Here’s a pitch, a beach volleyball game but use characters from an established IP. It’s a wide gamut of games that ranges from Pikachu Volleyball to Dead Or Alive Beach Volleyball. And now here’s one more to add to that list.
Fairy Tail: Beach Volleyball Havoc is a beach volleyball game featuring the cast of Fairy Tail, an ongoing manga and anime series, developed by tiny cactus studio, MASUDATARO, veryOK and Kodansha Game Creators’ Lab.
The premise of simple, have the cast play volleyball. But let them use their magical powers. And things quickly become wild. A havoc, one would say.
Players can pick from a roster of 32 characters to form their two-person team, all in their beach outfits, though the game has very different artstyle to the anime and manga. It’s a stylised depiction of the Fairy Tail cast, and in-game they are all presented in pixel art.
On Steam, the game supports local multiplayer including Steam Remote Play for up to 4 players. Single-player matches against bots are available but looks like there’s no specific single-player mode.
Unlike a normal game of volleyball, power-ups are at play here where ball spikes and serves can turn into lobs of missiles, meteor strikes, tornadoes, giant balls, giant people, giant people but they all been working out and more. Things do get out of hand when over 100 different magic types are available to play.
Just watch the trailer, where the chiptune music devolves rapidly into breakcore as everything goes havoc.
Fairy Tail: Beach Volleyball Havoc is one of two new indie games based on Fairy Tail under the Fairy Tail Indie Game Guild inititive, with this being the second to be released. Fairy Tail Dungeons, a roguelike deckbuilder, is out now.
Fairy Tail: Beach Volleyball Havoc is out now on PC (Steam).