Buy Sportsfriends

Video gaming at its best.

One of the best local multiplayer experiences money can buy. Worth it for J.S. Joust alone with its brilliant use of PS Move controller, and the other three games (there may be a few bonus ones hiding around) are great conventional controller experiences.

An amazing collection of local multiplayer games. I've been playing these games with friends and at public events for over a year and they're a crowd favourite every time. Each of the games is easy enough to pick up from watching a match or two but are deceptively complex and very competitive. JS Joust has some unusual requirements in order to play (2-7 PS Move controllers and a large-ish room to play in), but the effort is definately worth it. Joust is the most memorable and universally enjoyable party game I've ever hosted. Even the two secret games are hilarious fun once you figure out how to unlock them (you'll have to figure this one out by yourself).

The core tenet of Sportfriends: the more people, the better.

This is the ultimate party game. Each game has very little learning overhead, is fun to watch, and is over quickly enough that your other friends can rotate in.

And yes, the killer app here is Joust. If you love throwing parties, and are friends with people who aren't as into games as you, I can 100% recommend from experience navigating over to eBay, taking the plunge and buying 8 Move controllers. It cost me about $100, but make the next two parties you throw BYOB and you'll be back in the black with leftover booze.

There is, however, ONE MAJOR ISSUE: no Windows support for Move controllers! As a Kickstarter backer I've been following development, and it looks the devs have been doing literally everything in their power to get this to work, but no dice – they even spoke to an MS engineer who told them it was impossible to do. Still, if you're going to put in the effort to get those Move controllers, might as well go the extra mile and install Ubuntu on your machine. Problem solved!

Also, the other games all work wirelessly with up to four PS4 controllers! I haven't tried any other controllers, but I can definitely confirm Dualshock 4 functionality.

Through rigorous study and experimentation, a group of friends and I have confirmed that Sportsfriends is statistically MUCH more fun than the following:

Farting into coffee cans and then releasing them into the wild,

Sliding down stairs on couch cushions,

Eating baby-back spare ribs,

Shredding the "gnar,"

Pooping for sport,

Pooping for recreation,

Consuming Doritos and Surge whilst playing THPS,

Getting jiggy with "it,"

Pooping for recreational sport,

Getting some of your chocolate in my peanut butter,

Organized professional baby wrestling,

and betting on celebrity overdoses.

More studies will be conducted now that the full game is out. Sources and data can be provided upon formal request. Except the baby wrestling data. The cops took those, along with our little tiny wrestling ring.

It's all local multiplayer, but if you ever have friends over you NEED to have Sportsfriends. It is a collection of some of the best local multiplayer games ever created. It's the Orange Box of local multiplayer games.

I haven't had a chance to play the other games but they're just icing on the Joust-cake.

Joust is one of the most amazing and fun games you can play with a group of people. No matter if they're gamers or not. You'd be remiss not to try it.

This is the best collection of local multiplayer couch games ever. Cannot rate highly enough.

For all those who like moneys and those who don't!

For a local multiplayer game, this tops the charts as one of my top faves. I am running on windows, so I can't play the JSJ game, but I can still play Pole Riders and BBB, which are always intense fun.

My suggestion though; the more players you have, the better time you're going to have. Even having a third person who is on rotation with whoever loses to encourage someone or shout with the rest of you is enough in my book!

It's also pretty damn good at parties.

Sportsfirends is honestly one of the best games to come out in a while. So much fun to play with friends. BBB makes a great standalone competitive fighter, while JS Joust is just an incredible experience.