World of Goo dev’s new game launches next week

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7 Billion Humans hits Steam on August 23.

7 Billion Humans, the new game from World of Goo creators Tomorrow Corporation, will launch next Thursday.

The announcement came via a new trailer shared on Kyle Gabler’s Youtube channel, showing the game in action.

While Tomorrow Corporation is best known for World of Goo, 7 Billion Humans is actually a direct follow-up the studio’s most recent game Human Resource Machine, which focussed on teaching its players how to use programming commands through the medium of instructing a group of office workers to solve puzzles. It was kind of a halfway house between Lemmings and sudoku, albeit more fun than that description makes it sound, according to PC Gamer’s Angus Morrison anyway.

7 Billion Humans is also much larger than its predecessor, offering 60 unique puzzles, three times as many as Human Resource Machine. It’s intended to be a little more forgiving on the player too, offering the ability to request hints and skip any puzzles that are particularly obstructive.

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