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Developer(s) | House House |
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Platform(s) | PlayStation 4, macOS, Linux, Windows |
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Push Me Pull You is a 2016 video game based on wrestling, developed by the Australian company House House. It was originally released in 2016 for PlayStation 4, Windows, Mac, and Linux.
In a game of Push Me Pull You, two teams of sausage-like bodies with heads at both ends face off in a circle for territorial control of a ball. [1] The game has two- and four-player modes. [2] There is a hidden option to swap the human heads for those of dogs. [3]
Push Me Pull You was developed by four friends from Melbourne as the indie developer House House. They have said that the game is about friendship and wrestling. [4] The game was named for the two-headed llama pushmi-pullyu from Doctor Dolittle, [5] and was originally planned for release in 2014. [6] It was exhibited at Game Developers Conference 2014 and the 2015 PlayStation Experience. [7] The game was announced for the PlayStation 4 in November 2015. [8] Push Me Pull You was finally scheduled for release for PlayStation 4 on May 3, 2016, and for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux later in the year. [1]
On review aggregator Metacritic, the game received "generally favorable reviews" on PlayStation 4, with a score of 75 out of 100, based on 4 reviews. [9] Sam Machkovech of Ars Technica said that the game was the best among its contemporary wave of "couch sports" games: non-combat multiplayer with elements similar to old sports video games. He added that the game's aesthetic was reminiscent of Adult Swim. [10] Jamin Warren of Kill Screen wrote that the game's core gameplay has a "Koonsian quality of both innocent and grotesque". [4] Alice O'Connor of Rock, Paper, Shotgun called the game "David Cronenberg's Wrestleball". [11] Andrew Tarantola from Engadget compared Push Me Pull You to a combination of Greco-Roman wrestling, capture the flag, Human Centipede , and soccer. [12] Writing for Polygon , Megan Farokhmanesh and Allegra Frank praised the game as "one of the most fast-paced, unique, and entertaining additions" entries in the local multiplayer genre. [13]