Hong Kong, February 13, 2025 - After 2 years in development, and a successful Kickstarter campaign, independent Hong Kong developer Springfox Games is proud to announce the release of the family-friendly roguelike deck builder Nif Nif on Steam this April 1st at a price of 19.99 EUR|USD. Join Nif Nif and Cat on their adventures to save their friends from the evil Goo that is contaminating the forest. Clean up the mess through card battles to advance on the procedural maps and defeat the final bosses!
Starting today and until March 10th, Nif Nif will have a new demo available with new final bosses, unlockable card variants, new hats, a new playable character, mini-games, and by the time Steam Next Fest starts, the Nif Nif demo will offer support for 11 languages, same as for the full game: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Chinese (simplified and traditional).
Main Features
- Procedurally generated maps.
- Two playable characters (Nif Nif and Cat) with different decks.
- Gardening and cooking mini game.
- 7 different hats to change abilities.
- Progress through levels, unlockables and achievements.
What makes Nif Nif special?
Neuro Divergent - Friendly
Inspired by the game director’s autistic son. Nif Nif aims to provide a welcoming and supportive gaming experience where kids can explore, learn, and grow in anon-violent environment that encourages positive values like friendship and caring for nature.
“Slay the Spire meets Loddlenaut, wrapped up in a positive and actionable environmental message.”
For everyone
Approachable and designed for a general audience: from fans of deck-builders or cozy games, to kids (it helps them practice mental math!) or even people with no experience in video games. Accessible and totally non-violent. Easy to pick up for beginners, but strategic for those who want a challenge!
“The idea of cleaning as a core mechanic came from a desire to create a non-violent, family-friendly game. My son’s hypersensitivity to violence influenced this decision. I chose a piglet for Nif Nif because of the positive symbolism associated with pigs in Chinese culture. The character “family” features a pig under a roof, representing harmony and togetherness.” - Masha Mallet, Game Director.
Build the best deck
Choose your cards with special abilities as you progress through the encounters to be best prepared to face the final bosses that await you at the end of the forest. Decide what to bring on each adventure to keep things fresh, and choose to play between two different characters—each with a unique card set.
Prepare for the adventure cooking your own soups
You can collect seeds, plant them and cook your own power-up potions in the form of delicious hot soups that will help you on your journey. Deciding which ones to take each time can be the difference between a win or a loss!
Wholesome and chill
Nif Nif is a comfortable and cozy experience set in a whimsical and colorful world full of friendly and quirky characters that our little piglet and his grumpy cat companion will meet along the way on lovely encounters full of easter-eggs for us to enjoy.
ABOUT SPRINGFOX GAMES
Springfox Games is a very diverse development team with people from all over the world working together to create beautiful and sweet strategy games for everyone. We want to change the situation of children's games so that they are truly suitable for young ages and teach values, deep thinking and knowledge in a fun way.
Our pillars? Accessibility and non-violence, bring strategy to a wide public and diversity as a key to help us grow.
ABOUT MASHA MALLET
Masha Mallet, the game director of Nif Nif, will be attending GDC this year, and available for interviews, if you are interested in meeting her there, please answer this email. She started playing games at the age of 5 and helped her father, who was a game journalist, to test games he was reviewing for magazines. She has played all sorts of indie games throughout the years and played Hearthstone competitively, streaming it all through Twitch.
Professionally, she worked 12 years in the education field, created a language teaching startup, had a family with 2 beautiful kids, and was appointed Managing Director in a subsidiary of the Louis Vuitton group that she developed from the ground up in Hong Kong. Later on, her passion for games brought her to study game production in order to open a gaming studio to share her passion for strategy games with the new generation.
For more information and updates visit https://springfox.games/
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