Gang Beasts is a Multiplayer Co-op Party Game influenced by classic mêlée fighting games, specifically Capcom's Final Fight series, Sega's Streets of Rage and Golden Axe games, Konami's Crime Fighters, and Technos Double Dragon and Renegade titles, the cartoon violence of Chuck Jones, John Kricfalusi, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, and the stylised aesthetics and music of Walter Hill's The Warriors, and John Carpenter's Escape from New York.
Gang Beasts is a stupidly silly local multiplayer party game with doughy ragdoll physics and horrific environmental hazards. In the current pre-alpha players can grab, push, pull, punch, and throw their friends from wrestling rings, speeding trucks, and suspended platforms, and into mechanical grinders, additional levels will include fiery incinerators, chemical vats, and moving trains.