What if I told you there was a game that combined Worms, Terraria, and Minecraft – years before those games even existed? And what if you could play it with up to 4 players on one screen? Sounds too good to be true? Then you’ve probably never heard of Clonk!
In this video, I dive deep into the forgotten gem that is Clonk Planet and Clonk Endeavour. From crazy multiplayer chaos to endless modding possibilities, this game was way ahead of its time.
📌 Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
00:27 – History of Clonk
01:26 – Basic Gameplay Loop
02:51 – Scenarios
04:08 – Multiplayer
05:07 – Mods
06:27 – Music
07:51 – Outro
Did someone count how many times I said Clonk?
Play Clonk (Free Download):
Clonk 1-4 + Clonk Planet http://www.clonk.de/classics.php?lng=en
Clonk Rage + Clonk Endeavour: http://www.clonk.de/index.php?lng=en&sec=
Open Clonk https://www.openclonk.org/download/
CCAN (Clonk mod archive) https://ccan.de/
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48 comments
Played the heck out of it with my cousins back then. I'm still hoping someone makes a Switch Port. It could be so awesome. If you are capable and reading this, pls, pls do this. The gamecode is open source.
i'm so glad someone mentioned Clonk. it was so insanely ahead of it's time
Playing this with my brother 20 years ago was a blast. Drop one flint in base and all hell breaks loose
I didn't know about the game until my older brothers had me play Clonk Rage with them in the late 00s and it was a ton of fun!
I think about getting online friends to play it with me sometimes, I would like to revisit it again after 15+ years
The Germans never fail to impress me. Maybe there is something to have little to no emotion and enjoying foot thick walls.
Jokes aside, this game has never come across my screen. Thanks for the info!
omg i played this in my middle schools computer lab
Germans casually overengineering anything possible:
This makes me wish I grew up in Germany so I could have experienced the Clonk golden age lol
I hecking loved clonk planet as a kid
I thought me and my friends were the only ones who knew about the existence of this game. We used to play Clonk Endeavour/Clonk Rage all day after school.
I had no idea about this that's amazing.
cool
King Arthur's Gold seems to take a lot of inspiration from this game.
surprised to see you don't have many videos, subscribed and I hope you keep making more videos in this style!
Finally, after all these years, someone made a video about Clonk. My buddy was obsessed with it back in the day! Good times.
Great video on the game, the only thing I would say about it is that the music is too loud compared to your voice, in the video, at least for my headphones. Anyways keep on keeping on, thanks for showing the game.
@letsdosomething9820
i have been working on a video for a while now on clonk to capitalize on the games rarity and the title i had in the works is even similar to yours…on one hand i am very happy to see the game i love very much get the attention it deserves but at the same time it kinda sucks that you beat me to it in making a video about it…i never made a yt video so it takes a while for me…
i have been playing clonk regularly since it was introduced to me in the 90s it is without a doubt my favorite game of all time.
btw the last round clonk endeavour was against my cousin and went 17 hours…yes 17 hours.
more like dont starve than terraria or minecraft
this makes me think of cortex command, another weird but cool game with destructible environments that no ones heard of, then got abandoned, and now the community has an open source version.
This game looks awesome.
Terraria Clonk mod would go actually crazy
Not related to the video but oh man i need to learn German.. i really like it. Any good book to start learning a bit?
It just now occured to me: You have to right click in the bars to set the Variation, do you (for example in the Weather Screen at 03:33)?
I never managed to do this back in the day but i played an ungodly amount of hours of Clonk Planet and later Clonk Endeavour.
One of my alltime childhood favourite games! 😀👍
I even redid some of the Original Music Tracks (for private use) with LMMS (changing Instruments), since they are just MIDI-Files.
Dude thank you for actually bringing something new on the table Instead of following a simple formula.
I had no idea this existed looks hype
looks fun
bro i downloaded this game years ago and couldnt remember how it was called, kudos!
BROOOOO THANK YOU SO MUCH! My dad used to play this game ALL THE TIME when I was a wee little child. Man, the memories you’ve unlocked for me g
wish more people knew about this back then ;-;
I only ever played Clonk Planet a few times at a friend's house as a kid, but you're absolutely right that it left a huge impact (and a lasting memory) anyway.
Thanks you just unlocked a memory deep in the recesses of my mind
Clint Stevens origin story
Bro me and the boys hotseated this shit back in the day. Was so fun ❤
Great Video. Yeah i hope one day it will get the revival it deserves.^^
very cool video
And I thought Noita was innovative lol
i heavily appreciate people who bring forgotten or obscure games up. i don't want to play new games anymore and i want to go back to playing older and more LOVED games.
The space mission in clonk planet seemed like the hardest videogame level ever to me as a child. I wonder if I could beat it now and if it even was as hard as I thought as a kid
Nice Video! But the Music was a little too loud compard to your voice, I was struggling to understand you sometimes
I learned something today.
You are reaching a lot saying this is like terraria. 💀
damn that’s crazy
Cool video, I never heard of this game before. It's 11 years older than me
more like proto blockheads
Wow, that OST is actually fire, gonna go grab some songs now. Reminds me of Megaman or VVVVVV
Holy shit, I've been looking for this game's name for so long. I remember finding it on some gaming magazine CD with 100 games on it and playing the shit out of it, despite being too young to really get what was going on. Eventually, I somewhat figured out how the economy worked, but could NEVER have explained it to anyone else to play multiplayer.
Would never have expected this game to still have an active community. I thought it was just another piece of unknown German lost media that can now only be found on those old game magazine CDs, like so many other obscure games.
Another German abandonware game from the same disc, that is available online for free now, is Tunnels of the Underworld. A 2002 2D air/space fighting game with destructible terrain, a metric fuckton of weird weapons do destroy it with and REALLY impressive pixel physics for the time, not unlike Noita. In fact, I can't find any info on whether pixel-based physics were even a thing before this game.
I remember playing Clonk Planet and always had that little intro sequence and menu music in my mind. I had no idea what i was doing, but i did know about how to get the more stupid Flints that were basically mini nukes. Good times.
Clonk! I love these games. Always such a fun surprise to see them mentioned anywhere (I think it's less obscure in German-speaking media, but I sadly failed to learn German in university)…I need to check in on what's happened with OpenClonk recently…
Loved Clonk as a kid. Playing it with my brothers on the same keyboard was awesome
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