Stick Fight: The Game (2017)

Stick Fight: The Game is a fun little distraction, played from your couch on a Friday night with some friends.

The game is exactly like the title says. A fight with Stick Man figures. You battle each other in different arenas while picking up weapons (melee and ranged) to obliterate your opponents, you push them into the abys below or simply blow them up by shooting a barrel behind them.

There are swords, pistols, rifles, bazooka's, lasers and many more instruments of death to unleash on your enemies.

The last player standing wins the round and earns a point. The player with the most points win. Rince and repeat.

The graphics are simple and consists of crates, ledges and Stick Figures. The animations and framerate, however, are butter smooth.

The sound is nothing special.

Control wise, Stick Fight: The Game shines. Every movement and action feel responsive, and you are in total control of your little Stick Man. If you fail, that's on you.

For its low price, I say that this is a good value, and I would recommend it to everyone for some quick fun and action.

I found this game in a youtube video from my favourite youtuber and It seemed like tons of fun. I bought it for 1$ in a Humble Bundle with two other games I never even touched and I can tell you, that it was the most well spent 1$ in my life. This is a 4 player stick-man platformer death match game where literally anything can happen.

• Weapons of mass destruction falling in your lap from the sky: Check
• Lightsabers, laser guns, teleport knives and a black hole gun: Check
• Blocking gunshots with your bare hands, because you are that cool: Check
• Throwing a sword at the guy who thinks he is Arnold Schwarzenegger: Check
• Mega punches: Check
• Shotgun recoil throwing you off the map, that was already falling apart: Check
• Destructible ice blocks that fall on your head: Check
• Lava rivers and floating platforms: Check
• Boss fights: Check
• Snakes, flying snakes, snake guns and a snake bazooka: Oh yes
• Tons of custom maps that you can dowload easily: Check
• And even more bugs, invicility glitches, lag and floating enemies: Check, but who cares, as long as you are having fun. And trust me, you will!

It's the perfect game to play when you are bored of everything else or just want to have some quick fun. The rounds are short and the vic(o)torius will be rewarded with 3 enemies trying to take their crown. Let 'em come!

Stick Fight: The Game is probably one of the most simple and straight-forward titles I've ever reviewed. In this physics-based fighting game, each player, represented by a stick figure, is dropped into an arena and battles to the death with an assortment of random weapons that fall from the sky. The controls are exceptionally simple for a fighting game; the only moves are run, jump, and attack. Players defeat each other by either dealing enough damage to score a kill or knocking each other off the screen. The moment that there is only one stick person left, the arena reconfigures itself and everyone respawns. Repeat.

Despite the simplicity of the game, Stick Fight kept my friends and I glued to our computers for several hours. A combination of three factors makes this seemingly shallow title so entertaining: level variety, unpredictability, fluidity.

• The level design in Stick Fight is the game's strongest feature. Each time the stage reshuffles, the players are thrown into another set of environmental hazards that can range from lava flows, to explosive barrels, to destructible ice platforms. There are probably about fifty different stage layouts and the key to victory is quickly figuring out how to use the environment to your advantage.
• Nothing in Stick Fight ever plays out exactly as you would expect. Sometimes just the right weapon lands at your feet to give you the upper hand. Th next thing you know, you're firing that weapon at your enemies and the absurdly strong recoil causes you to ricochet off a series of explosive barrels to your doom. Every once in awhile a brazen unarmed stick person can rush into a barrage of bullets and land a knock-out punch on a heavily armed foe. A few seconds later, a stray bullet might topple a stack of crates that crush the triumphant pugilist. Some guns fire angry snakes instead of bullets. Anything can happen in a bout of Stick Fight and it's hilarious.
• The flow from one match to the next is seamless. Bitter about that last round where your victory was snatched from you at the last second? In a few seconds, the next round will begin and you'll forget all about it! Each battle usually lasts no more than a few seconds and after a quick flash of text acknowledges the winner, the next round begins immediately.

Stick Fight is one of those games that you and your friends will find yourself saying "just one more round"... and then you look up at the clock and realize that whole hour has gone by. Eventually, you'll see every level, weapon, and zany outcome that can happen in a match, but in the meantime, you'll have had several hours of laughs with your friends and have more than gotten your $5 out of the game. I'd highly recommend Stick Fight to those looking for a fun multiplayer game that they don't have to take too seriously.