Moylo on Steam: Bugle Duck shows hand-drawn action game without release date
In brief
- Moylo is an in-development Steam game from Bugle Duck with rubber-hose art, melee combat, and boss fights. No release date yet.
- The game is described as a hand-drawn action game with a rubber-hose style, melee combat, and boss fights.
- According to GameRant, the first trailer reached nearly two million views in just a few days.
What happened
Moylo is listed on Steam as a project from developer and publisher Bugle Duck, but it does not have a release date yet. On its Steam page, the game is marked as "To be announced," which means no launch day has been set. The Steam listing also names Bugle Duck as both developer and publisher, and the page still does not include a final release date or launch window.
The Steam description calls Moylo a classic hand-drawn action game with melee combat and intense boss fights. SteamDB summarizes that description as a frame-by-frame animated game in a rubber-hose style, inspired by cartoons from the 1930s and 1940s. That summary also mentions a world swallowed by the shadow of death, matching the dark tone of the game’s early descriptions.
GameRant wrote that Moylo was quickly compared to a mix of Cuphead and Hollow Knight. That comparison is mainly about the presentation and the first impression of the gameplay, not an official genre label from Bugle Duck. The same coverage calls Moylo a new 2D platformer on Steam, while other descriptions focus on action, melee combat, and boss battles. As a result, the exact genre classification is still open for now.
Timeline
19 September 2026: Bugle Duck releases the first trailer or teaser for Moylo, bringing the game into wider view on social media and news sites.
21 September 2026: GameRant reports that Moylo is on Steam without a release date and that the trailer has reached nearly two million views within days of publication.
21 September 2026: The Steam page still shows the status "To be announced," while SteamDB describes the game as a hand-drawn rubber-hose action game with melee combat and boss battles.
Background
The current information paints Moylo as a game still deep in development. Alongside melee combat and boss fights, the game is also said to feature explorable gothic maps and unlockable abilities, though those elements have not yet been confirmed as final. The available descriptions also point to a dark fantasy setting, while the visual style leans heavily on classic animation from the 1930s and 1940s.
According to the reporting, Bugle Duck’s official channel said Moylo is "for now more focused on boss fights." That suggests the studio is emphasizing boss encounters at this stage, while the rest of the structure may still change. That lines up with trailer descriptions mentioning multiple bosses with striking, Disney-like designs, although that remains a journalistic description of the footage shown.
The comparison to Cuphead and Hollow Knight appears in multiple descriptions, but for now it remains a way of describing the style and tone. GameRant linked the comparison to the first trailer, while an X post from the official Moylo account refers to how people had already labeled the game as "Cuphead × Hollow Knight." That post also says the comparison brought immediate attention, leading to 1,000 wishlists, 1,500 new followers, and 170K Instagram impressions from a single post.
The available sources show that interest in Moylo grew quickly after the teaser appeared. GameRant reported nearly two million views in a few days, while TechTimes described the first teaser as a reveal of a frame-by-frame dark fantasy action game on Steam. For now, the only hard fact is that neither Steam nor the reporting gives a release date, and the game is still listed as "To be announced."
Sources
- Moylo Steam page
- Moylo SteamDB page
- GameRant: "New 2D Platformer Game on Steam Is Basically Cuphead Meets Hollow Knight"
- TechTimes: article on Moylo’s first teaser
- Official Bugle Duck YouTube channel