How many players? 1 to 4
What console(s) is it available on? PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, PC
Let’s take a break from all the co-op games for a bit and focus on some good ol’ competitive platform fighting! You can think of Stick Fight as like Super Smash Bros. except made with a budget of nine bucks, hence why everything is a very simple shape and line and you can get through everything the game has to over in about an hour. However, as I have said before with Just Shapes & Beats, Stick Fight may look simple but it is capable of oh so much more than it looks.
Stick Fight involves jumping, slapping each other with the most spindly physics you’ll ever see this side of the console wars, guns that barely have the accuracy to hit the broad side of a barn their barrels are pressed into, and several dozen stages based on about five or six themes. Playing Stick Fight is like slapping dolls together if they were also armed with weapons. The noodle-like physics and loose aiming controls would doom any other game to awful reviews but, here, they make for a very fun and chaotic experience that’s sure to make you laugh from the sheer silliness of it all.
It’s also really cheap. It may not be the most substantial fighting game on the market, or even the most sophisticated, but my brother and I always go back to this time and again because it’s just so much fun that’s so accessible and easy to pick up without being a massive time commitment; you turn on the console, you start up the game, and you’re right in and slapping each other without delay. Or shooting each other. Or trying to with a shotgun but you miss and the recoil blasts you out of bounds.