Byking published five free PC games to coincide with the Steam Next Fest event. The Japanese studio held an annual game development program for rookies. It also announced that this marks the first time the company has publicly released games created by its new employees.
Two of the five titles feature combat robots. CustomBullet is a 1v1 competitive game with a powerful robot and weapon customization system. Exhausted is a three-player competitive game where each player can change the robot type on the go while trying to push other players into the lava.
The remaining three titles are Ignitean input-based magical action game; Toynip, a two-player cooperative tower defense game; and Reilla ~ Sweets Adventure ~a 2D side scrolling action game.
While the actual games only support the Japanese language, Byking has added English descriptions on each title’s Steam page. Although released on PC, all five games only support control with gamepad instead of keyboard and mouse. Custom bullet points and Toynip also only multiplayer mode without single player support.
Byking is a Japanese game development studio that mainly works on team fighting games such as Gunslinger Stratos, The Starwing Paradoxand Mobile Suit Gundam: Battlefield II Bonds. Shinichiro Obata founded the company in 2008 after previously working at Capcom developing games like Gundam SEED: Alliance vs. ZAFT.
In recent years, the company is best known for developing two Justice of my hero games that Bandai Namco released in 2018 and 2020. However, Byking has also published its own game, titled, Memory Abyss: Fallen Angels and Magical Pathat the end of April 2022. Later on available on Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam.
Byking is also working with Amuzio to release its PlayStation 4 version 2016 arcade title Magicians Dead: Force of the Soul. The company originally revealed the Spring 2022 release window in November 2021. In May 2022, it delay game released in winter.
CustomBullet, Exhausted, Toynip, Igniteand Reilla ~ Sweets Adventure ~ freely available on PC via Steam.
