You can throw a left or right jab, but the same buttons can also be used to grab hold of people, railings, cones, girders or ledges. It’s weirdly hard to land a regular kick, but combine it with a jump at the right time and you can knock an opponent flying. Though they’re not one-button simple, the controls are intuitive, and offer a broader moveset than you might first think. Boneloaf’s clumsy, tottering avatars are deliberately awkward to control, and the scraps play out like drunken altercations at chucking-out time – all missed headbutts, amateurish grappling and the occasional lucky haymaker laying someone out cold.

Double Fine might claim it’s “in the style of Streets of Rage or Double Dragon”, but it makes those creaky arcade hits look like models of precision and refinement.

In case you’ve managed to miss it during its three years in Early Access, or at the dozens of gaming events at which it’s been showcased, Gang Beasts pits a group of wobbly fighters against one another across a variety of compact arenas.

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