Matrioshka Games and Wandering Wizard are bringing explosive physics and chaotic cave-ins to the co-op scene. Just don’t let the bomb roll backward.
The digging game genre has experienced a massive renaissance over the past year. From titles that task you with tunneling out of a high-security prison to bizarre simulators where you quite literally try to dig your way to Chinatown, players love destroying voxel environments.
During the GDC Expo on Thursday, March 12th, our team stopped by the Snail Games booth to sit down with the developers of a brand-new entry into this destructive genre: Gobby Gang. Developed by Matrioshka Games and published by Wandering Wizard, this title takes the voxel-digging formula and injects it with heavy physics, massive objectives, and pure cooperative chaos.
While the game is still clearly in development, our hands-on time proved that there is a brilliant, highly social experience hiding in these collapsing caves. Here is everything we learned on the show floor.
Shaking the ‘Peak’ Comparisons
When we first sat down to play Gobby Gang, one immediate comparison sprang to mind. The current UI—specifically the way the health, stamina, and resource meters are displayed—gives off major Peak vibes. It looks almost identical to the mountain-climbing hit.
Hopefully, the developers will tweak the interface to give the game its own distinct visual identity before launch. However, once you actually get your hands on the controls, the Peak comparisons completely vanish. Instead of carefully managing stamina to scale a mountain and reach an extraction chopper, Gobby Gang sends you deep underground with a much heavier, far more explosive objective.
The Objective: Push the Bomb
In Gobby Gang, you and your friends are dropped into a fully destructible, procedurally generated voxel cave system. Your primary goal is brilliantly simple, yet mechanically daunting: find a massive bomb, push it through the cave, and get the heck out before everything collapses.
The game features absolutely no overarching time limit while you are exploring the world. Players are free to take their time digging tunnels, carving ramps, blasting shortcuts, and uncovering secrets hidden in the dirt. You can tackle the objective entirely solo, but the physics engine ensures that the bomb has genuine weight and momentum. Pushing it by yourself is a grueling task; bringing friends makes it significantly faster but also infinitely more error-prone. Gravity does not forgive hesitation, and a poorly carved ramp can send your explosive objective rolling all the way back to the bottom of the cavern.
Once the bomb reaches its destination, the game shifts gears into a frantic, high-stakes escape sequence where the cave begins to collapse around you, erasing your carefully constructed paths and forcing split-second improvisation.
No Grind, Just Pure Chaos
One of the most refreshing takeaways from our sit-down with the developers was their stance on meta-progression. I was explicitly told that Gobby Gang will not feature any forced “grindy” elements just to unlock cosmetics for your characters.
The focus is entirely on the shared experience. Every run creates a unique cave layout, meaning your success relies entirely on communication, quick thinking, and the hilarious physical comedy of recovering from a disastrous cave-in. As long as the developers ensure that players have enough new things to find and enough environmental variety to make returning to the caves worthwhile, the replayability will naturally take care of itself.
A Push for ‘GG’
The developers have a very specific goal for the community’s branding of the game: they are hoping to get it trending simply as “GG”.
Given the title (Gobby Gang) and the sheer amount of clutch saves, disastrous team wipes, and chaotic fun we experienced during our brief demo, the acronym fits perfectly. As the game’s Steam page proudly notes, when the dust settles and someone types “GG” in the chat, you will know exactly why.
Gobby Gang currently has a “To Be Announced” release date. We will be keeping a close eye on this one and are incredibly eager to get a longer playtest going with the full TheBigBois squad to see how well our friendships hold up under the weight of a rolling bomb.
Wishlist Gobby Gang on Steam: Store Page
