STARWHAL

STARWHAL

Released Sep 2014

The local multi-player space narwhal fighting game that has rocked the internet is finally ready for its big debut in a fully loaded release! Flop it out with 1-4 players in a retro, epic narwhal battle in space! The heart-piercing action is furious and unrelenting. STARWHAL will change your life.

88% positive · 706 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Steam $11.99
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Evaluation

STARWHAL left Early Access and fully launched on September 29, 2014. During Early Access, the developer shipped a steady stream of updates (Beta 2 through Beta 5), and after launch delivered one substantial post-release update — version 1.1.0 on December 16, 2014 — adding new game modes, music tracks, levels, costumes, and multi-language support. The most recent developer communication is a March 21, 2018 announcement promoting their next game, Pizza Titan Ultra, which offered a discount coupon to STARWHAL owners. That post explicitly stated: "After Pizza Titan Ultra we'll be getting back to multiplayer mayhem." However, this statement is now over eight years old with no follow-up, and no further content was ever announced or delivered for STARWHAL. The one released DLC is a soundtrack pack from April 10, 2015. The game's store description presents it as a complete, fully-featured product ("fully loaded release"), referencing the full set of 90+ costumes, 25 arenas, and 4 game modes. There are no unreleased DLC entries, no announced future content, and no ongoing update cadence after December 2014. The 2018 post about future "multiplayer mayhem" was a vague aspiration attached to a cross-promotion, not a concrete commitment, and it was never followed up on in the years since. Given the complete absence of post-launch content development after December 2014, the single soundtrack DLC with no unreleased items, and the developer having moved on to other projects, STARWHAL is best understood as a complete game. The last substantive content shipped on December 16, 2014.
Evidence
Version 1.1.0 shipped as the final major post-launch update, adding Rounds mode, 7 new music tracks, a new level, multi-language support, and new costumes.
news post · Dec 16, 2014 source content shipped
high
STARWHAL fully released out of Early Access with a large content package including new levels, challenge modes, achievements, and costumes.
news post · Sep 29, 2014 source content shipped
high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Breakfall
Achievements
22
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · PvP · Local/Split Screen

About this game

The local multi-player space narwhal fighting game that has rocked the internet is finally ready for its big debut in a fully loaded release!

Flop it out with 1-4 players in a retro, epic narwhal battle in space! The heart-piercing action is furious and unrelenting. STARWHAL will change your life.

Inspired by countless couch-gaming gatherings over the decades, we wanted to bring something competitive, creative, and immediately fun to the table. Our original prototype was conceived and developed in 48 hours with focus entirely on these areas. From that came the phenomenon that is STARWHAL.

STARWHAL is a simulation of dreams in an ocean of the mind.

Features:

  • 4 player local multiplayer mayhem - 90+ costumes, 25 arenas, and 4 game modes to duke it out with friends or AI players.
  • 32 single player Obstacle and Target challenges with leaderboards, ghost replays, and achievements.
  • Successfully made it through Steam Early Access, shaping the game around the feedback from fans around the world.
  • New radical graphic effects!
  • You can be a space narwhal wrapped in a burrito.

What people are saying:

"Starwhal is one of the best multiplayer games of the year, chaotic and intensely competitive"
-IGN

"If Jacques Cousteau were here, he'd sh*t all over the floor."
- Wiley Wiggins on STARWHAL

"Get a friend. Play this NOW. I'm laughing so hard"
- Sean "Day[9]" Plott

"This game is awesome"
- Achievement Hunter

"This large hairless intergalactic aquatic mammal simulator will bring out the 'Ooo!', "Aaa!' and 'So CLOSE!' in everyone"
- Ross Kenry O'Donovan (Distinguished Conductor of the Steam Train)

"Starwhal brings bloodthirsty neon space whales into an entirely new dimension, capturing the spirit of local co-op deathmatches like only a neon space whale can. We couldn't recommend it more."
- Polaris
Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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