Bob and Prickle is a blaster with real pace Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Bob and Prickle is a blaster with real pace Succulents to be you. Feature by Christian Donlan Features Editor Updated on 17 Jun 2020 Who are Bob and Prickle? Honestly I have no idea, but in the early days of Steam's summer Game Festival, when the store is filled with hundreds of new demos, it's Bob and Prickle I have been spending time with. This is a side-scrolling shooter with the emphasis on shooting. Oh yes, and another emphasis on jetpacks. You scoot around a mazey underground environment blasting at baddies and turrets and all sorts of other things, stopping only to do the occasional rescue or to swap a weapon with a downed enemy. It's percussive! Gunfire crackles and bangs and the beat drives you onwards. I am terrible at Bob and Prickle so I can't tell you what comes next, but I can tell you that it's largely the work of Sedat Güç, a 20-year-old designer from Istanbul who's been making games since he was 14. Bob and Prickle has been in development for two years and is being made entirely without a game engine. Oh yes, and Bob is an amateur hero who acts without thinking and Prickle is a chatty cactus who sadly doesn't make it into the demo, so I guess I do have something of an idea of who these two are after all. Güç describes his game as a "furious" platform shooter, and that's such a wonderful way of putting it I'm going to leave it there. Play this demo though. It is an awful lot of fun. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Features Digital Foundry Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: a new level in graphics performance The Digital Foundry video review - and how the new GPU champion delivers for 4K 120fps gaming. 12 Feature Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way "There's less rage at them, because they didn't end your fun." Feature What games get wrong about horses And what they could do about it. 34 Feature Shout out to all the Overwatch supports - where would we be without you? Merci. 55 Latest Articles Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 59 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 4 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store