Now There Be Goblins: Tower Defense VR

Released: Apr 4, 2023
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Last updated: 16 Sep 2026, 22:49 GMT

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18 May 2023Developer post
Enter the Goblins world: Unveiling Community Items!
Hello, Blacksmiths! We're thrilled to introduce a range of community items now available for Now There Be Goblins: Enjoy goblin-themed backgrounds for your profile: add a mischievous touch, or unleash badass powers. Enhance your conversations with some funny goblin emojis. displa
Hello, Blacksmiths!
We're thrilled to introduce a range of community items now available for Now There Be Goblins:

Enjoy goblin-themed backgrounds for your profile: add a mischievous touch, or unleash badass powers.
Enhance your conversations with some funny goblin emojis.
display your goblin achievements or highlight the game as your favorite with: Feature Showcases.
And lastly unlock exclusive blacksmiths badges to proudly display your power over the goblins, showcasing your dedication to Now There Be Goblins.
And to celebrate it, we've discounted the game 20% off.
- Shocktopus Games Team!
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04 Apr 2023Developer post
Current State of Development
Dear Players, It's with a heavy heart that we announce our departure from the game we've been working on for the past 3 years. We've poured our hearts and souls into its development, creating something that we're truly proud of. However, we've come to the difficult decision to mo
30 Jan 2023Developer post
Update 1.0.0 - Hobgoblins Update out now!
We live in dangerous times. The goblin forces are advancing now more than ever, and while you're getting better, unlocking new hammers and better structures... So are they. The goblins have found strong new allies in the hobgoblins. Bigger, stronger, and much badder. Ready to des
We live in dangerous times.
The goblin forces are advancing now more than ever, and while you're getting better, unlocking new hammers and better structures...
So are they. The goblins have found strong new allies in the hobgoblins. Bigger, stronger, and much badder. Ready to destroy you and all the statues you've worked so hard for.
But hope isn't lost just yet. As long as you've got your trusty hammer and the will to fight, we can still prevail!
These hobgoblins are an addition to the medium and hard modes as well as fully incorporated into the long-awaited EXTREME modes even more challenging than hard mode.
Below you'll find the full list of additions and tweaks in this update.
Features

Tribal hobgoblins, which lifesteal a little health back when attacking and passively heal when out of combat.
Gladiator hobgoblins, which go bezerk with low health increasing their attack speed and tough skin handeling structures very well.
Fistfighting with hobgoblins
Extreme modes
New stronger weapons and shields
Bug Fixes, tweaks, and balancing:

Increased performance of fire particles.
Falling into thepit in Mineral Mines, and Frozen Ruins now deals a little damage.
Reworked medium and hard modes in all levels.
Minecart can now be killed with a hammer.
Known Issues:

There are still a number of bugs regarding the AI of the goblins, sometimes ignoring the player, glitching, or standing completely still.
There are some unresolved issues with a bunch of structures that we will address in the near future.
When activating the ability of a hammer, it becomes unholsterable for the time said ability is active.
In both tutorials, the statue can't be destroyed by goblins but damage does account towards your score.
In the structure detail window, some parameter names are too long and are cut off.
In the 'Introduction' tutorial audio is sometimes cut off.
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28 Nov 2022Developer post
Patch - 0.2.0.3 - Stray Goblins
Bug Fixes, tweaks, and balancing: We noticed a couple of naughty goblins stuck around in the Mineral Mines. They have delicately been 'taken care of'. One of our developers also left a bow lying around somewhere in the Mystical Woods. We do not condone littering, therefore the de
Bug Fixes, tweaks, and balancing:

We noticed a couple of naughty goblins stuck around in the Mineral Mines. They have delicately been 'taken care of'.
One of our developers also left a bow lying around somewhere in the Mystical Woods. We do not condone littering, therefore the developer has been dealt with as well. Oh and we also removed the bow from the level.
Known Issues:

