When I received a review key for Squish, I was rather excited! It seemed like a fascinating game and the art style seemed to be rather unique. Sadly, after playing it, I was kind of at a loss for words. There is definitely nothing wrong with the mechanics of the game, nor is there anything in the game that is revolutionary. The thing that caused me to be at a loss for words were the various game modes that exist within Squish. Let’s get into what Squish is.

Squish is described on the game’s website as “A fierce, competitive, and lightning-fast local multiplayer platformer where you and up to three friends join an underground rave of the gooey undead and party it up until it starts falling down. Literally. Even as debris rain down on you, you must run, jump and push blocks around to put yourself in a better position and squish your opponents. Last goo around takes it all!” This description is pretty much spot on, but there is one thing that sticks out to me. It says that Squish is a local multiplayer platformer, which is a bit weird.

The reason that I say that it is weird is that the game has settings options for you to pick a region server and a button to access multiplayer lobbies. The search for multiplayer lobbies is done in two ways, either through a room code or by quick joining a game. Usually, this would mean that I could just click quick join and find a game in order to complete this review. However, this was not the case because the game seems to be a graveyard in terms of player count. After all of this, I began to feel a bit like the last player to stick with Babylon’s Fall.

Since I was unable to fully experience this game since I couldn’t find any players and none of my friends were willing to buy the game when it was released, I decided that I would look at the Steam player reviews that were left behind. There are a total of nine reviews on Squish‘s Steam Page, at the time of writing, and they are all positive. A Steam User by the name of Freddrock said:

“Surprisingly fun game with hilarious moments of accidental deaths. This party game deserves a look for the right price. Could use more modes to keep the game fresh (even custom elements that the player can change for each mode if they want to). Odd that you can’t use a mouse to navigate menus. There should be a “must use controller” warning before main menu appears. Having right shift as the selection button is also an odd choice. Recommend using a controller!”

The other reviews were a smattering of similar comments about how a controller is the better option compared to using a mouse and keyboard. They also mentioned that the game is made for multiple people to play at once, and occasionally that there are no bots for when you want to play the full game on your own. It was interesting to me to see that amongst all of these reviews, there were only three people who had over one hour of time played.

In fact, the average play time amongst all of the players who reviewed the game on Steam was 1.04 hours. While it does seem like this game has an audience, it looks like its playability is limited to when you have a group of people over or friends who are willing to buy the game.

A PC Review Copy of Squish was provided by PM Studios for this Review.

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Squish

14.99

6.5

Score

6.5/10

Pros

• Easy Customization
• Neat Concepts

Cons

• No Online Player Base
• Only One Game Mode for Single Player
• Controller Optimized Only