Grove Street Games Bets on BeastLink With Destructible Cities and Multiplayer Kaiju Battles

Grove Street Games is preparing to release BeastLink, a multiplayer kaiju action game built around large scale destruction, competitive modes, and the chance to control giant creatures during battle. The studio is best known for porting and remastering established games, including Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, but BeastLink is a very different project. It is a new original property designed to give players both human combat and monster combat in the same match.

The game takes place in a damaged world where people survive inside scattered strongholds while enormous Beasts dominate ruined cities. Players begin as humans, collecting resources, fighting enemy teams, and building enough progress to link with a dormant kaiju. Once linked, they can take control of a giant creature and destroy much of the map around them.

BeastLink is expected to enter early access on PC later this year. Grove Street Games has not announced a final date or price, but the studio has said it will be priced as an indie game rather than a full $60 release.

BeastLink focuses on destruction that affects the whole match

The main feature is the studio’s SuperDestruction system. Grove Street Games says each map can include more than 250,000 destructible objects, split into millions of smaller pieces. Buildings, streets, vehicles, and other structures can break apart as players attack them with weapons, vehicles, or kaiju abilities.

The goal is not simply to create visual chaos. Destruction can change how a match plays out by opening new paths, removing cover, or forcing teams to move into different areas. The studio has had to limit some smaller debris interactions to keep the action stable online, but larger collapses and structural changes are meant to remain synchronized for everyone in a match.

Humans can fight Beasts, but teamwork will matter

Beasts are designed to be difficult to defeat with normal weapons. A single player on foot will have limited options against one, but teams can combine vehicles, air support, and coordinated attacks to challenge them.

The game will avoid a simple humans versus monsters setup in its main competitive modes. Instead, both teams will have the same ability to become Beasts. This approach should make matches easier to balance, since one side will not permanently have access to overwhelming creatures while the other side only uses conventional weapons.

Grove Street Games plans to cap early access matches at 24 players while it tests server performance. The long term target is 32 players, although the studio has said that larger matches may depend on map layout and how crowded the game feels during active battles.

Grove Street Games is taking a cautious approach to early access

The studio has ambitious plans, but it is also trying to avoid launching with systems that are too unstable. Three fully destructible maps are planned for early access, with six to eight maps being considered for the full release.

A single player mode is also planned, though it will use scenario based missions built from the multiplayer systems rather than a large cinematic campaign. The studio has suggested that a more traditional story campaign could be possible in a future sequel if BeastLink performs well.

BeastLink has a difficult task ahead. Multiplayer destruction games are expensive and technically demanding, especially when giant creatures, vehicles, and collapsing buildings must work together online. Still, Grove Street Games is clearly trying to move beyond its reputation as a porting studio and build something that has a stronger identity of its own.