For a long time now, local split-screen multiplayer games have been something of a dying breed. Be it because of the internet being almost all-encompassing now or people just hanging out in person less often, these sorts of games, at least in the AAA space , aren’t made as much. However, as Devolver Digital and Peculiar Pixels have shown today in revealing BOTSU, the genre, thankfully, isn’t dead yet.
Offering both online team play and up to four-player local split-screen multiplayer, BOTSU offers fans of cartoonish mayhem and hijinks the chance to challenge their friends in physics-based robo-sports. Physics-based games usually tend to have a slow pace, but, as the reveal trailer below shows, BOTSU is anything but slow.
Once it releases later this year, BOTSU will offer players three distinct battle sports to compete in with their friends. The objective is different in each mode, but they all require players to make the best possible use of their bot’s full suite of moves, like sprinting, jumping, flipping, climbing and more, in order to secure victory. More might come later on, but at first it will just be “Box-Ball,” “Stockpile” and “Sumo Survival” that...
