Regular Human Basketball (v1.1.0)

Basketball becomes a gloriously unmanageable team sport in this chaotic local-and-online multiplayer brawler. Two towering, clunky machines face off in a post-apocalyptic arena, but neither mech is controlled by a single pilot with perfect reflexes. Instead, players scramble around the interior, operating magnets, boosters, legs, rotating joints, and other vital machinery while trying to maneuver an oversized ball into the opposing hoop. The result is loud, silly, physics-driven competition where a carefully planned dunk can become a disastrous pile-up in seconds.

Matches revolve around coordinating a crew inside one mech, with each person taking responsibility for whichever control station is closest or most urgently needed. One player can attempt to run the whole contraption alone, while larger teams turn every possession into a frantic argument about who should activate the thrusters or grab the ball with the magnet. Opponents are not safely separated on the other side of the court: players can board the rival machine, disrupt its systems, and fight to stop its movement from within. Games support split-screen and online play, making it ideal for a couch full of controllers, though its intentionally awkward controls mean that even experienced players regularly send their own robot crashing face-first into the floor.

What makes Regular Human Basketball work is its commitment to being a deliberately broken sports simulation rather than a polished competitive one. Its chunky robots, exaggerated physical comedy, fake-serious commentary, customizable faces, and energetic retro-styled soundtrack give every match the flavor of a lost late-night arcade broadcast. Six arenas provide different places to cause mechanical disasters, but the real variety comes from changing team sizes and the unpredictable human coordination—or lack of it—behind every play. Fans of Gang Beasts, Heave Ho, Overcooked, or other friendship-testing party games should find plenty to enjoy, especially with a group willing to laugh at failure. Solo players can try it, but the game is at its best when several people are shouting contradictory instructions at the same doomed machine.