For some reason, double-tapping B deploys a vicious head-butt. Y lifts a held object (almost always another player) above your head. X and B are responsible for ducking and a half-assed kick, respectively. Pushing the A button jumps, but only when the button is released. Holding down the same shoulder button turns your arm into glue.

Tapping the left and right shoulder button issues a left or right punch. Gang Beasts, which was first released to early access in 2014 at the peak of this phenomenon, seeks to apply this principle to an arena-based fighting game. Surgeon Simulator, Octodad, and Job Simulatorpleased a remote audience as well as they entertained a local player, but this trend felt stale by the time the wrapping came off in I am Bread. Obfuscating control in the pursuit of creative anarchy is a proven, if not rapidly decaying, approach to game design. The eventual product is Gang Beasts, a multiplayer brawler more interested in coddling chaos than honing control. Inspire it with the will to live and the instinct to destroy. Insert it into a dangerous arena with three companion abominations.

Shape the wreckage into an anthropomorphic body, and somehow keep the limited points of articulation. Melt down an action figure to its primordial goo.

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