Esophaguys The Neckening Update Launches

December 23, in the year of our Lord 2025, Toronto, Canada - The Esophaguys Team is thrilled to announce that The Neckening Update is now live across all platforms - Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox, and Steam. This major feature update expands the game's competitive infrastructure while delivering unprecedented quality-of-life improvements, visual and auditory polish.

Key Updates:

Global Online Leaderboards for the hardcore Masochist Mode
Unlocked 4 Player Co-op Levels
New Emotes and Variable Neck Lengths for Player Characters
Now with over 4500+ Mouth-Originated Sound Effects

Competitive and Social Development
The Masochist mode now features global online leaderboards, enabling players to compete for speedrun records, establish personal best times, and challenge friends directly. This competitive layer transforms the unforgiving roguelike experience into a persistent competitive arena. No checkpoints, no land, nothing but neck!

The four player co-op mode is unlocked, granting immediate access to four-player cooperative levels designed specifically for party sessions. These newly architected stages emphasize synchronized chaos and shared objectives, focusing on electric chaining mechanics that are unique to these levels.

Gameplay and Visual Enhancements
The camera system has undergone complete overhaul, eliminating jitter and delivering smooth, responsive gameplay. Gecko animations now execute dynamically, minigame scoring features satisfying confetti effects, hub orb deposits showcase enhanced VFX, and gnome deposit animations have been completely reworked.
Enhanced customization and gameplay options include new emotes and a variable neck-length feature offering fine-tuned control. An improved onboarding menu guides new players through core mechanics and frequently asked questions.

Audio Design: 4,500 Mouth-Originated Sound Effects
This update represents a seismic investment in audio identity: nearly 4,500 personally-recorded mouth-originated sound effects now define the Esophaguys soundscape. Custom quips and vocalizations for gnomes, whales, chickens, Travneck, and hub harp orbs continue to add to the enormous library of organic audio. Just when you’ve thought you heard it all…

The competitive minigame levels received polish, showcasing the game's signature jews-harp and banjo combo with newly mixed tracks and balanced audio transitions.

Comprehensive Bug Fixes
Behind the scenes, extensive work addressed many small bugs and design issues.

About Esophaguys
Esophaguys is a neck-centric, physics-based co-op platformer developed by Esophaguys Team - four developers from the USA, Canada, and South Africa. Winner of Tokyo Game Show 2024 Sense of Wonder Night, the game blends quirky aesthetics with physics-driven gameplay to craft moments of belly-laugh-inducing fun for friends and families worldwide.

The game features the world's first video game soundtrack based on traditional and experimental jews-harp music from around the globe, accompanied by over 4,500+ mouth-originated sound effects, creating a completely unique audio identity.

Available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox, and Steam (with full Steam Deck support).

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