Nitrome News

Twin Shot Deluxe coming to Steam, Switch & Mobile

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:35:56 GMT

The Angel Cats are BACK! Twin Shot Deluxe is a platform arcade shooter where players defend their homeland using bow and arrows. Take aim at 200+ brand new levels set across four worlds. Play solo or with a friends in local co-op (1-4 players) or competitively to see who will be crowned champion.

WHATS NEW?

20FPS The game now runs at an angelic 60FPS.
Massively improved controls that still feel like you remember, Improved air control (?), Stop on a dime(?), Coyote time (?), Variable jump (?).
Modern 16:9 ratios, that's 78% more Twin Shot.
Join friends and family in multiplayer (1-4 players) with Controller and keyboard support
A Complete graphical overhaul: All backgrounds, characters, animation and menus have been remastered!
200+ all new levels built from the ground up.
Take aim at 2 brand new formidable bosses.
New music tracks by the games original composer Dave Cowen
Prepare to hum along to the iconic earworm tracks with music now uncompressed and crystal clear.
Brand new cinematic intro and ending illustrations.
Unlock the new Atlantis theme with exciting new enemies and mechanics to enjoy across its 50 stages.
Cheats and Treats are BACK! Unlock a plethora of new character skins, abilities and modes for enhanced replay.
Introducing HATS! Battle amongst your friends or alone to see who will be crowned champion. Hats aren't just hilariously cosmetic but also come with additional buffs.
Tag mode: Dial up the competitiveness to 11 in tag mode. Tag other players with and arrow and claim the prized hat for yourself. A real game of Angel Cat and Mouse.

The good ol' days of carefree gaming are back. Twin Shot Deluxe is our first release in the Nitrome Classics series. We are bringing back beloved games of old re-equipped for modern gamers.

Look out for more Nitrome Classics games in the near future.

Re-live your childhood and complete your collection!

Coming to the Nintendo Switch/ Steam/ mobile. Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3618520/Twin_Shot_Deluxe/

Mouse Work coming to Switch 2!

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:27:45 GMT

An Upcoming Party Game for 1- 4 Players Using Switch 2 Mouse Controls!

Quit mousin' around and get yourselves down to the job centre! Team up with friends or go it alone, facing a range of mini game challenges using the Switch 2 mouse controls. Each job features a unique and inventive mechanic making full use of the Joy-Con 2’s brand new cursor functionality.

In Mouse Work players take on the role of adorable mice that are just trying to earn some Cheddar. Fortunately for them, the local job centre has a wealth of offerings available, each testing our mice with new and innovative cursor-based gameplay.

As a Climbing Instructor, you'll be dragging the hands of your incompetent students to the next safe hold, or as an Artist, you'll paint pictures correctly before the time runs out. Use the cursor to play keepy-uppy with all manner of spherical objects in 'Gym Teacher', or keep it old school in 'Spy', a retro style mouse-avoider. These are just a few of the jobs you'll be taking on in Mouse Work.

As you play through the jobs available, new ones will unlock, and old jobs will resurface with surprising twists.

Whilst the whole game can be played solo, all the jobs are dialled up a notch when playing in local 2-4 player couch co-op mode. Multiplayer brings the party with a range of new challenges added to every job.

You may be getting in each other's way whilst tied together, or forced to have your climbers hold hands to bridge a large gap. Perhaps you'll be required to work together to lift and drag objects that would be too heavy for a single mouse. Asymmetric abilities take this further in some games too, with each player working with entirely different mechanics!

All your hard work won't go unrewarded however. Successfully completing jobs earns you Cheddar, and you can blow it all customising your mice with cute cosmetics: hats, bow ties, trainers… the lot! Mouse Work will release hot on the tail of the Nintendo Switch 2.

Footage shown was captured on PC and is only an approximation of what we expect on final hardware.

Shovel Knight Dig

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 04:10:39 BST

Hi Nitromians,

After an epic 4 year development the wait is finally over!

We are thrilled to announce that Shovel Knight Dig releases today (September 23rd) on Nintendo Switch, Steam and Apple Arcade.

Get the game at the following:
Nintendo Switch: http://bit.ly/3TuO7BZ
Steam: http://bit.ly/3R6dLM0
Apple Arcade: http://apple.co/3AXpffa

Get your shovels and Dig in to our most ambitious release yet!

Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert

Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:14:03 GMT

Hi Nitromians,

what better way to end the year than with a brand new game? Today we have launched sequel to our stretchy adventure Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert. Set within a Dessert themed dreamland there are many new obstacles and enemies to deal with from Cherry (on the cake) bombs to Enemy Cream that you literally have to eat through. New to this version are special side challenge rooms with Dog Treat prizes to collect and we even round off the game with an epic boss fight against a wedding cake at the end.

What are you waiting for? Go Download it now!

