HIRT is a sheep-fueled brawler game with intense, emergent gameplay!
HIRT puts the players in the role of competing shepherds. They try to win holy pastures for their antagonized clans, fighting each other with every mean they find on the sheep inhabitated islands.
This sheep brawler let’s you experience:
A Frantic local multiplayer brawler for up to 4 players on PC and Mac
A systemic gameplay and world, where weird chain reactions with sheep and weaponry are possible
A strange and outstanding setting, in which player fight with herds of self-determined animals
A unique systemic brawler gameplay
HIRT follows a systemic gameplay approach. This means that the game world is cohesive and built on simple rules and systems. Those lead to a huge amount of possible outcomes and chain reactions. Pushing a dog off an altar with a tornado horn and awakening a stampede? Sure. Sheering wool off your dead Co-Player? Yep. Getting thrown off the island while hooked to a staff? Here you go.
A multitude of islands to brawl on
HIRT combines epic sceneries with intense and hectic gameplay mechanics. Players face each other over and over again on a multitude of islands, desperately trying to win back the old remnants and forgotten sanctuaries for their clan. However, the sheep inhabited maps differ in size, available space and layout. Additionally, each map has a HIRT-unique system of item and sheep randomizing, which creates new elements of surprise and mayhem with every round the shepherds fight.
Quick decisions and big hits
You will never know how many sheep and which items there are going to be. Even the most experienced players have to constantly adapt their behaviors to the given circumstances. HIRT leaves less room for long term strategies but rewards those who are witty enough in even the strangest, most wool loaded and ground shaking situations. Only those who can evade stampedes, bone breaking ram hits, rampaging sheep and the cold deadly waters around the archipels will return home as the new messiahs of their shepherding clans.
Can I buy/ download HIRT? What platforms does HIRT support?
HIRT is in active development since early 2019 and we are working on the Mac and PC Version. We are currently setting up our presence and looking into building a community around our sheep fueled brawler game. We now have a Steam Page ready for you to wishlist. And if you want to be part of the HIRT community and have access to our wooly fighting game as early as possible, JOIN our mailing list , or JOIN our DISCORD
HIRT is a sheep brawler proudly made in Switzerland by David Hunziker and Basil Sutter and music by Christoph Scherbaum. It was created as our bachelor work at the Zurich University of the Arts and is currently further being developed.