A lot of studios focus on one type of game. Landfall is not one of them. Haste is a freerunning roguelike that I fell in love with during Steam Next Fest, but it's only a tiny part of the studio's eclectic history. Content Warning is a humorous send-up of social horror games. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is a strategy game defined by ragdoll physics, a trait it shares with its battle royale spin-off, TABG. Stick Fight: The Game is a simplistic platform fighter. To find Landfall's last real similarity with its new game, you'd have to go back nine years and eight releases – bringing us to 2016's Clustertruck and its vehicular freerunning.
Despite that, however, the studio's head of community Hanna Fogelberg tells GamesRadar+ the team "never really stopped" making games like this. "The actual sidetrack thing we did was making TABS – that's the weird side-plot of the studio, which is strange because it's obviously one of our biggest games and what we're very much known for." The similarity between this ragdoll strategy game and Haste's fast, elegant, flow-state-inducing gameplay might not immediately be clear, but TABS begat TABG, which has remnants that are "very, very reminiscent of the early Haste stuff."
