Full Metal Furies

A masterpiece! top tier co-op brawler. Super smarting systems and design. Memorable characters and gameplay, funny dialogues. The puzzles makes you feel like the smarter person ever, and they are super creative. The visuals and sound are amazing.

This game is a real gem that went completely unnoticed. Extremely fun and satisfying co-op beat 'em up with 4 completely different characters you can chose from (looking at you Castle Crashers, with your 50 copy-pasted playable characters), each with their unique tech tree and equipments, that you can mix and match to change completely the way you play the character. The game also encourages the player to change equipment, by giving small stats increase, this way you are more incentivized to experiment and not stick to the same build for the entire game. Many people dislike the colored shields that the enemies get, that must be destroyed by a specific character. I find this mechanic perfect for single player, so you are forced to swap characters, and it also works great in two players. I imagine that if you are in 4 players and the enemies keep changing shield color it can be become annoying tho. (There is a mod to remove the shields if you don't like them). A negative thing for pretty much anyone are rosetta stones, the "riddles" you have to complete to get the true ending. Some are extremely hard to understand, I have at least three playthrough and I still have to search on the internet the solution for some of them. There are guides on steam that directly show all the codes, but even by having already the solution you still have to manually input them, and it's boring and time consuming. A great positive point is that this game has a perfectly working online co-op, a thing that many beat 'em ups still refuse to implement in 2025. It also has split screen if that's your jam.