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2006 · Nabi Studios · Fighting · Indie

Toribash

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Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you're able to design your own moves.

Released: 2 March 2006
Platforms: Linux Wii Windows macOS
Genres: Fighting Indie Simulation Strategy
Developers: Nabi Studios
Publishers: Nicalis
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Themes: Action Sandbox
Age ratings: ESRB T
Languages: English, French, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat: 0.5hmain story2hcompletionist

About

Toribash is a free-to-play turn-based third-person fighting game created by Singaporean developer Nabi Studios and published by Nicalis, which released on Microsoft Windows in 2006. A port for the Wii was released in July 2010, and for OS X and Linux in May 2014. A sequel, titled Toribash Next, was released in January 2024.

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Gameplay

The game is mainly played by manipulating the various joints on the player's doll-like character over turn-based sequences to execute movements. These movements primarily include relaxing, holding, contracting and extending of the player model's neck, pecs, elbows, wrists, abdomen, glutes, hips, knees and ankles; raising and lowering the shoulders, tilting the lumbar and chest left and right, and grabbing and un-grabbing of the hands.

The game features singleplayer and multiplayer, where movements are executed in turn-frames of varying lengths within set match-frames. The game is heavily sand-box based.