Game: Stick It to the Stickman
Developer: Free Lives
Genre: Comedy, Fighting Game
Releases: 2025 (Windows)
Stalk’s Rating: 7/10

If you are around my age, you might remember a time when stick figure animations were all the rage. I can vividly remember watching the various “Counterstrike”-related videos from flashdeckanimations (like this one for the map Dust), while there are also other examples like the more recent “Shock” from Terkoiz; with “recent” still referring to about ten years ago. If you ask yourself where I am going with this, then I can answer you that such a type of video is now available in playable form. Now, I am sure that there were plenty of Flash games doing a similar thing back in the day and games like “Nidhogg” exist which basically capture the same idea, but “Stick it to the Stickman” presents a polished yet silly gameplay premise that I would not even have played in the first place if Gilkar from my Discord chat hadn’t bought the game for me, insisting that I should try it. Join me on a journey up the corporate ladder where only your ability to fight is what keeps you from staying a normal wage slave.