

With everything from animal suits to SWAT outfits, the possibilities are limitless. You start by picking up your base color from a vibrant selection, and then you can get on with choosing your clothes. Gang Beasts lets you customize your round-headed ragdoll with all sorts of stylish outfits. So, with a nice level playing field, how exactly are you supposed to get one up on your friends? The answer is simple: style. From there, you just have to fight their attempts to escape and hope you don’t get pulled into a fiery pit along with them (if that does happen, though, you can still win if you’re the last one to hit the bottom). The best anyone trying to win can hope for is being able to land a blow that knocks your friend’s character out for long enough so that you can pick them up. There are no combos anyone can bust out to ruin everyone else’s fun. But soon enough you’ll learn the ins-and-outs of grabbing and punching each other, and once you do that, there’s nothing left to learn, so everyone is even. For the first few rounds, you’ll all be aimlessly walking at each other and falling off the scenery, leaving victory to the last person able to stay on the map. Speaking of the controls, they’re certainly something to get used to.

Or you know, just play some football, which is definitely as easy as it sounds as the controls really lend themselves to it (that bit of sarcasm aside, it’s genuinely great fun as a game mode). And you’ll be able to experience the joy of unadulterated wackiness across more than 20 maps, all with various ways to throw your friends to their doom. So, whether you’re the kind of person who takes pleasure in dangling your friend’s brightly-colored ragdoll body over a grinder, or you just enjoy throwing your ragdoll character into the path of an oncoming subway car and watching them get launched across the map, Gang Beasts has something for you and all of your friends. There’s even a team mode called Waves where you all work together to fight off, well, waves of enemies. The pure and simple chaos and the wacky physics mean that you can enjoy endless fun that’s only ever as competitive as you make it. Gang Beasts is the perfect game for when it’s just you and a few friends trying to relax. In fact, it's not even close to being all it's good for. After all, its chaotic nature makes it a perfect game for making that kind of content. Now, if you’re someone who pays attention to what streamers and lets players are enjoying, then you probably caught wind of Gang Beasts a little while ago.
