The winner is often, by default, the only person who didn't trip over their own feet - but that doesn't make it any less fun in Local Play, because the fun is the chaos.
Most matches end because people struggle to keep their jellyboys upright, let alone managing to punch anyone else off a ferris wheel. You can, of course, punch, kick, and headbutt your opponents, knocking them out and giving you a window of time in which to lob them into said obstacles, but you're just as likely to accidentally fall onto train tracks, or off the scaffolding, yourself. Each level has various obstacles - from meat grinders to, er, massive flaps in the floor that keep being opened by large, falling sausages - and the game is more about constantly avoiding these perils than it is about fighting. It's why people love Gang Beasts so much: the floppy ragdoll punching that skyrocketed this bone-free game into the public eye. There are two options: Local Play, and Online Play, as well as various modes, including Melee, Gangs, Football, and Waves. It's not a particularly graphically demanding game, and everything, from its mechanics to its menus, is pretty simple. Four years after its official release on PC, Xbox One, and PS4, it's finally reached the Switch - which we'd argue is the home of party games. It was out in Early Access for years, beginning in 2014, and chances are that if you've played it, it may well have been that EA version.
It's strange, then, that it's taken such a long time to come to the Nintendo Switch. Gang Beasts is a chaotic, wonky physics brawler that relies on the utter incomp-itude of its players to create mirth and merriment, and much like a massive chocolate cake or a puppy, it's always been a huge success whenever we've pulled it out at parties. In the Party Game Hall of Fame, Gang Beasts is one of the OG big dogs, alongside Nidhogg, Jackbox, and Overcooked.
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