Toribash
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
The signature mechanic is tearing opponents apart: strong impacts sever heads and limbs, and the player deliberately dismembers the enemy figure to win.
Turn-based hand-to-hand combat between two abstract humanoid figures, with blood and heavy impact damage as strikes land.
Free-to-play with real-money purchases of in-game currency for cosmetic body/joint textures and items via a player marketplace.
Purchases are cosmetic and optional; gameplay is accessible without paying for an advantage.
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What it is
Toribash is a free-to-play, turn-based physics fighting game in which two rag-doll-like humanoid figures grapple and strike in hand-to-hand combat. Instead of button-mashing, you plan each move by manipulating individual joints, then let the physics engine play out the result over a set number of frames. The combat is bloody: hard hits rack up damage and can rip limbs clean off the body, and separated pieces keep flying around the arena. There is no sexual content, nudity, substance use, or in-game profanity in the game itself. It is played online against strangers with text chat, and it has an active community around player-made mods, shared replays, forums, and a marketplace where items are traded using in-game currency or real money.
How it's framed
The game frames dismemberment and bloody combat as a playful, skill-based sandbox rather than as anything grim or realistic; the humanoid fighters are featureless mannequin-like figures, and much of the community treats knocking off an opponent's limbs as a comic, physics-driven spectacle. Winning matches by damaging or disassembling the other figure is the explicit goal.
Details
- Developer
- Nabi Studios
- Publisher
- Nicalis, Inc.
- Released
- May 16, 2014
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