Angry Birds Epic was released by Rovio in 2014 as a turn based role playing spin off of the Angry Birds series, developed with Chimera Entertainment. Unlike the physics puzzle games, it focused on party battles, crafting and turn based attacks against the pigs, with short impact effects marking each hit. This mid hit variant stayed in sound collections and editing libraries because its clean cartoon thud works outside the original battles for gaming edits, parodies and slapstick scenes.