Stick It To The Stickman Leaves Early Access On Steam
The jump from roughly 200 to over 2,000 concurrent players on release day, plus an Overwhelmingly Positive rating from about 8,000 reviews, puts a small Free Lives project on the same footing as the studio's better-known back catalog.
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Devolver Digital released version 1.0 of Stick It To The Stickman on September 24 for PC via Steam, with Japanese in-game support. Developed by Free Lives, the physics-based roguelite brawler adds new passive skills, bosses, and archetypes. Steam concurrent players rose from around 200 to over 2,000. The game carries a normal price of 1,600 yen, discounted 50 percent to 800 yen until 2:00 AM on October 2.
The 1.0 update does more than flip a version number. It adds new passive skills, new bosses, and new corporate archetypes to unlock on top of the existing roster, which the game ties to move sets and abilities. Free Lives built the combat around physics simulation, with combos, special moves, weapons, and psychic powers across several hundred move types. Multiplayer runs on local co-op and Remote Play Together, so two players can share one company and fight through it side by side. The premise stays simple: a blue stick figure starts as a drunkard and a new hire, punches coworkers, drags down bosses, and takes the CEO seat.
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