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AMC Games and Thunkd to Launch The Magnificent Trufflepigs on PC June 3

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AMC Games announced today that its second title, The Magnificent Trufflepigs, will be releasing on June 3rd for PC. From the lead designer of Everybody’s Gone to the RaptureThe Magnificent Trufflepigs is a first-person, romantic metal-detecting game starring Arthur Darvill (Doctor WhoBroadchurch). Along with the Steam launch, the game will also be available on Epic Game Store soon after. A Nintendo Switch release is slated for later this summer.


The Magnificent Trufflepigs
 tells the story of Adam (played by Darvill) returning to his childhood village to help a woman named Beth on her journey to unearth a local treasure. Crafted by the new Leeds, U.K.-based studio Thunkd, The Magnificent Trufflepigs lets players fulfill a lifelong (or newly founded) dream to metal detect while experiencing a tightly-paced dramatic narrative in an idyllic English countryside.

In anticipation of the release, AMC Games and SundanceTV have produced a new live action vignette that digs into Beth’s back story. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF0sv39jKGI
Thunkd and AMC Games also revealed that BAFTA-nominated composer Kevin Penkin was tapped to compose the game’s original, dynamic score. Penkin is a Melbourne-based composer for videogames and Japanese animation, including music for the hit indie games Florence and Necrobarista.

The Magnificent Trufflepigs
 is the second title from AMC Games, the video game publishing division of AMC Networks. Their first game was 2020’s IGF-nominated flight passenger simulator Airplane Mode, which meticulously recreates the experience of real-time commercial flight, presenting players with randomized events to create an endlessly re-playable experience for flight enthusiasts and content creators alike.

Learn more about The Magnificent Trufflepigs and Airplane Mode on the AMC Games website here: https://games.amc.com/.

About Thunkd

Thunkd is a new, independent, video game developer that wants to become synonymous with high-quality, short-form, ‘evening-sized’ games and experiences. Formed by Andrew Crawshaw, a games industry veteran with credits in multiple award-winning titles, Thunkd believes there is a sizeable audience that wants high-quality titles, that they know they can play from start to finish, without consuming what little leisure time they have.

About AMC Games

AMC Games is the video game publishing division of AMC Networks, with operations based in New York City. Their first game was 2020’s acclaimed flight-passenger simulator Airplane Mode, which meticulously recreated the experience of real-time commercial flight, presenting players with randomized flight events to create an endlessly re-playable experience for flight enthusiasts and content creators alike. The Magnificent Trufflepigs is the second title from AMC Games.

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