You can sign up to get a daily email of our articles, see the Mailing List page.
We do often include affiliate links to earn us some pennies. See more here.

Brutal local co-op platform brawler CHOP has released

By - | Views: 7,211

CHOP, a brutal local co-op platform brawler recently left Early Access on Steam. If you like fast-paced fighters with a great style and chaotic gameplay this is for you. There's multiple game modes, up to four players in the standard modes and there's bots as well if you don't have people over often.

Speaking about the release, the developer told me they felt "many local multiplayer games fall into a major pitfall : they often lack impact and accuracy, they don't have this extra oomph that ensure players will really be into the game and hang their gamepad like their life depends on it." and that "CHOP stands out in this regard". I've actually quite enjoyed this one, the action in CHOP is really satisfying overall.

YouTube Thumbnail
YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view. View cookie preferences.
Accept Cookies & Show   Direct Link

With the full release of the game now out, it came along with a huge patch to expand it too. You can now pick between sticking to walls or sliding, a tournament mode for up to 16 players, more arenas (there's now 32), new type of Grab-Kills, the option to reduce blood and guts, a slightly improved AI and so on. They also said they did a "major code optimization" and whatever they did worked nicely, it's running extremely well on my machine now.

CHOP only has a few game modes, although they're pretty good. One of them has you kill someone to open a portal for you to leave and score points but if you die it closes your portal. So you have to keep taking down players, especially those who have an open portal so they can't leave while also trying to get through your own. It becomes pretty intense and it's a huge amount of fun. Like a lot of indie games though, it's gone quite unnoticed.

Find CHOP on Steam.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
7 Likes
About the author -
author picture
I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly came back to check on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly. Find me on Mastodon.
See more from me
The comments on this article are closed.
3 comments

RTheren Sep 17, 2019
Local Co-op...WHY???

Why don't the devs implement internet Co-op instead? Not everybody has people available for local play...
hemebond Sep 18, 2019
Quoting: RTherenWhy don't the devs implement internet Co-op instead?
Because local is far, far easier to implement.
chr Sep 18, 2019
I like local coop a lot, but there's way too much focus on violence in this for my taste.
While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on:

Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.

This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!

You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
The comments on this article are closed.