There are still a number of bugs regarding the AI of the goblins, sometimes ignoring the player, glitching, or standing completely still.
There are some unresolved issues with a bunch of structures that we will address in the near future.
When activating the ability of a hammer, it becomes unholsterable for the time said ability is active.
In both tutorials, the statue can't be destroyed by goblins but damage does account towards your score.
In the structure detail window, some parameter names are too long and are cut off.
In the 'Introduction' tutorial audio is sometimes cut off.
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24 Nov 2022Developer post
Vote for Now There Be Goblins as VR Game Of The Year!
Let everyone know you're enjoying the game by nominating Now There Be Goblins for VR GAME OF THE YEAR on the STEAM AWARDS!
14 Nov 2022Developer post
[UPDATED] Patch - 0.2.0.2 - Game Breaking Bug In Medium Mode
Bug Fixes, tweaks, and balancing: - Standard - Medium in The Keep would brick from wave 7. - Standard - Hard in The Keep would brick from wave 6, these have now been resolved. - The Final Detonation wouldn't always award the correct amount of score, this has been patched. - Soul
07 Nov 2022Developer post
Patch - 0.2.0.1 - Quick Fixes
Bug Fixes, tweaks, and balancing: The sun is back in the mystical woods. Several other small lighting glitches in the mystical woods have been resolved. Bow arrow trails now behave properly. Nightmare mode in Frozen Ruins now has correct colliders. Known Issues: There are still a
Bug Fixes, tweaks, and balancing:

The sun is back in the mystical woods.
Several other small lighting glitches in the mystical woods have been resolved.
Bow arrow trails now behave properly.
Nightmare mode in Frozen Ruins now has correct colliders.
Known Issues:

There are still a number of bugs regarding the AI of the goblins, sometimes ignoring the player, glitching, or standing completely still.
There are some unresolved issues with a bunch of structures that we will address in the near future.
When activating the ability of a hammer, it becomes unholsterable for the time said ability is active.
In both tutorials, the statue can't be destroyed by goblins but damage does account towards your score.
In the structure detail window, some parameter names are too long and are cut off.
In the 'Introduction' tutorial audio is sometimes cut off.
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31 Oct 2022Developer post
Nightmare Update live now!
We're glad to say the nightmare update is live now! Hi everyone! After a long time we're finally ready to release the first big update consisting of the new Nightmare addition as well as some fixes under the hood (such as a complete redo of the animation system as a setup for the
28 Jun 2022Developer post
Patch - 0.1.0.9 - Turn speed settings and performance
Bug Fixes, tweaks, and balancing: 'Turn Increment' setting renamed to 'Turn Speed' Turn speed slider increments set to steps of 5 instead of 15 Turn speed with smooth turn is now in degrees per 1/4 seconds to increase the speed of turning. Turn speed setting now correctly saves a
Bug Fixes, tweaks, and balancing:

'Turn Increment' setting renamed to 'Turn Speed'
Turn speed slider increments set to steps of 5 instead of 15
Turn speed with smooth turn is now in degrees per 1/4 seconds to increase the speed of turning.
Turn speed setting now correctly saves and loads from save files.
Known Issues:

There are still a number of bugs regarding the AI of the goblins, sometimes ignoring the player, glitching, or standing completely still.
There are some unresolved issues with a bunch of structures that we will address in the near future.
When activating the ability of a hammer, it becomes unholsterable for the time said ability is active.
In both tutorials, the statue can't be destroyed by goblins but damage does account towards your score.
In the structure detail window, some parameter names are too long and are cut off.
In the 'Introduction' tutorial audio is sometimes cut off.
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23 Jun 2022Developer post
Get 35% off Now There Be Goblins during the Steam Summer Sale!
Hello fellow blacksmiths! It's getting warm and sunny outside, and you know what that means right? It means it's time to turn on the AC and play VR all day long! And what's better than playing VR all day long? Playing games that you've bought on sale of course! Steam Summer Sale
21 Jun 2022Developer post
Patch - 0.1.0.8 - Rounded-corners in UI and save file stability
Features: Modes now have a colored border displaying what type of mode it is. Grey = Tutorial Green = Casual Blue = Standard Save files that are corrupted will now be put into a quarantine folder instead of bricking the game. Bug Fixes, tweaks, and balancing: Save files now suppo
Features:

Modes now have a colored border displaying what type of mode it is. Grey = Tutorial Green = Casual Blue = Standard
Save files that are corrupted will now be put into a quarantine folder instead of bricking the game.
Bug Fixes, tweaks, and balancing:

Save files now support future added content such as new modes.
All modes now have their own thumbnail based on level and difficulty.
Some buttons and thumbnails have been updated to have rounded corners for better consistency.
Goblins in standard modes now have a slight chance of spawning with a bow on their back.
Bows are now degradable based on the number of arrows shot from them.
Some out-of-bounds spots have been patched up in 'The Keep'.
The king has been moved down ever so slightly in 'Learn the basics' tutorial.
Buttons now only increase in size on highlight when activated.
In the 'Learn the basics' tutorial while learning about your active ability, the ability now always activates when the button is pressed.
Known Issues:

