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Square x Square

Battle friends in 2D arenas with looping edges, random power-ups, and over a thousand loadout combinations

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Developer
HackoonDev
Publisher
Unknown
Release
September 6, 2017
8 years and 331 days ago
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Positive21 reviews85.7%

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About the Game

About:


Square x Square is a local multiplayer game for 2 to 4 players.
  • There are 12 hats, 12 weapons and 12 abilities to be chosen, totalizing 1,728 possible combinations.
  • Every hat and weapon have a different status (attack, defense and speed) that directly interfere in their in-game status.
  • Your chosen ability has a passive effect that helps you in the game.
  • There are 3 different types of weapons: melee, short range and long range. Every type has a different playability. There are also weapons with special effects such as slowness, critical damage, and a weapon with a unique mechanic.
  • Every arena has loops on the sides (goes in through one side and comes out through the other).
  • Every arena spawns a box that generates random events for the match. These events can be good, bad or neutral.
  • There's a team mode to play 2x2.

Mechanics:


Some of the events:
  • The player that collects the box receives explosive troop that'll help them.
  • Every player gets 999 attack damge. Only one hit can defeat any other player.
  • Double the speed to all players.
  • Double the attack to all players.
  • Increased attack to whoever collects the box.
  • Every player receives damage by the second.
  • Jumping on another player's head will defeat them.
  • Randomizes all weapons and helmets of every player.
  • Every player has their position switched periodically.
  • Infinite jump.
  • Screen gets completely black periodically.
Here are just some of the events. So far the games has more than 30 random events.

Controls:
  • Keyboard 1 - W, A, S, D, Space, N, M
  • Keyboard 2 - Up, Down, Left, Right, 0*, 2*, 3* (numpad)
  • Joystick- Analogic/Arrows, A, X, Y
Players' abilities:
  • Run
  • Jump - Double jump
  • Attack in 4 directions (up, down, left and right)
  • Stun other players when falling on their while they're mid jump
  • Shove players when attacking them
  • Get pushed upwards when attacking downwards while falling
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