Pig Eat Ball is one of the weirdest games I've seen for a while, releasing with Linux support this month

I've seen a lot of games in my time, yet developers somehow still find ways to surprised me. Pig Eat Ball looks totally weird, but also quite fun.

Funded on Fig back in back in April, thanks to 252 backers along with a fair bit of help from Fig directly. The developer has now announced, that the release is expected on September 27th.

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What exactly is it? Well, the developer said this:

What would happen if Pac-Man got fatter while he ate?

In Pig Eat Ball, to beat levels you must eat all the balls, but you get FATTER WHILE YOU EAT. If you get stuck, you'll have to barf to squeeze through!

It's a classically-styled action-adventure with a gameplay twist. Enjoy hours of hand-crafted, single-player action with just a hint of puzzle trickiness!

I'm quite happy to see that the levels are hand-crafted, in a time when random generation seems to be all the rage. It will also include local co-op support for up to four people. It even includes a level editor, for those of you with a creative side.

It's possible more games from the developer, Mommy's Best Games, may come to Linux. The well-known Linux game porter Ethan Lee put out a Twitter post to say "Oh dang I totally missed this announcement, buy this so he has a budget for me to work on his back catalog". Hopefully it will go well enough for that to happen!

Follow along on Steam. It's also coming to itch.io, which has a demo available.