When you exit the game either through the pause menu or by pressing ALT+F4 while leveling up, just before choosing a newly unlocked structure variant, you miss out on the unlock.
There are still a number of bugs regarding the AI of the goblins, sometimes ignoring the player, glitching, or standing completely still.
There are some unresolved issues with a bunch of structures that we will address in the near future.
When activating the ability of a hammer, it becomes unholsterable for the time said ability is active.
In both tutorials, the statue can't be destroyed by goblins but damage does account towards your score.
In the structure detail window, some parameter names are too long and are cut off.
In the 'Introduction' tutorial audio is sometimes cut off.
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31 May 2022Developer post
Patch - 0.1.0.7 - Tutorial & UI improvements
Features: Buttons now slightly increase in size when highlighted. When hovering over the stats of a structure, it now shows its value (From Ultra Low to Ultra High). You can now step back and forward on tutorial screens. The 'introduction' tutorial has been slightly revamped with
Features:

Buttons now slightly increase in size when highlighted.
When hovering over the stats of a structure, it now shows its value (From Ultra Low to Ultra High).
You can now step back and forward on tutorial screens.
The 'introduction' tutorial has been slightly revamped with many small improvements. (Such as additional explanations, better dialogue, more audio cues)
Bug Fixes, tweaks and balancing:

Learning about the hammer in the 'introduction' tutorial is now less stressful and more stretched out to give a better overall experience.
The 'introduction' tutorial now starts by asking you to stand in the correct spot within the game to get the best experience.
The 'Learn the basics' tutorial now explains active abilities.
Speed of dialogue has been slightly decreased with some long sentences.
You can't walk straight through the doors in 'the king's castle' anymore.
The useless menu before creating a save file has been removed.
Floppy Physics now changes according to your graphics presets as well.
The trashcan button, for deleting save files, can now only be pressed when save files are present.
Shield and other weapons now keep their current durability when holstered.
'Distance details' has been removed from settings as this currently does nothing.
The collider of the player has been slightly increased to remove the possibility of many bugs.
There was a bug where you could teleport through the roof of the cabin in the tutorial levels, this has now been resolved.
Pausing during the rewards / levelling up screen after playing a mode, has now been disabled.
Slightly decreased the size of descriptions in level select, to better accommodate the long descriptions.
Slightly improved game performance.
Known Issues:

When you exit the game either through the pause menu or by pressing ALT+F4 while leveling up, just before choosing a newly unlocked structure variant, you miss out on the unlock.
There are still a number of bugs regarding the AI of the goblins, sometimes ignoring the player, glitching, or standing completely still.
There are some unresolved issues with a bunch of structures that we will address in the near future.
When activating the ability of a hammer, it becomes unholsterable for the time said ability is active.
In both tutorials, the statue can't be destroyed by goblins but damage does account towards your score.
In the structure detail window, some parameter names are too long and are cut off.
In the 'Introduction' tutorial audio is sometimes cut off.
In the 'Learn the basics' tutorial while learning about your active ability, the ability can sometimes not activate. (We'll patch this soon)
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17 May 2022Developer post
Patch - 0.1.0.6 - Some smaller issues addressed
Bug Fixes, tweaks and balancing: GOBLIN BEHAVIOUR Goblins now walk a bit slower when walking away from you in combat. Goblins now avoid walking into the player body instead of the circle to reduce issues when players stand off-centered from their playspace. HAMMERS The Bloodthirs
Bug Fixes, tweaks and balancing:
GOBLIN BEHAVIOUR

Goblins now walk a bit slower when walking away from you in combat.
Goblins now avoid walking into the player body instead of the circle to reduce issues when players stand off-centered from their playspace.
HAMMERS

The Bloodthirster rope length was set incorrectly. This is now a maximum of 5 meters.
The Whack-A-Gob now returns back to its normal size after activating the active ability twice.
UI AND TEXT

The grades of every mode have been updated based on user data. (The more players play, the more accurate the grades get)
When unlocking a hammer, both the active and passive ability descriptions are now displayed correctly.
'Mineral Mines' standard modes showed incorrect descriptions. This has now been patched.
Bottles in 'The Keep' now have an image in the HUD when holstered.
When creating a save file from slot 3, the text said slot 2. This has now been fixed.
Added a texture of two feet in the circle below the player, to indicate where you should stand.
Known Issues:

