Chaos: Arena

Chaos: Arena is a fast paced arena game which pitches you and your friends against one another or the CPU in an battle royal, two-person teams, or against increasingly difficult waves whilst learning new spells to improve your chances.

Spells:

• Rat: Weak but fast rodent
• Bat: Weak but it can fly over obstacles
• Goblin: Weak but it can shoot enemies at range
• Wolf: Fast and moderately tough
• Dwarf: Incredibly resilient but stays close to the Wizard to guard them
• Orc: Very damaging and moderately tough creature 
• Centaur: Fast and moderately tough creature which can shoot enemies at range
• Giant: Slow but damaging creature, it's attacks hit everything in an area
• Dragon: Slow but flying creature, it can periodically breath out a fireball
• Fire: Creates patches of fire around the arena, be careful not to step on them
• Goo: Creates patches of good around the arena, harmless but tough to remove
• Buff: Grants a 20 second bonus to your Wizard
• Debuff: Grants a 20 second bane to closest enemy
• Bolt: Fast highly damaging bolt of magic
• Fireball: A ball of fire that explodes on impact, damaging everything round it

Controls:

• Toggle Fullscreen: Alt+Enter 
• Reload/Run/Restart cart: Ctrl+R
• Mute/Unmute: Ctrl+M
• Player 1 defaults: Arrow Keys + ZX / NM / CV
• Player 2 defaults: ESDF + QW
• Enter or P key for pause menu (while running)

Controllers:

• You can use any game controllers recognized by SDL with PICO-8

Browser Edition:

The free-to-play browser version has 3 game modes: Arena, Team, and Waves. You can play with up to 8 players in Arena and Team modes.

Premium Edition:

Purchasing the game will grant access to standalone downloads for Linux, Mac, Windows and Raspberry Pi. Source code included.