Splatt

Splatt is a competitive online obstacle racer for two to four players. Every racer is given an egg and must carry it across open, natural courses using a physics-driven character that can run, sprint and jump. A hard impact or a long fall can break the egg and leave a permanent splat in the player’s colour at that spot. Racers who finish without an egg can still continue, but they receive half the points. There is no team play and no shared objective.

A session lasts three rounds on courses chosen by the players, and usually takes ten to twenty minutes. Points are given for finishing position (10, 6, 4 and 2), plus a bonus for arriving with an intact egg. Scores carry across all rounds. Each course places wildcard boxes before every round, with contents rolled anew each time and roughly a third being traps. Traps include Stun, Force Drop, Slowdown and Drippity Gone, which removes Drips from the player’s balance. Perks include Speed Boost, Teleport, Wind Wave, which pushes nearby players, and Drippity Add, which adds Drips. Each box can affect every player once per round.

Scores also earn Drips, a permanent currency tied to the player’s account. Drips are spent in the hub wardrobe, where a racer’s hat, shirt, pants, shoes and accessory can be changed and recoloured from a palette of twelve. Outfits are saved to the cloud. The hub also contains a holotable for voting on the next course and a staging platform that starts each round once everyone is on it. Multiplayer runs through Steam, with one player hosting, a server browser, password-protected private lobbies and drop-in between races. The game requires at least two players and includes two courses, plus mouse sensitivity, axis inversion, resolution and display settings.