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Pit People

Pit People
Developer(s) The Behemoth
Platform(s) Windows, Xbox One
Release date(s) January 13, 2017 (January 13, 2017) (Early access)
Genre(s) Action role-playing, strategy
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Pit People is an action role-playing strategy video game by indie game developer The Behemoth. An early access version for Windows and Xbox One was released in January 2017.

The Behemoth, founded in 2003 and based in San Diego, California, is known for making games with offbeat humor and a signature cartoon art style. The success of their prior games—Alien Hominid, Castle Crashers, and BattleBlock Theater—established their reputation as an indie game developer. As BattleBlock Theater approached its April 2013 release, the company began work on Pit People under the codename "Game 4" (the studio's fourth game). The new game was designed to continue its predecessor's story, and both prominently feature a "space bear". Its original arena-centered concept was titled "Pit People". Behemoth set out to make a team-based game, and developed its strategy gameplay elements over time—the grid-based combat was raised several months into development. This was a new genre for the company, which had established itself with action games. By 2014, the game had become a "fast-paced, turn-based, co-op adventure with management and role-playing game elements" in development for Xbox One and Steam. While the genre was new for the developer, the game retained their signature style. The team teased its reveal in August 2014, when it debuted as a playable demo at the PAX Prime exposition They released its first trailer a year later, and ran a private beta test in September 2016.Pit People's release date is not set, but Steam Early Access and Xbox One Game Preview program versions were launched on January 13, 2017.


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