When you exit the game either through the pause menu or by pressing ALT+F4 while leveling up, just before choosing a newly unlocked structure variant, you miss out on the unlock.
There are still a number of bugs regarding the AI of the goblins, sometimes ignoring the player, glitching, or standing completely still.
There are some unresolved issues with a bunch of structures that we will address in the near future.
When activating the ability of a hammer, it becomes unholsterable for the time said ability is active.
In the 'Introduction' tutorial, the statue can't be destroyed by goblins but damage does account towards your score.
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03 May 2022Developer post
Patch - 0.1.0.5 - Tutorial Improvements and overall stability
Bug Fixes, tweaks and balancing: HAMMERS After selecting a hammer in your loadout, the selected hammer wouldn't persist after playing a mode. This has now been resolved. The hammer could become irretrievable when accidentally distance grabbing a weapon with the main-hand while th
Bug Fixes, tweaks and balancing:
HAMMERS

After selecting a hammer in your loadout, the selected hammer wouldn't persist after playing a mode. This has now been resolved.
The hammer could become irretrievable when accidentally distance grabbing a weapon with the main-hand while the hammer is unholstered. This has been resolved.
Damage dealt by the Soul Taker didn't attribute to score, this has now been patched.
The Bloodthirster could brick holsters, when holstering while its ability was activated. This was resolved by prohibiting holstering while active.
Damage dealt by the Lethal Dose ability attributed to the combat bar which leads to unbalanced gameplay. This has now been changed.
STRUCTURES

Barricades now show the "damage survived" stats correctly in their structure detail window.
Several issues with the Trench Digger have now been resolved.
When hitting a goblin, the sharpshooter sometimes registered multiple hits. This has now been fixed to a single hit.
TUTORIAL

The King had a visual glitch while looking into the sun, this has been fixed.
Tooltips now have a white border around them increasing their visibility.
Tooltips now show the color of the structure wheel when asking you to select a structure.
Tooltips have a new hover behaviour improving their usability.
Tooltips now highlight the button concerning their action.
While a tooltip is showing a controller, this controller now draws in front of everything.
The objective list now shows which objective is active and must be performed before the others.
The introduction tutorial now has a tooltip pointing you towards the pause screen.
OTHER

The 0 coins / 0 time bug bricking gameplay, has now been resolved.
Juggernaut animations have been slightly tweaked to accommodate better combat.
Bottles in The Keep would sometimes immediately break on distance grab, this has been fixed.
Text would sometimes cut-off while getting unlocks in the endscreen. This has been fixed.
Known Issues:

When you exit the game either through the pause menu or by pressing ALT+F4 while levelling up, just before choosing a newly unlocked structure variant, you miss out on the unlock.
There are still a number of bugs regarding the AI of the goblins, sometimes ignoring the player, glitching, or standing completely still.
There are some unresolved issues with a bunch of structures which we will address in the near future.
When activating the ability of a hammer, it becomes unholsterable for the time said ability is active.
When unlocking a hammer, both the active and passive ability descriptions are incorrectly displayed.
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19 Apr 2022Developer post
Patch - 0.1.0.4 - Some Urgent Issues Resolved
Bug Fixes, tweaks and balancing: The game doesn't brick anymore when enabling the spectator camera in main menu. When gaining XP but not levelling up, the new XP didn't update correctly. Crashes revolving around videos in tutorial and level select have been resolved. Distance gra
Bug Fixes, tweaks and balancing:

The game doesn't brick anymore when enabling the spectator camera in main menu.
When gaining XP but not levelling up, the new XP didn't update correctly.
Crashes revolving around videos in tutorial and level select have been resolved.
Distance grabbing objects with your main hand wasn't correctly updated in the last patch, this has now been done.
Cannons incorrectly damaged Juggernaut's armour, this also caused an exploit giving much more score than other structures leading to unfair highscores.
The Cheap Shots rotation video showed the Trench Digger at the end, this has now been removed.
Colliders of chairs in level select have now been adjusted to their correct size.
Second Chance had incorrect description text, this has been changed.
Known Issues:

When you exit the game either through the pause menu or by pressing ALT+F4 while levelling up, just before choosing a newly unlocked structure variant, you miss out on the unlock.
There are still a number of bugs regarding the AI of the goblins, sometimes ignoring the player, glitching, or standing completely still.
In some specific instances the hammer may become irretrievable from the ground or unholsterable. (Let us know when you've got this issue as it helps us track it down)
After losing a mode, in some cases, the next mode will be unplayable showing 0 coins and 0 time left in the buildphase. (Let us know when you've got this issue as it helps us track it down)
There are some unresolved issues with a bunch of structures which we will address in the near future.
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12 Apr 2022Developer post
Patch - 0.1.0.3 - Losing, winning and leveling up
Features: We've added a brand new 'Game Lost' screen giving you a portion of the XP you would've gotten with a penalty based on how far you've come. We also reworked the 'Game Lost' animation to look slightly more polished and distinguish between losing because of statue loss or
Features:

