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Death Stair

Missing the days of split screen multiplayer or wanting to play with actual in-person friends in the same room? Death Stair is a local multiplayer stair climbing game. Play locally with maximum three friends and race to the finish while the fourth, armed to the teeth with an arsenal of unconventional ammo types, does everything to stop...

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Developer
Fun Sponge Games
Publisher
Missing Link Games
Release
August 16, 2016
9 years and 353 days ago
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Mixed288 reviews68.8%

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About the Game

Looking for that new party game to liven things up? Have some friends you don’t want to keep as friends anymore? Death Stair is exactly what you're looking for.

Death Stair is the world’s greatest competitive multiplayer stair climbing game. In local or online play, up to three people race to the finish while the fourth, armed to the teeth with an arsenal of unconventional ammo types, does everything to stop them. Death Stair takes competitive multiplayer to new extremes with ridiculous ragdoll physics and ludicrous 3v1 asymmetrical gameplay! Will you hate the player or hate the game in this chaotic ordeal designed to make friends into enemies.

Features include:

  • Dig your elbows in with up to 4 player split screen
  • Full online support means you can destroy your long distance relationships too
  • A combination of 1st and 3rd person Action
  • Exact revenge on your friends in a new way every match with our All-New Party Mode with more than 200 Million possible match outcomes!
  • Take to the stairs or to the skies in a variety of detailed environments
  • Full controller support for that classic party game feeling
  • Original Soundtrack composed the legendary Matthew A.C Cohen
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