Needy Cat Games & Zatu Join Forces For Steel Colosseum!
October 19, 2021 by brennon
Needy Cat Games had some news over the last few days as Robot Fight Club has taken on a new life alongside their partnership with Zatu Games. Steel Colosseum is coming to Kickstarter next year alongside their new publisher.
Steel Colosseum // Needy Cat Games
So, some more information on this one. Steel Colosseum is a two-to-four player game where you take control of two pairs of customisable fighting robots. Each of the robots in the game has its own unique Control Deck which keeps things interesting tactically. Simultaneous action card selection also means that things are on a knife-edge every moment of the game!
Steel Colosseum Art // Needy Cat Games
The new version of Robot Fight Club now features updated artwork and components (as you can see above) alongside all of the things that make Needy Cat Games the games they are. Steel Colosseum is focusing on "crunchy action, strong theme, interesting decisions and loads of modularity and replayability".
This is the first of their own unique board games, designed from the ground up, so it will be fascinating to see more of it in the coming months.
Steel Colosseum Coming 2022 // Needy Cat Games
We love the design duo at Needy Cat Games so it's neat to see that Robot Fight Club was able to find a new way to get to the tabletop. I am a massive fan of the new artstyle which really sells that Sci-Fi scrapper theme.
Are you going to be watching out for this when it hits Kickstarter next year? Did you manage to play the game at SPIEL this year?
Let us know your thoughts in the comments down below...
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Do Needy Cat games just partner up with people who run Kickstarters? And then cancel them?
Robot Fight Club last got cancelled in March 2020, add this to the Myth & Goal debacle and its not quite the confidence booster is it?
I look forward to the extensive coverage on here for the next few weeks only to then hear no more about this.
A project being cancelled to return to Kickstarter at a later date isn’t always a bad thing. We don’t always know what’s going on behind the scenes but it’s usually so they can take another look at relaunching a project in the best way possible.
I totally admire your optimism! If I were someone launching a project I think I would maybe canvass people in advance for feedback rather than wait until you are days into a KS Campaign only to then pull the whole thing “Due to feedback” – this seems to have happened twice now with Needy Cat Games, so I think my original point about it not filling people with confidence stands. Also I am not sure how accurate “This is the first of their own unique board games” that statement is, from the little information available this “game” seem highly derivative… Read more »
I’m editing away the big reply I wrote here, because I was commenting at the end of a long day, I was hungry, I was tired, and I was probably being A Bit Much. In short: Rick, I totally get where you’re coming from, but please check out our history as game designers. We’ve done a lot. Steel Colosseum is the first game we’ve seen through from initial concept to finished product that’s entirely our own idea, rather than working to a brief – I think that’s what the “unique” comment was getting at. If you’d like to know more… Read more »
Morning, And once again thanks for the reply, I didn’t get a chance to fully read your reply last night (it was also a long long day for me in the office) so I am probably glad that I didn’t! I just want to make clear I am not having a go at you personally, you clearly are very passionate about the work you do, and I love that! All things being equal I would love to be in your position where you get to do something you love. And lets be frank its a lot easier for people to… Read more »
I enjoy the product Hellboy the boardgame very much! NeedyCatGames did the design and gave great support with rules and what not after the game got delivered through Kickstarter. But thats it from my point of view, wich is a good one.
They had me at ‘crunchy Action’
Tut tut Guy’s you forgot the first rule of fight club.looks a awesome looking game the dark side of the transformers?