352 Interactive Announces SCREW IT!, An 8-Player Steam Party Game
The bidding mechanic turns the usual trivia loss into a public bluff, and the announced Japanese interface and subtitles signal the studio is aiming the Steam release at a Japanese audience from the start.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
352 Interactive announced SCREW IT! for Steam on October 10. The 4-8 player voice chat party game sets players as contestants on a late-1980s betting quiz show, where they bid on how many answers they can give to prompts such as naming capital cities in 30 seconds. Release is scheduled for Q4 2026 with a Japanese interface and subtitles.
Players bid on how many answers they can give to a prompt, anyone can raise the number, and the last person to declare when someone presses the button has to attempt it on the mic in front of the whole lobby. The other players judge the attempt, and failure brings penalties such as a helium voice or a mosaic-blurred face. Side bets and sabotage cards let the rest of the lobby interfere, and every few rounds the stage becomes an arcade for minigames including a shooting challenge and whack-a-mole, with the last remaining players finishing in a volleyball championship match.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.