Free! First and foremost, we want to thank our few Early Access adopters when this project was in development in 2018. This started off as a learning project and it succeeded in that, but ultimately, Sumo did not end up proving a viable commercial product. We don't want to leave
Sumo has joined the Steam Summer Sale with a discount of 50%! As the title is still in Early Access, we value player feedback and testing and are happy to set a significant discounted price for the sale event. We've also just released Update #18, which brings a ton of UI revamps
In our first update purely focused on game polish (and just in time for the Steam Summer Sale, where Sumo is slated to be 50% off), we present a massive overhaul to some of the game’s older or placeholder UI elements, updated environment quality, and introduced a new post-process
Character Select - Brand new UI. Each character now shows an icon summarizing their character ability, and multiple players can highlight the same character while scrolling through the list. When a character has already been selected, anyone else who has highlighted that character will not be able to pick them, but can still review their character ability. The ability previews will be re-recorded in a future update to fit in this new UI size.
Victory Screen - Brand new UI, complete with new animations for the intro to the victory screen.
Hot on the heels of our previous update, two more game modes have been added! Sumoball Taking place on a new sports-arena-themed environment, Sumoball presents a less violent mode of play in the form of a sports match. At the center of the arena, a ball will appear - grab the bal
Our first content update is now available! A new game mode selection screen now lets you choose between the THREE game modes Sumo now offers. Skirmish remains as the default Sumo experience, but in addition, you may now play… Blaze - Flying high above the surface of the Moon in a
Welcome all new Sumo players! We’re happy to have you with us, and would love to hear your stories and experiences through either our Steam community boards, Steam’s review system, or on our official Discord ( This update focuses on some early bugs that cropped up in the initial
Sumo is going public soon! We’ll be launching into Early Access with this build - thanks to everyone who’s helped get us here. More updates, more content, and more features are on the way. Our community forums are now set up, so feel free to start discussions and post feedback. C
Massive Performance Improvement Well… apologies on this if anyone on a lower end machine has played recently. A change made several weeks ago had no noticeable impact on my PC, retaining a strong 60FPS, but what I did not realize was that 60 FPS was suddenly pushing my GPU to its
“First Impressions” Update A polish pass has been made on the core gameplay, specifically looking to improve the first impressions of a new player or new group of players. This resulted in the following changes: Friction amount on character movement increased 5x. This is a pretty
Though we still have some work to do, it’s getting close to time to bring Sumo online for Early Access play. This patch focuses on more bug fixing and polish passes. We’ll keep the focus on polishing with likely smaller, more frequent updates until we reach a point where we’re co
For this update, we’re pivoting to getting things polished and ready for an early access release candidate. Lots of bug fixes, balance changes, art polish, gameplay improvements, and more controls options. New Features Mouse Controls - The game’s UI and character controls now sup
We are now public on Steam! Check out our store page, screenshots, and best of all - our spiffy new game trailer! Hop on the community forums and let us know what we could improve in any of these regards. Our next update objective is to get back to focusing on polishing the game
Hey everyone! Thanks for participating in Sumo's Alpha test. From here on out, all patch notes will be listed here in the Announcements section. As of tonight our Steam Store page is live and the game is public knowledge. Tell your friends, follow the game, add to wishlists! Thes