History VideoGame / Foamstars

* AllLovingHeroine: Soa.

* GadgeteerGenius: Tonix.

* AllLovingHeroine: Soa .

* AnimalTalk: Penny Gwyn, who was raised by penguins, can understand penguin and otter speak. Tonix can as well, due to having invented a translator.

* FusionDance: In the ??? mission added for Season 3, [[spoiler:the boss fight is a fusion of Coiff Guy and Dark Ramzey who fell asleep ''again'' despite the special brew made by Mr. Vegas which results is Dark Ramzey wearing Coiff's afro and more disco-related attacks in the boss.]]

* AnimalMotifs: All of the characters have traits and elements based on their unique bubble buddy companion animal, the most obvious two being ∆GITO based on a shark and Penny Gwyn based on, well, [[CaptainObvious a penguin.]]

-->'''[[spoiler:Ramzey]]''': [[spoiler:Did I.. Did I do this? Have I been baaad? Oh my fluffiness! I am so sorry!]]

''Foamstars'' has three multiplayer gameplay modes: Smash the Star, Happy Bath Survival, and Rubber Duck Party, with the latter two being timed modes that rotate in-and-out of availability every 30 minutes. Smash the Star is effectively team deathmatch, with each team having a pool of seven lives. Once a team loses all their lives, their best-performing member is labeled as the "star player", with the match ending once a team's star player is "chilled". Happy Bath Survival sees each team have two members duking it out in the arena, while the remaining members act as support from outside the battlefield. Rubber Duck Party sees players fight over a giant rubber duck in an attempt to escort it into the other player's base, and players are able to make it move faster by dancing on its head. Each character also has their own single-player story missions where they battle enemies in a MultiMookMelee.

''Foamstars'' has three gameplay modes: Smash the Star, Happy Bath Survival, and Rubber Duck Party, with the latter two being timed modes that rotate in-and-out of availability every 30 minutes. Smash the Star, the main multiplayer mode, is effectively team deathmatch, with each team having a pool of seven lives. Once a team loses all their lives, their best-performing member is labeled as the "star player", with the match ending once a team's star player is "chilled". Happy Bath Survival sees each team have two members duking it out in the arena, while the other two act as support from outside the battlefield. Rubber Duck Party sees players fight over a giant rubber duck, each team trying to escort it into the other player's base, and players are able to make it more faster by dancing on its head.

''Foamstars'' is a competitive 4v4 online party shooter developed by Creator/SquareEnix for the Platform/PlayStation4 and Platform/PlayStation5. The game initially released on February 6th, 2024 exclusively for [=PlayStation=] Plus subscribers as part of the service's free "Monthly Games" list, before being made available as a paid title for all [=PlayStation=] owners on March 5th.

In the city of Bath Vegas, people known as the Foamstars get together to have a party in which they shoot foam all over the place and fight in the Foamstars Glorious Party to compete in various forms of objective-based combat. Foam covers the ground and can even stack, creating walls that can be hidden behind or surfed up with a surfboard. When a player gets covered with foam, almost like they're stuck inside a giant snowball, they become marked as a target for players on the same team to either save or players from the other team to "chill" by smacking them with their surfboards, causing them to roll like a snowball until they crash into something.

The modes include a tower control mode with a giant rubber ducky serving as the tower, and a team deathmatch in which receiving seven deaths results in a player for that team becoming the "star" who has extra power and must be taken out by the other team.

Gameplay-wise, ''Foamstars'' acts as something of an AlternateCompanyEquivalent to Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' series, blending that franchise's more literal approach to territory control with the framework of a {{Hero Shooter}} and the presentation of titles like ''VideoGame/KnockoutCity''. Oh, and an eclectic jazz soundtrack that wouldn't be out of place in the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' series.

* RewardsPass: In rare example from a non-"free-to-play" game, ''Foamstars'' has both a free tier and a paid Platinum tier.

* RevenueEnhancingDevices:

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: This is part of Soa's backstory. Her body naturally produces foam, and she spent her childhood feeling like a freak because of it, eventually becoming a recluse. It wasn't until she met a child who expressed that she'd love to make bubbles too when she grew up that she gained self-confidence and soon found herself on the path of becoming a pop star.

In the city of Bath Vegas, people known as the Foamstars get together to have a party in which they shoot foam all over the place and fight in the Foamsmash Tournament to compete in various forms of objective-based combat. Foam covers the ground and can even stack, creating walls that can be hidden behind or surfed up. When a player gets covered with foam, they become marked as a target for players on the same team to either save or players from the other team to "chill."

* RaisedByWolves: Penny Gwyn was discovered in the wild, floating in a basket, by penguins, who raised her to be a warrior who fights against climate change on their behalf.