You’ll fight back, grabbing at your foe as they try to shake you off, punching you with their jelly arms as you grip at their jelly face. You’ll be knocked unconscious by a hit to the head, hoisted into the air by an enemy, and then wake up moments before they throw you into an abyss. Your move set is pretty simple – punch, lift, grab – but from this the most wonderfully cinematic battle stories spill out. That said, despite still being in early access, we named Gang Beasts as the 21st best action game ever made. The game's level design, in which stages take place upon ferris wheels, the roofs of speeding lorries, and window cleaning gondolas, will still be wonderful, but I fear the madcap slapstick of it will fall flatter without grimacing and squealing pals alongside. Part of the fun is in picking up a friend, hoisting them above your head, and dawdling clumsily towards a meat grinder to a chorus of 'No! No! No!'.

I'm curious as to how Gang Beasts' pleasures fare when you're removed from the people you're playing against. No more! The game of haphazard punching in comically hazardous locations now has an online multiplayer beta, so mountain-dwellers everywhere can play together - assuming you can get access.

Some of you live high atop remote mountains with no other people around, which means local multiplayer game and gelatinous brawler Gang Beasts has thus far been useless to you.

Can i play gang beasts online