Your dog fell down a hole. Grab a helmet, a pickaxe, and your least coordinated friends — you are going in after him. That is the entire setup for Pratfall, the cooperative cave digging and falling game that publisher Daedalic Entertainment and developer Quad Head just announced for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2. No release date yet, but the consoles announcement trailer is out now.
Here is the thing: it is not just your dog. Turns out all the dogs are gone. Somehow there is a construction site in the middle of a dog park, your best friend fell down a hole in it, and the rescue mission goes about as well as you would expect when gravity is the final boss. You will fall. You will dig. You will explode. You will do it all again, probably while laughing too hard to aim your pickaxe.
Pratfall launched on PC via Steam on April 20 of this year, and its feature list reads like a party game designed in a lab to generate clips. Online co-op for up to 250 players — with the gloriously honest scaling note that “four is safe, eight is rough, 12 is ambitious, more kills your PC.” Proximity voice chat, so you can hear your friends screaming as they fall past you. Three procedurally generated biomes, so every run is different. Destructible terrain, interactive items, and explosive chaos — find food to recover, ride ziplines across crevasses, carve your own path with pickaxes, drills, and magic beans, and light the dark with flares. There are cosmetics, full key remapping, gamepad support, and — as the Steam page proudly confirms — fall damage is included.
The co-op chaos genre is having an absolute moment. REPO, PEAK, and RV There Yet? (which hits PS5 and Switch 2 on October 29) have proven that players cannot get enough of physics-based disasters with friends, and Pratfall’s anything-goes lobby sizes plus proximity chat put it squarely in that lineage. Daedalic picking it up for consoles is a real vote of confidence — the publisher behind Deponia and Barotrauma knows a cult hit when it sees one.
No date yet, so the only question is when PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch 2 players get to start falling. Given the PC version has been out since April and the console announcement trailer is already cut, do not be surprised if that date lands sooner rather than later.
For trophy hunters: no PlayStation trophy list yet, but a game built on chaotic co-op objectives and procedural runs usually translates to a fun, varied list. We will update the moment it surfaces.
Watch the official consoles announcement trailer here:
Source: Daedalic Entertainment / Quad Head announcement (October 21, 2026). Coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2 — date TBA. Available now on PC via Steam.
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