Games Like SplatStick

A party fighter for 2–6 players, at one computer or online. Two share the keyboard, everyone else picks up a gamepad, and bots take any empty seat — the match starts even if a friend is running late. A fighter has two bars, and they work differently. Health simply runs out. Damage piles up and decides how far the next hit sends you. There are two ways to take someone out — finish them off or throw them off the edge — and late in a round the second one is usually faster.

The fighting

Attack, heavy attack on hold, grab and throw, shield, roll. Shield at the last moment to parry. In the air: double jump, dash on a double tap of a direction, push off a wall. Miss the ledge and you can hang on and climb back — but while you hang, everyone can see you. Item crates drop on their own. Inside there might be a medkit, power, a star or a speed boost — or a rifle, shotgun, bazooka, grenade launcher, laser, freeze ray, boomerang, knife, bomb, mine, anvil or black hole. Barrels explode in chains, and plank bridges get blown apart piece by piece.

12 modes

11 arenas

The arena gets in everyone's way equally: low gravity, meteor shower, item rain, earthquake, gale, black ice. Every event is announced by a banner a few seconds ahead: enough time to run, not enough to finish someone off. Mutators change a whole match: low gravity, one hit, bombs only, big heads.

Local and online

Up to six at one computer: everyone takes a seat by pressing a button on their own side of the keyboard or on their own gamepad. Online for up to six: 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 or free-for-all. The host picks the mode and the map, and bots fill the empty seats. Windows and macOS. English, Russian, Spanish and Simplified Chinese.