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Breakfall · Local Multiplayer · Sep 29, 2014

Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.

At $11.99. We haven't seen it on sale.

89%
Very Positive
706 player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Multiplayer: 97 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Co-op: 26 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 17 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews

Based on 706 player reviews · updated 5 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
63% of themes are praise37% are divided0% are caveats
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
A casual game with extremely limited content that may only be enjoyable as a local multiplayer party diversion, and nothing else.
97 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Co-op
Players who bring up Co-op mostly praise it.
Is it worth the money, considering there are far better couch co-op/versus games out there?
26 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
+Interesting in-your-face psycodelic art style
17 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Controls
Players who bring up Controls mostly praise it.
It has good ps3 controller compatibility but only annoying thing is the controls that you have to do in the menu.
16 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
> Great soundtrack!
8 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Multiplayer97 reviews
Co-op26 reviews
Graphics17 reviews
Controls16 reviews
Audio8 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Gameplay32 reviews
69%
Combat11 reviews
82%
Story and characters7 reviews
57%
Players complain% still recommend

No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 4 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Full price

Currently $11.99. We haven't seen it on sale yet.

3 points recordedtoday · $11.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
89%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
22
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.