"Life is a series of battles, and I just lost my last one against four gyoza on a skewer. It was an unexpected blow, because honestly, who could have expected me - a springy, respectably proportioned hot dog - to lose against a seemingly inflexible spear of small, unassuming dumplings? This is my struggle in Sausage Legend: Arena, a mobile game with a very simple premise: duel with other players' sausages and win."
"On the surface, it looks like a garden-variety mobile game riddled with bugs (it is). But the difference between Sausage Legend and a fleeting idea you had after overdoing it on edibles is that 3.5 million people have played Sausage Legend, it has been on Japanese national television, and it is shockingly fun. And with an upcoming release on Steam, it's poised to get even bigger."
"As befits combat that demands swatting two wieners at each other, Sausage Legend is a heavily physics-based game. Each sausage is thrust onto the battlefield by a fork; players flop their sausages around to bludgeon each other to death. As someone with the vestigial sensibilities of a 13-year-old shitposter, I love this ballet of well-timed jabs and opportunistic ripostes, all while I admire the resilience and elasticity of my humble meat sword."
Sausage Legend: Arena is a mobile physics-based multiplayer brawler in which players launch flexible sausages onto a battlefield using forks and try to bludgeon opponents to death. The gameplay hinges on timing, elasticity, and improvised attacks against varied food-themed combatants such as lightning-infused cocktail sausages, weisswurst, brats, goteborgs, pickled cucumber, and even a slice of pepperoni pizza or gyoza on a skewer. The game has amassed roughly 3.5 million players, earned exposure on Japanese national television, and remains buggy but highly entertaining. An upcoming Steam release aims to expand the game's international reach.
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