Over the last year or so, we've seen a fair few feline adventures head to Xbox — like Stray and Little Kitty, Big City — but 2025 could be the year our canine friends take centre stage.
Announced for a PC and console release next year, Barkour is aiming to deliver "an action/stealth game where you take on the role of a tail-wagging canine". We can see this one being popular if the developer delivers on its ambitions!
"Step into the paws of a brave, four-legged special agent! In BARKOUR, you work for a secret organization where all agents are exceptionally skilled animals brought together by one goal: to save the world from the forces of evil (and mischievous cats)!
Prepare to face bizarre villains in entertaining, action-packed encounters! But don't fret—they may turn out funnier than expected. Each mission is like an episode of a spy comedy, riddled with twists and turns, p(b)arkour-intensive platforming, and fetching locations!"
The team behind this weird and wonderful concept is VARSAV Game Studios; the developer that brought us the underrated Bee Simulator back in 2019. We're looking forward to seeing what they can do with a different animal protagonist this time out!
Anyway, for now all we have is a broad 2025 release window for both the PC and console versions of Barkour, and the team hasn't gone into any more specifics about the exact platforms it'll launch on. Here's hoping we hear more barks about the game's exact launch plans pretty soon.
What do you make of this one so far, canine fans? Will it be a gamer's best friend in 2025? Give us your loudest barks down below!
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Yeeeeeees! Let's gooo.
I'm a doggo guy, so I'm definitely interested.
Dogs and cats are cool and all, but when are we gonna get a game about pet snakes?
@HotGoomba
Playing Snake on my Nokia 1100 was so much fun.
Man, I'm old.
Well I played as a shark and loved it, I’m in. I also gravitate towards games that are not same old …. different day.
While fine, if not that exciting gameplay/movesets I couldn't care what animal is on screen. I'd take a Gori or Blinx over Little Kitty Big City type design any day.
Sure Dog's Life was fair, weird and so on but it did a fair job. So I'm not saying it isn't possible to make a fair regular animal game/animal moveset or fun gameplay with them (like any tv show/movie having fair characters and quirks to their real world) then anthropomorphic animals but it's just how they handle them then 'look at the pet, cosmetics and so on' boring game design logic we get with some of these pathetic games.
To me if it was early 3D even I'd go why? When many back then used animals in such fun ways and like I said Dog's Life doing it's thing and working out fairly well for what it was.
Because that's how basic these games can get and cuteness or animal loving isn't a good enough reason for a game to exist, you need depth not emotional stupidity and basic game design.
I can enjoy a racing game for using cars multiple ways and they are an object, same with a regular person or a superhuman. It's how they present the games personality/gameplay/story, etc.
@HotGoomba The puzzle game Snake Pass is pretty good I hear.
That trailer looks like it has three visual styles...
First, it's just Stray with a dog. Then it's super cartoony. Then it's semi-realistic.
This thing is all over the place.
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