We've added a brand new 'Game Lost' screen giving you a portion of the XP you would've gotten with a penalty based on how far you've come.
We also reworked the 'Game Lost' animation to look slightly more polished and distinguish between losing because of statue loss or health.
Bug Fixes, tweaks and balancing:

When upgrading the Final Detonation from Tier 2 to 3, the structure detail window now shows the correct parameters.
When a goblin died before the Final Detonation would detonate, the structure wouldn't detonate any arrows for the remainder of that mode. This has now been resolved.
The Vengeful Eye didn't open properly when placed. This has been resolved.
The Plague Hammer had some errors, which have now been removed.
The overall stability of the end screen UI after winning or losing a mode, has been improved significantly.
Structure and hammer cards were slightly squished in the end screen UI.
While unlocking a new structure variant, there is now a back button in the details window, to go back and look at the other structure variants.
Within that same details window, the parameter sliders didn't update according to the structure selected, this has now been resolved as well.
We've added a button to continue from the score to level-up screen, to give you a longer look at how you've played.
Structures remained active and attacking even when the game was lost, this has now been resolved.
You couldn't distance grab objects and weapons in the first tutorial with your right hand after the initial learning moment, now you can.
The active ability bar doesn't do anything in the first tutorial and has therefore been hidden in that mode for the moment.
There were a couple of spots in the Keep where you could accidentally teleport out of bounds. These have been patched up.
Bottles in the Keep are now distance grabbable.
Known Issues:

You can still get stuck in the blacksmith's cabin when starting a standard mode in the Keep.
When you exit the game either through the pause menu or by pressing ALT+F4 while leveling up, just before choosing a newly unlocked structure variant, you miss out on the unlock.
There are still a number of bugs regarding the AI of the goblins, sometimes ignoring the player, glitching, or standing completely still.
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04 Apr 2022Developer post
Phase 1 - Feedback
Hi Everyone! The launch week is now official concluded, and we'd like to thank everyone who has already bought the game! Starting now the game will enter Phase 1 of Early Access meaning we'll continue to push out bug fixes and small tweaks while working on bigger improvement base
Hi Everyone!
The launch week is now official concluded, and we'd like to thank everyone who has already bought the game!
Starting now the game will enter Phase 1 of Early Access meaning we'll continue to push out bug fixes and small tweaks while working on bigger improvement based on YOUR feedback!
That means we're highly reliant on getting every bit of feedback we can, so I urge you to please leave a review and let us know if you've got any issues / bugs or suggestions here on the forum or on our discord server. We're very active there and appreciate all the feedback we can get, as that's the best part of Early Access!
Currently we've already got a few things planned such as:

Improving the tutorial to include all missing controls (such as active abilities of hammer / opening settings menu)
Giving a bit of XP even when you lose, based on how far you've come
Fixing common bugs, such as getting stuck in the winscreen, spawning inside the blacksmith's cabin while in a standard mode, ect.
And much more...
We expect to get patches with fixes and tweaks out bi-weekly, with intermittent small updates
Don't forget this phase is entirely based on your feedback so let us know what you think by posting a review!
But for now, thanks for reading and let's smack some goblins!
- Yamir, Game Designer at Shocktopus Games
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30 Mar 2022Developer post
Patch - 0.1.0.2 - Level Progression Screen
Goblin weapons don't continue triggering haptics on the controllers anymore after being dropped Tweaked the grades based on your scores Added a level progression bar to the level select to better highlight when which hammer, level and structure variant is unlocked Changed the act
Goblin weapons don't continue triggering haptics on the controllers anymore after being dropped
Tweaked the grades based on your scores
Added a level progression bar to the level select to better highlight when which hammer, level and structure variant is unlocked
Changed the active ability button of the knuckles controllers from press on the thumbstick to the A button for better consistency
Fixed a bug where you could get stuck or not get any unlocks from a level up during the win screen
Added some loading screen tips
Increased XP by 10% gained from each mode
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29 Mar 2022Developer post
Early Access Launch - Gameplay Livestream
Hi everyone! It's launch week! Tomorrow we'll be live playing the game, over at our store page. Go check it out to see some gameplay!
28 Mar 2022Developer post
Day One Patch - 0.1.0.1 - Some very small fixes
- Fixed situation in which players could get stuck during the structure tutorial segment. - Fixed issue where Hammers would be displayed out of order in the load-out menu. - Fixed arms of repeater tutorial ghost being blue, despite the rest of the ghost being white. - You now sta