Apple App Store

Google Play Store

New Game - Hop Swap

Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:32:18 GMT

Hi Nitromians,

anyone who missed it from the front page should check out our Hop Swap Game that we launched a little while ago! Its a crazy Platformer where you can literally but stomp your way between worlds!

Download:

Apple App Store

Google Play Store

Ultimate Briefcase - Out Now!

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 17:01:53 GMT

Nitrome is pleased to announce that our first ever published game Ultimate Briefcase is now live on the Google Play and the Apple App Store. So if you have a mobile device you can go and download it now!

Hundreds of automated doomsday machines have been unleashed on the city.

Survive waves of onslaught using your dodging skills and a variety of ridiculous special moves.

Where did the mysterious bomb-dropping, laser-spewing machines come from? What is the Ultimate Briefcase? And what is in it?

• Unlock a cast of unique characters, all with their own upgradable special abilities.
• Explore different areas of the city, from the fiery alley to the treacherous trapdoors of the water works bridge.
• Unlock new items to help you survive longer and rake in more coins.
• Collect security footage to piece together the story, and find answers to some of the questions above.
• No unlocks are purely cosmetic – everything you get has a real effect on the game.

Enjoy!

2 new browser games!

Thu, 28 Jan 2016 22:58:12 GMT

Hi Nitromians,

today we have not one but two new browser games for you to play on the Nitrome website!

First up is our twisty adventure game Beneath the Lighthouse! Work your way through a mysterious series of rooms in the cliffs Beneath the Lighthouse in search of your Grandpa.

Second we have Rust Bucket which we tried extra hard to launch the same day as the update on mobile! Turn based Rougelite! Follow up to our Turnament icon game with both levels and endless mode to try!

We will still be bringing you Go Pogo soon but we have a few problems need ironing out there still.

Have fun!

Go Pogo Update 1

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:43:59 GMT

Hi Nitromians,

there is now a cool new update to our Go Pogo game live on the app stores! Yay!

It features 10 new exteme stages for those of you brave enough to try and beat! There are also 10 new characters to unlock! Hooray! We also tuned a few of the early bits to help users get into the game a little easier. We hope you enjoy the update.

Now we havent posted much recently....sorry. So time for a little update on whats to come next!

Rust Bucket update should be hitting next week to the App Stores!

Ultimate Briefcase should follow the week after launching in the first week of Feb (Sorry I know we said January before but it slipped slightly).

Now your all due some web games and we promised them for January too. We will try to get all three....some may end up being Feb though.

Have a great weekend everybody!

Xmas Rollar Polar Update!

Thu, 10 Dec 2015 20:46:07 GMT

SURPRISE!

What better way to get us all in the xmas mood than an update to our fast and frantic game Roller Polar!

Unlock new bears in the Bearwear shop and take them out for a roll down the mountain, who wants to play as Bare Bear?

We have made a few other gameplay tweaks aswell to smooth out the difficulty curve. Theres gold to collect for extra challenge, some obstacle pattern changes, the characters each have there own wails, growls and squeaks and even the annoying eagle has had an upgrade.

For those of you who missed it the first time round. You can grab it FREE for your device here!

Enjoy =)

Vault! Now on the web!

Fri, 25 Sep 2015 20:49:33 BST

Hi Nitromians,

as promised last week when we launched Green Ninja we have launched Vault! on the website too so were now up to date with the mobile releases. From here on out were going to try and make them happen a similar time.

As a word of warning the game will not work in Chrome sadly as a they switched off Unity support earlier in the year. We would recommend using Firefox to play our games at the moment.

WebGL should eventually fix this issue but it seems to be a future fix at the moment sadly.

Next week we'll have another pixel love for you and should be able to give you more info on upcoming games. Some of them are getting quite close to completion now!

you can play vault here

Have a great weekend everyone!

Green Ninja Web build live!

Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:18:45 BST

Hi Nitromians,

we realise it has been a frustrating wait for this but Green Ninja: Year of the Frog is now live on the website. This is just the Unity build so if your using Chrome which turned off Unity a few months back your going to have to swap browser I'm afraid. We would suggest Firefox.

We are hoping to put Vault live next week and then launch Beneath the Lighthouse as close to the mobile release as we can manage...ideally the same day. We then hope to stick with this on releases going forward.

We hate to over promise as things usually go wrong but this is our intent at this moment in time.

For those interested we are still intending to persue WebGL versions of all the Unity games. We have been trying to do this for a while with mixed success. Ultimatly despite overcoming several hurdles there seems to be an issue with the WebGL builds requiring too much memory which causes the browser to not load the content on some computers. It is particularly an issue on Chrome which is annoying as Chrome is the browser we would most like to get it working on.

