All Haul the King needs at least one friend. Housefire’s online co-op platformer takes 2 to 4 players, and the Swedish studio announced on November 12 that it launches on Steam on Friday, January 22, 2027, for $7.99. It is a PC exclusive, and the store page lists online co-op without mentioning local play, crossplay or dedicated servers. It launches in English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
The Goblin King is dead, and your crew plays his goblin underlings. The job is to drag his huge body through ruined battlefields and fiery volcanoes to the Throne of Resurrection. Along the way the group has to keep him from falling into the abyss below. The levels add puzzles and obstacles, and the king is, in Housefire’s words, “really, REALLY big.”
Feeding the dead king is how you move him
The odd part is the king’s stomach. You feed him stars, flowers, animals and anything else you can find, including each other, and his body reacts. What he eats changes how you get him over the next hurdle. Co-founder Emil Forsén says the fruits and animals are there to help move the king and to prank your friends. “Well, it might, but they’ll respawn,” he adds, about whether a little ribbing hurts anyone.
Respawns settle the pranks. They do not settle who keeps feeding the king the slowest goblin. That is the whole design, as far as I can read it: four people pulling one floppy body, and the shortcuts double as ways to mess with a friend.
Housefire is six developers led by Emil and Max, and it co-publishes the game with Isle of Strays, according to the Steam listing. This one is a sharp turn for them. Their last game, Eclipsium, was a 2024 psychological horror game. The studio says it now makes games where play between friends tells the story, which is a fair description of dragging a corpse through a volcano.
At $7.99 and with a single premise, this reads like a night with the crew, not a server you keep running for months. It fits the warm-up slot, the game you play while the last person downloads the main event. A demo is on Steam now, so (adds it to the Friday poll) the crew can find out who drops the king first.
