{"id":63758,"date":"2014-04-01T16:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T14:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=63758"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:47:01","slug":"gang-beasts-the-game-everyone-wanted-to-play-at-rezzed-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/gang-beasts-the-game-everyone-wanted-to-play-at-rezzed-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang Beasts: the game everyone wanted to play at Rezzed 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/rezzed\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rezzed<\/a> games event in Birmingham UK, while there were a ton of great games, it was <strong>Gang Beasts<\/strong> that most people were talking about on the show floor. It&#8217;s a <strong>four player fighting game<\/strong>, and the great thing is you can play the early alpha version free on Mac or Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Gang Beasts sees four different colored jello-like figures punching and grabbing each other until only one survives. The action takes place in a variety of dangerous locations, like on top of moving trucks, on a window cleaner&#8217;s platform or riding a Ferris wheel. The fun comes from the unwieldy movement of the fighters, who move as if they are made from jello. You can jump, punch and grab, and it&#8217;s grabbing especially that causes a lot of amusement, as you can find yourself being pulled around by other players holding any part of your body.<\/p>\n<p>The difficult movement reminded me of QWOP, the ridiculous flash based running game. The fun comes from how awkward each player is, and the twists and turns that happen during a game. It&#8217;s local multiplayer (you all play on the same PC, not online), which also helps the enjoyment. Even losing is fun.<\/p>\n<p>The game has been &#8216;greenlit&#8217; for release on Steam in the future, but for now you can download an alpha build for Windows and Mac. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiedb.com\/games\/gangbeasts\/downloads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Get the current build here<\/a>. Gang Beasts has already had almost 100,000 downloads, which is impressive for an indie game and the buzz is still growing. Get a few friends around your monitor and try it out.<\/p>\n<p>The Rezzed show has a history of finding indie games that go on to great things &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/hotline-miami\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotline Miami<\/a> first gained popularity after being shown there in 2012.<\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/meet-flockers-the-new-puzzle-game-from-team17\">Meet &#8216;Flockers&#8217;, the new puzzle game from Team17<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/alien-isolation-coming-on-october-7th-2014\">Alien Isolation coming on October 7th 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/dayzs-dean-hall-announces-whats-coming-in-2014\">DayZ&#8217;s Dean Hall announces what&#8217;s coming in 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute;left: -10000px;top: 2px;width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/hotline-miami<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this year&#8217;s Rezzed games event in Birmingham UK, while there were a ton of great games, it was Gang Beasts that most people were talking about on the show floor. It&#8217;s a four player fighting game, and the great thing is you can play the early alpha version free on Mac or Windows. Gang &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/gang-beasts-the-game-everyone-wanted-to-play-at-rezzed-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gang Beasts: the game everyone wanted to play at Rezzed 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2722],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-63758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongang-beasts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331027,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63758\/revisions\/331027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63758"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=63758"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=63758"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=63758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}