Funcom’s Conan Chop Chop Is Launching Early Next Year, This Time It’s Real

conan chop chop key art bannerRemember Conan Chop Chop? Funcom’s Conan-inspired April Fool’s joke that turned out to be a real game? The game was originally scheduled to launch in September last year but was delayed to 2020 so that the developers could expand the game’s couch co-op to a full online multiplayer experience. Funcom set the new launch date for February 25th but pushed it back to Q2 2020 and then again to “later in 2020”.

Now that 2020’s coming to a close, we can’t help but wonder if it’s all just an elaborate April Fool’s prank after all. The latest press release promises an early 2021 release date, and this time Funcom assures fans that it’s real.

“This time we mean it for real. After a series of brilliant ideas have been implemented and a new bunch of cute and deadly mobs and traps have found their way to Hyboria, the development is nearly complete. Conan Chop Chop will release in early 2021, bigger and better than originally intended.”

According to the team, they decided to increase the scope of Conan Chop Chop following the resurgence of “cutesy” online co-op games. The game will support both couch and online co-op on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch and has been updated with more random events, vicious minibosses, new traps, and a virtually infinite number of item combinations.

“While the previous number of possible item combinations was a measly 14 trillion, it is now too high for the human brain to fathom, guaranteeing infinite replayability in a beautifully designed procedurally generated world,” said Funcom Chief Creative Officer Joel Bylos. “If we had launched this year, there’d be half the number of cute pigs in the game, and you can’t launch a Conan game without that.”