We still have no web developer at the moment which means were not majorly looking at the WebGL issue at this point in time. We are interviewing for the possition so at some point we will have someone again to look into this. We do feel however that this issue is somthing that is more an issue of the Unity exporter. A lot of devs are reporting the same issue and Unity seem to accnowlege that there is work to be done in this area to improve so the hope is that a furture Unity update may fix this issue that were having.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Cooped Up (Browser) Released!

Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:41:21 BST

Cooped Up is now available to play on your browser!

You are the latest addition in the exotic bird sanctuary. The other older birds have been Cooped Up a little too long and are a branch short of a perch!

Click To Play Cooped Up!

We are currently working on a WebGL solution to bring the Nitrome. For the meantime, Chrome users can manually install Unity WebPlayer or use another browser like Firefox.

Have Fun Everyone!

Green Ninja: FREE & Out Now!

Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:32:39 BST

Green Ninja is now available for iOSÂ and AndroidÂ for free!

Check out the trailer, above to get an idea of what is in our latest game!

Have fun everyone!

Cooped Up is now live!

Wed, 06 May 2015 20:13:40 BST

Hi Nitromians,

if you didn't guess already from the promo art around the site and the previous blog post, our new game 'Cooped Up' is now live on Apples App Store and the Goggle Play store. It should be live also on the Amazon App store any time now. It's the pricy price of freeeeeeeee so if you can afford that and have a pocket based computer thing you can go download it now!

The game is also coming to the Nitrome site but there will be a delay on that. Hopefully a lot less than there was on Silly Sausage! Were sorry for the delay there we want to bring the games to all formats simultaniously but it's very hard to get everything to align and the web version is the most different. Hopefully as we get the Web GL stuff up and running we can work on getting the process a little more streamlined!

So heres the links:

iPhone/iPad

Google Play

Silly Sausage in Meat Land!

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:16:56 BST

Silly Sausage in Meat Land is now available in the browser!

We will soon be offering a way for you to play this game in WebGL, which could mean you don't need the Unity Web Player. Google Chrome has now ended support for "Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface" (or NPAPI). If you are experiencing issues playing the unity game, you could get a different browser that still supports this feature set.

We will also be putting up a technical post about WebGL in the coming days.

Click to Play Silly Sausage in Meat Land!

Until then, have fun everyone!

Silly Sausage in Meat Land Out Now!

Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:47:16 GMT

Well we have been a bit busy today and totally forgot to actually announce the game was out on the blog and social.

So if you didn’t notice everything else that went on, the game is now out on iOS and Google Play and on Amazon first thing tomorrow (sorry we were waiting for an update to go through their system so minor delay).

The web version of the game should be along shortly too in both WebGL and Unity Player formats.

Play Fluffball!

Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:32:04 GMT

Hi Nitromians!

We mentioned a few days ago that we had a little surprise for our browser audience coming. We realise that with Magic Touch sadly not being available on the website, that it has left a bit of a gap in our release schedule. Hopefully that shouldn't be for too long, but we have also been far too aware for a long time of repeat comments asking about our unreleased game, Fluffball.

Fluffball was a game that was made all the way back in 2007 under a deal that we had with Miniclip. We finished the game and Miniclip posted it on the back of their site but both parties agreed that we weren't happy with the finished game. The game stalled at this point and after several revisions the game was never officially released.

This is the last version of the game that we made which attempted to re-jig the controls heavily turning it from the original mouse based controls to keyboard controls. We were still never satisfied with the end result but as there is clearly an interest, we felt this would be a good time to lay it to rest.

So without further ado, you can play our unreleased (ahem.. now released) Fluffball game, fresh out of stasis!

So what do you think... were we right to keep it unreleased?

Answers in the comments below and have fun... or don't... we'll see!

Magic Touch - OUT NOW!

Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:15:21 GMT

Hi Nitromians,

If you didn't already see from the various marketing assets that popped up round the site yesterday our latest ‘FREE’ mobile game ‘Magic Touch: Wizard for Hire’ has now landed on your local app store!

It is available on Apples App Store, the Google Play Store and Amazons App Store. If you have a mobile device and have read this far without rushing to download it then what are you waiting for? If your waiting for the browser version to hit then I’m afraid your out of luck this time as we built Magic Touch in a language that is not easy to port to the browser so that’s not going to happen. The good news is that we don’t intend to make a habit of this and our next game will be heading your way shortly. Also we may have a special secret something lined up for you browser only folk that should make up for it a bit... shhhh you didn't hear that.

Gunbrick: OUT NOW!

Thu, 08 Jan 2015 10:31:58 GMT

We are very pleased to announce that Gunbrick is OUT NOW!

We hope you all have fun rolling around the Gunbrick universe solving the huge amount of puzzles that we have on offer!

Happy Gaming Everyone!

Platform Panic - OUT NOW!

Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:46:18 GMT

We have just released Platform Panic!

You can now play on iOS, Android or in you Web Browser!

Happy Gaming Everyone!!