Gorbo FREE
The usual goblin: naked, big-eared, bug-eyed and with no reason to exist.
CREATURE CARE / TYCOON / BAD DECISIONS
HE'S UGLY.
HE'S YOURS.
Adopt a goblin. Feed him, bathe him, teach him, put him to work, and maybe learn his name. What happens next is on you.
COMING SOON TO STEAM & ITCH.IO · 18+
SUBJECT: GORBOSTATUS: NEEDS YOU
01 / A VERY QUESTIONABLE COMPANIONSCROLL TO INSPECT ↓
01 CASE FILE Nº 0001
NOBODY KNOWS WHERE
THEY CAME FROM.
They don't say. They just eat.
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CH 04 · NOTHING TO REPORT01The world was fine.
Traffic, rent, the weather, the evening news. Nothing to report. Nobody had ever seen a goblin.
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02Then they were here.
Nobody saw them arrive. One morning they were simply there — climbing out of the drains, under beds, on the bus, in the school pantry. Big-eared, bug-eyed, naked and hungry. Where from? Nobody knows. They don't say.
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EST. POPULATION4,812,11303They spread.
An invasive species. They eat anything, breed in any corner, chew through cables and crops, clog the sewers and frighten the pets. The balance broke: whole towns overrun in a single season.
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04So the world made an Authority.
People demanded it, governments signed it: the Global Goblin Authority (GGA), to keep the population under control. It has a division for everything.
- Census & Registry
- Adoption & Housing
- Labor & Employment
- Education & Correction
- Production & Extraction
- Containment & Disposal
- Cemetery Services
GOBLINS HAVE NO RIGHTS -
05And it called for volunteers.
Ordinary people, asked to take goblins in. The GGA doesn't ask why.
- House them
- Care for them
- Breed them and sell them
02 THE LITTLE MONSTER
MEET YOUR NEW RESPONSIBILITY.
He is needy, strange, and remarkably good at making a mess. He is also clever, affectionate, and paying attention to everything you do.
PetGoblin is a creature care tycoon watched through a cheap surveillance camera. Your goblins get hungry, thirsty, dirty, sick, scared and bored. They learn from what you do, remember how you treated them, hold grudges against each other and earn their keep — or don't.
- 3species to adopt, more on the way
- 10+jobs, from the circus to the coal mine
- 11rooms, sites and grounds to buy
- ∞ways to regret it
“He remembers more than you think.”
03 THE LITTER
PICK YOUR GOBLIN.
None of them asked for this.
Spazzle 50 ¢
Bulging glassy eyes, ears like wet bat wings and nerves worn to the bone. Jumps at his own shadow.
Barnobo 100 ¢
Heavy brow, a nose that never stops dripping and a voice like a clogged kazoo. The clever one of the litter.
More species
Each with its own body, price, voice and temper. Later: babies that inherit their parents' genome, mutations included.
No two goblins alike. Every goblin is born with a genome: two quirks, a speech tic, his own gestures and gait, inborn likes and fears, ten skin tones and markings — spots, freckles, an eye patch.
04 HOW TO RAISE A GOBLIN
SO MANY WAYS
TO CARE.
Or to call it care.
CAM 01 / HYGIENE
01 —
Keep him alive.
Hunger, thirst, sleep, the latrine, baths in a tin tub or under the hose. Fleas, worms, fever, allergies — and the vet, for a price.
CAM 01 / AFFECTION
02 —
Teach him.
Praise him, scold him, calm him down. He learns words and tricks, learns in his sleep, and figures out what makes you happy — or what makes you swing the bat.
CAM 01 / LIVING ROOM
03 —
Talk to him.
Goblins talk in the third person, about what they remember. Type to yours and an AI answers his own way — with the memories you gave him.
05 SURVEILLANCE ROOM
ALL CAMERAS.
ALL THE TIME.
Real footage. Nothing staged. (Some things staged.)
06 THE FULL FILE
EVERYTHING YOU
CAN DO TO HIM.
Some of it is still being built.
IN THE GAMEIN DEVELOPMENT
IN THE GAME
Jobs
Send him out the door: exotic dancing, the circus, the quarry, cleaning, party waiter, night scarecrow, sewer diving, cosmetics test subject, coal mine, crash test dummy. Each pays, each hurts in its own way — and some open a camera so you can watch.
IN THE GAME
Career tree
Dancer, circus performer, miner: four levels each, from Clumsy to Professional. He earns XP by really working and at school; the better he gets, the more he earns and the less he gets hurt. Next: career schools, cleaner, worker, fighter.
IN THE GAME
Factories
The Fordist Room's conveyor, the Free-Range Goblin Dairy and the Industrial Goblin Farm: milk, tears and eggs, extracted in cycles. Production lines with accidents are next.
IN THE GAME
Education
Goblin school for discipline and new words (sometimes with a punishment note). At home: teach with No! and praise, tricks on command, fears unlearned with love — or pain.
IN THE GAME
Rooms & real estate
Buy rooms, remodel floors and walls, furnish, fix and rotate. Weather at the window, heat and cold, a radio with four stations. Up to six goblins per room — who don't always get along.
IN THE GAME
Management board
A cork board with every goblin's photo, careers and cash, the Goblin Registry with what each one knows and thinks of you, and the In Memoriam.
IN THE GAME
Cemetery
The dead stay in the room and rot until you bury them. Buy the grounds: always night, thin rain, mist, a grave for every name — and a page in the In Memoriam.
IN THE GAME
Living together
Affinity, jealousy, fights over food, shared fleas. Put a Barnobo in with a Spazzle and see what happens.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Clothes & accessories
Rags, hats, earrings, bandages, a gold tooth. The tutu for the stage is only the beginning.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Outings & leisure
Out the door to the park, the square and the street — with fights, accidents and getting run over. Plus darts, bowling, toy cars and a spring rider in the room.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Soul hunting
The ones who are gone still show up now and then. Capture their spirits in the cemetery and bind them into totems.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Multiplayer
Cloud saves, 1v1 darts and bowling, visiting another player's room, trading and breeding goblins. The server is already running.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Battle ring
Train moves, fight for experience, leagues with weapons and obstacles — and injuries that don't heal.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Breeding & genetics
Babies that inherit their parents' quirks, fears and gait, with mutations. Raise them, or sell them while the price lasts.
07 THE ROOM REMEMBERS
NO MORALITY METER.
JUST THE ROOM
YOU MADE.
A warm bed. An empty bowl. A wall full of scratches. Every choice leaves something behind, even when the goblin says nothing.
08 18+ · VIEWER DISCRETION
OR YOU COULD BE
A MONSTER.
The game won't stop you.
Slap him with the power meter at brutal. Throw him at the wall and hear the crunch. Lock him in a cage forever. Press the red button that says DO NOT PRESS.
He'll fall into a coma and rattle for three minutes. He'll wet himself in fear. He'll remember — and so will the others who watched.
Contains violence, gore, animal-like cruelty and gross-out content. Comfort options to reduce gore and flashes are on the way.
“IF HE WERE CUTER, WOULD YOU TREAT HIM DIFFERENTLY?”
09 WHAT'S COMING
THE ROADMAP.
It changes with the testers' votes.
NOW
NEXT
LATER
SOMEDAY
10 THE DOOR OPENS SOON
GIVE HIM A
CHANCE.
PetGoblin is coming soon to Steam and itch.io. The wishlist link is getting ready. He can wait. Probably.
STEAM COMING SOONITCH.IO COMING SOON
STILL WATCHING YOU