Thank Goodness You're Here!

Fact sheet

Developer: Coal Supper
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Platforms: Nintendo Switch; PlayStation 4; PlayStation 5; Steam; Epic Games Store; Mac App Store
ESRB rating: M
Engine: Unity
Number of players: 1
Release date/window: August 1, 2024

Tagline

Explore the strange town of Barnsworth in this cheeky comedy slapformer!

Short Description

Thank Goodness You're Here! is an absurd comedy slapformer set in the bizarre Northern English town of Barnsworth. As a traveling salesman, take the time to see the sights and meet the locals, who are very eager to give you a series of increasingly odd jobs...

Longer Description

After arriving early for a big meeting with the mayor of a bizarre Northern English town, a traveling salesman takes the time to explore and meet the locals, who are all very eager to give him a series of increasingly odd jobs… Thank Goodness You’re Here! is a comedy slapformer, which unfolds over time as the players' exploration and antics leave their mark on the strange town of Barnsworth. With each completed odd job, new areas of the town open up, stranger and stranger tasks become available, and the clock ticks towards our salesman’s big meeting. The town’s colorful inhabitants are brought to life with vibrant hand-drawn animation, fully voiced dialogue, and wall-to-wall double entendres.

Features

Bold, beautiful visual design that seamlessly blends side-scrolling action vignettes with top-down exploration in a chock-a-block world
Progressively more involved and puzzling odd-jobs to complete: cut the grass, bake a pie, traverse the astral plane!
Hand-crafted animation and original story based on traditional Yorkshire folklore
Authentic regional dialects guaranteed to mek thi spit art thi tea laughin’
Oddly moving original soundtrack

About

Founded by Will Todd and James Carbutt, Coal Supper is a creative studio from Yorkshire, UK focusing on playful hand-drawn experiences. The studio’s debut title, The Good Time Garden, was launched for free on Steam in 2019, and since then they’ve been hard at work on Thank Goodness You’re Here!