STICK-LIFE: Squad Shooter

Gear up, Task Force MARGIN. STICK-LIFE is a fast first-person squad shooter where every soldier is drawn in ink, and the fights are fast, tactical and fun. Play full matches against smart bots, work through a 24-chapter story campaign, or link up with friends on the same Wi-Fi. No account needed, and the whole game plays offline. ■ SQUAD FIREFIGHTS • Team Deathmatch, Bomb Defusal and Elimination • Formats from a 1 v 1 duel up to 8 v 8 battles • Fill any empty slot with bot team-mates and bot enemies • Buy menu in Bomb and Elimination: earn money for kills and rounds, then pick your loadout ■ BOTS THAT ACTUALLY PLAY • Four difficulties: Easy, Normal, Hard and Very Hard • Each level has its own reaction time, aim, awareness and tactics • Hard bots pre-aim corners and throw grenades; Very Hard bots flank, call out your position and punish reloads • Set enemy and team-mate difficulty separately in the versus room ■ 10 OPERATORS Medic, breacher, sniper, drone recon and more. Each operator has their own look, kit, idle pose and a perk with a trade-off, like faster revives, a scout drone or a heavier punch. ■ 6 LARGE MAPS A two-storey lab atrium, a container port at dusk, a library with a balcony ring, rooftops linked by bridges, a canal pump station and a reactor core. Each map has long sightlines, close corners and catwalks to fight over. ■ THE INK RIFT: 24-CHAPTER CAMPAIGN A test at the Marginal Research Facility tears the Ink Rift open, and a black-ops cleanup crew arrives to erase every witness. Escape the lab, fight through vents, pump rooms, rooftops and floating islands, and take on three bosses: The Printer, Captain Ruler and The Author. Three story difficulties, stars to earn and lab protocols to master. ■ LOCAL MULTIPLAYER Host a room and friends on the same Wi-Fi or your phone's hotspot find it automatically. Up to 16 players, with bots filling the rest. No internet or sign-in needed. ■ MADE FOR TOUCH • One big action button: fire with a gun, stab with a knife, drag across it to aim • Quick weapon swap, aim, reload, crouch, jump and grenade buttons within thumb reach • Adjustable look sensitivity, crosshair colour, head-bob and volume • Auto resolution keeps the frame rate smooth on older phones ■ FAIR TO PLAY • Free, with nothing to buy and no pay-to-win • One small banner ad on menus only, never during a match • No account; progress is saved on your phone • Plays fully offline Stylised cartoon action with stick figures, no blood. Questions or ideas? [email protected]

First release of STICK-LIFE! • Team Deathmatch, Bomb Defusal and Elimination, 1 v 1 to 8 v 8 • Bots from Easy to Very Hard • 10 operators and 6 large maps • The Ink Rift: a 24-chapter story campaign • Local multiplayer on the same Wi-Fi