Publisher Wired Productions and developer ReadGraves have announced multiplayer party game Task Time for PC (Steam). A release date was not announced, but the first public playtest is currently live from now until October 1.
“I’ve seen members of the Wired team transform from quiet and measured souls, into mouth frothing and evil laughing demons while playtesting Task Time,” said Wired Productions managing director Leo Zullo in a press release. “That is enough for me to know ReadGraves have delivered a wonderfully chaotic party game.”
ReadGraves founder Sam Read-Graves added, “We made Task Time to see what happens when you throw a gameshow, a physics engine and all your friends into a blender. Task Time is competitive, chaotic and completely unpredictable, where no two rounds are ever the same. It’s an excuse to laugh at each other, celebrate small victories, glorious failures and delight in ruining your friends’ plans. The rules change every minute and the game doesn’t care about fairness; it cares about giving you stories to shout about afterwards and we’re really happy Wired Productions have joined us on our journey of chaos. To be honest, we wanted to make WarioWare but Nintendo already did that, so we made some friendslop instead.”
Here is an overview of the game, via Wired Productions:
Task Time challenges up to eight players to compete across six frantic gameshow-inspired rounds where sabotage is encouraged, friendships are tested, and laughter is guaranteed.
Developed by some of the creative talent who worked on hit party games Fall Guys and Gang Beasts, Task Time is a physics-driven party game where randomly generated tasks and player-versus-player gameplay erupt into unpredictable chaos.
Task Time is built for unpredictable fun. Across six chaotic rounds, Tasklings can complete over 500,000 random task variations. One moment you might be solving puzzles, the next you’re blasting your mates with paintballs or scrambling across a collapsing map as the floor turns to lava. Whether you win or lose, every match is a story: ridiculous comebacks, glorious failures, and moments of sabotage you’ll be laughing about long after the round ends.
Watch the announcement trailer and a set of gameplay videos below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.
Announce Trailer
Gameplay
Four-Player Split-Screen
Beach
School