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Famous games that defined the genre

Stick War — One of the most-played stickman games ever, from Max Games (2009). You command the nation of Order — mine gold, train miners, swordwrath, archers and giants, and march your stick army to smash the enemy statue. Play Stick War Saga here →

Stickman Hook — The viral one-button swinger from Madbox — you launch and grapple from point to point, using momentum and well-timed releases to fling your stickman through each level. Play Stick Man Hook here →

Stick Fight: The Game — Landfall's chaotic 2017 physics brawler (on Steam) where up to four ragdoll stick-figures fight across collapsing levels with a random arsenal — the modern face of stickman multiplayer. Play a similar stick fighter: Stickman Fighter →

Xiao Xiao — The Flash animation series by Zhu Zhiqiang that kicked off the whole stick-figure action craze around 2001 — its kung-fu fight scenes inspired a generation of stickman fighting games.

The Henry Stickmin Collection — PuffballsUnited's choose-your-own-escape comedy series (now on Steam), where a stick-figure crook attempts elaborate heists and you pick from absurd options to succeed or fail hilariously.

What are stickman games?

A stickman game is any game built around minimalist stick-figure characters — usually a black outline with stick limbs. The look is cheap to animate and endlessly flexible, so the genre covers a huge range of gameplay: hand-to-hand fighters, weapon and gun combat, army-command strategy, physics-based ragdoll sandboxes, rope-swinging platformers and multiplayer arenas. What ties them together is the readable, exaggerated animation — every punch, jump and rag-doll tumble is instantly legible because there is nothing else on screen to distract you.

Types of stickman games

The big sub-genres are: fighting and battle games (one-on-one duels or last-one-standing brawls); war and strategy games in the Stick War mould, where you command an army of stick soldiers to mine, build and attack; parkour and platformers in the swing-through-the-level Stickman Hook style; ragdoll and physics sandboxes where the comedy is in the floppy tumbling; tower defense; and .io-style multiplayer arenas. Most are one- or two-button games designed to be picked up in seconds.