Double Fine's Kiln Brings Pottery Physics and Team Brawling to Game Pass This Spring
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Double Fine has announced Kiln, a pottery-themed party brawler coming to PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Game Pass this spring, featuring clay-molding mechanics and team-based multiplayer modes.
Double Fine is back to doing what it does best, which means ignoring conventional industry trends to build something delightfully strange. Hot on the heels of Keeper, the studio behind Psychonauts has officially unveiled Kiln, a pottery-themed party brawler heading to PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Game Pass this spring. Reported by Matt Wales over at Eurogamer, the project leans hard into creative customisation before throwing players into chaotic multiplayer arenas. You play as a tiny spirit tasked with molding a lump of clay from scratch into a functional fighting vessel, using an accessible control scheme that lets you shape everything from bottles to bowls.
Your chosen clay creation directly dictates your battlefield stats. Kiln balances its roster by sorting your handmade pots into three distinct weight classes. Agile little pots zip around the arena, lumbering heavy pots soak up damage, and balanced medium pots handle the middle ground. Each of the eight available shapes packs unique basic attacks, air moves, and special abilities, such as cylinders executing a heavy ground slam or plates ricocheting off opponents like ceramic boomerangs. Before baking your creation in the oven, you can customise it further with glazes, patterns, stickers, and handles, leaning into the kind of expressive player identity that dominates modern community spaces.
When matches wrap up, players hang out in a social hub called The Wedge to show off their ceramic designs and spend match winnings on fresh customisation gear at the in-game store. At launch, the main attraction is Quench mode, where two teams of four battle to douse the opposing team's kiln while defending their own. It introduces a clever risk-and-reward mechanic because larger pots hold more water for firefighting duties but sacrifice overall health pool capacity. With the Sea of Thieves team lending development expertise to the project, Kiln is shaping up to be a fresh addition to the multiplayer rotation when it arrives on subscription services and storefronts in the coming months. Original reporting and further details can be found at Eurogamer.
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Original article: Eurogamer