Squishy Sports is currently the best multiplayer sports game I have ever played, and I don’t really like sports games. Their characters bring so much personality to the simplistic rounds of various games.
Squishy Sports is a physics-based couch co-op party game where you get to play some simple versions of sports that mainly just involve hitting a ball back and forth to the different sides of the screen. I’ve played a lot of different sports games that use these themes, but none of them have ever added the amount of personality that the developers, Made by Titans, have here.
For characters, you get to pick from a bunch of different, super colorful shapes. These shapes all have their own silly taunts, wonderful animations, and somehow, relatable personalities. Squishy Sports is a great example of a ‘juicy’ game, from the animations on these characters to the large explosions of colorful confetti that appear when you have scored a point. When picking these characters, you can also select an ability (I quite like the dash, personally) that charges up and can be used in matches.
Once everyone has picked their shapes, you can pick which game mode you want to play. In the version I got to play at GAMAYO, I enjoyed playing basketball, soccer, and volleyball, but my favorite game mode was the table tennis version of the game. In it, you really just had a massive object in the way, so you couldn’t really get close to the ball (it had nothing to do with the rules of table tennis to tell you the truth, which made it so much better).
Squishy Sports is one of those straightforward games that are just so polished, there is no way you can not enjoy it. All of the rounds are easy to understand, pick up, and play. I hope to see this game come to Nintendo Switch, personally.
Squishy Sports is currently in development, but in the meantime, you can follow its creation on the game’s site.