While music games have become an endangered genre of late, the world’s first trombone-based rhythm music game seems to be completely ignoring that theory. Released just five days ago, Trombone Champ has appeared in the top five selling games on Steam and is becoming so popular that players are now calling for the game to be released on consoles.
Where can I play Trombone Champ?
Trombone Champ is currently available on Steam, where it is sitting in the Top Sellers chart at number five behind much bigger titles like Call of Duty Modern Warfare II, FIFA 23, and Cyberpunk 2077. The game is compatible with Steam Deck where it can be played with gyro functionality, but the game is not available on consoles. ResetEra players are hoping it will come to devices like the Nintendo Switch, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One in the future although developer Holy Wow has not announced any plans for this so far.
While console releases are not in the game’s immediate future, Holy Wow has revealed the game’s content roadmap for their immediate priorities, all of which they’re hoping to be finished for this year. As well as bug fixes and things like “small song adjustments”, these are:
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Track select screen improvements: Adding metadata such as tempo + song length, plus the ability to sort tracks by difficulty, name, etc.
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Accessibility: Adding the ability to reduce flashing, colors, background motion, etc. Also, beginning to add controller support + alternate control methods.
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More songs: Free batches of new songs, most likely released in groups of three. Each batch will contain one “easy” song, to ease the new player experience.
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Score Graph: Optional “pop-up” graph on the score screen that shows how you performed throughout the track.
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Better widescreen support: Making the game experience better with ultra-widescreen monitors.
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Prepping for localization: Updating the codebase so additional language support can be added.
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Mac & Steam Deck: Researching the viability of a Mac release & possibly improving the SteamDeck experience.
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