LOS PINGHEROS / Press Kit

Los Pingheros is a multiplayer fighting game that can host up to 8 players online and locally. Dive into the vibrant colors of Mexico, draped in a unique snowy mantle, and engage in the action alone or with your friends. Your goal will be to become the ultimate Pinghero by knocking your opponents out of the arena using the snow!

🌶️ Intense Brawl Modes

Prepare yourself for thrilling and diverse confrontations across a variety of modes, where only the most cunning penguins emerge victorious:

Carnaval: This new mode empowers you to turbocharge your Pinghero with additional skills, ensuring an ever-escalating action and strategy.
Score Spree: Secure victory by dominating the scoreboard within the time limit.
The Last Pinghero: Beware, your lives are limited and only the last penguin standing will be declared the overall winner.

🐧 Secret Penguin Techniques:

Access to the penguin's top survival tricks: the ultimate slide, the renowned penguin spinning top, and the celebrated "Made in Penguin" chokeslam, where your opponent definitely won't be pretending.

🌵 Outsmart Your Opponents:

Destroy the cacti to uncover power-ups. Be smart on how you use them! Keep an eye on the luchador mask that enrages your penguin, and game-changing items like the magic snowflake to freeze all other penguins to the bone.

💃 The Mexican Dressing Room:

Customize your penguins to reflect your unique style. As you progress, you unlock new clothing, hats, and color palettes.

🦈 You are not alone:

Watch out for your webbed feet ! In Mexico, you won't be alone. Slide in the wrong place and you might get bitten.

❄️ Los Pingheros in a nutshell:

🐧 Up to 8 players local, online, or mixed

🐧 Play free for all or team with friends

🐧 Unique Snowy Mexican setting

🐧 Our special Skill Mode

🐧 Score and Battle Royale modes

🐧 Destruct and construct the environment

🐧 Unlock customization for your penguin as you progress

⌨️ About Developer

Hectiq is a new video game development studio established in early 2023, in Bordeaux, France.

The 4 founders are industry veterans who met while working on Microsoft Flight Simulator at Asobo Studio (91% Metacritic and +10 millions players). The team now consists of 9 members.

Hectiq was created with the aim of developing unique and captivating games across various genres, focusing on creativity, playability, and technical innovation.

Hectiq is currently working on its first game: Los Pingheros, a snowball fight game with penguins in Mexico.