrack with over 20 compositions
• Highly tailored boss encounters

More information about the game can be found on the Official Site.

About Aikio

Aikio is an independent solo game developer from Helsinki, Finland. He decided to create The Unintended consequences of curiosity after trying to find a good game to play with his spouse from STEAM, but could not find anything that is simple enough for non-gamer and still interesting enough for a more experienced gamer. So why not create one by himself.

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