Following courses based on the Jim Henson Company’s Labyrinth, Cyan’s Myst and Meow Wolf, Mighty Coconut is pushing the limits of its immersive multiplayer game tech with its latest Walkabout Mini Golf DLC collaboration: Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit. Featuring 10 times the amount of animation of any previous course, this title brings players into the gadget, creature and gag-filled world of 62 West Wallaby Street.
Both Mighty Coconut and Aardman share their excitement for the mini golf adventure to feel like a real piece of the Wallace & Gromit universe. Aardman not only licensed the rights to 62 West Wallaby Street, Wallace, Gromit and Feathers McGraw along with gadgets from several of their award winning films, but Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park even contributed sketches for mini golf hole ideas. In addition, the course features the voice of Ben Whitehead, who has been the voice actor for Wallace since Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures (2009).
The new course release comes at a time when Mighty Coconut is adding an increasing amount of content and experiences to each release, including new game modes, avatar packs, and forthcoming surprise features.
The new Walkabout Mini Golf: Wallace & Gromit course released today (Thursday, July 25), featuring 18 easy mode and hard mode holes, specially designed lost balls to collect, a commemorative in-game putter and themed avatars. But unlike the 26 courses before it, Walkabout Mini Golf: Wallace & Gromit will also invite players to use (or avoid) a litany of themed contraptions from the minds of Wallace and Gromit to make their putts under par.
Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit were introduced in Nick Park’s 1989’s Academy Award-nominated A Grand Day Out, and have since appeared in four other films — including The Wrong Trousers, which won 13 awards including the Academy Award for best short film. The claymation duo have won over 100 awards at festivals around the world, including three Academy Awards and five BAFTA Awards. Their first VR experience, Wallace & Gromit in The Grand Getaway, co-produced by Aardman and Atlas V in association with No Ghost and Albyon and distributed by Astrea, has just been nominated for a 2024 Emmy Award in the Outstanding Emerging Media Program category.
The new course will be available for $3.99 USD/£3.16 pound sterling as an add-on to Walkabout Mini Golf (on Meta Quest 2/Pro/3, PlayStation VR2, Steam, and PICO platforms (and soon on iOS devices via Walkabout Mini Golf: Pocket Edition). Mighty Coconut has announced that there are still three more courses coming in 2024 to be followed by Walkabout Mini Golf: Viva Las Elvis in early 2025 as part of a full slate of releases in 2025. Many more modes and features are also starting to show up in the game along with licensed cosmetic packs including ones themed to Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal and Exploding Kittens.
Mighty Coconut launched Walkabout Mini Golf on the Meta Quest in the fall of 2020 and it has steadily grown to be a player favorite and system seller, with a nearly perfect five-star rating with over 12,000 reviews on Meta Quest, making it the best-rated multiplayer game on Quest and Steam platforms as well as a top 10 selling PlayStation VR2 title since launch. Player engagement boasts a 2-Hour Usage Rate for more than 50% of users (around 10 times the standard). Hundreds of thousands of intergenerational players from over 40 countries meet in the game regularly.
