Chaos: Arena is a fast paced arena game which pitches you and your friends against one another or the CPU in an battle royal, or in two-person teams. In addition you also play against a series of increasingly more difficult waves of enemies.

Chaos: Arena is the post-jam version of Bad Rooms, my Extra catagory entry for LD55.

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 4 players in Arena and Team modes.

Premium Edition:

Purchasing the game will grant access to standalone downloads for Linux, Mac, Windows and Raspberry Pi. The Premium Edition allows you to have up to 8 players in both Arena and Team modes.

Source code is included.

Purchase

Buy Now$1.99 USD or more

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $1.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:

premium_chaos_arena_all.zip 11 MB
chaos_arena.p8 88 kB

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