Sumo Smash

🎮 About This Game

Sumo Smash is a physics arena duel we built from scratch for TwozyGames: two glowing sumo balls, one shrinking circle of neon, and a single goal — bonk your rival out of the ring before they bonk you. Every round is a burst of pushing, feinting and perfectly-timed dashes, and the first player to take 5 rounds wins the match. What makes it tick is the collision physics: every impact bounces both players, so charging in recklessly is just as likely to send you flying as your opponent. Four stages change the rules of engagement — Classic is a straight duel, Shrink slowly closes the ring around you, Bumpers drops two pillars into the arena that punish sloppy movement, and Ice cuts your grip so momentum becomes king. Play solo against a CPU with three genuinely different difficulty levels, or grab a friend for a same-keyboard 2-player match.

🎯 How to Play

Steer your sumo with the Arrow Keys and dash with Space (in 2-player, Player 1 uses WASD + Space and Player 2 uses Arrow Keys + /). Push your rival past the glowing ring edge to take the round; first to 5 rounds wins the match. Dashing gives you a burst of speed and much heavier impacts, but it has a cooldown — the white ring around your sumo shows when it's recharging. On the title screen, press D to cycle CPU difficulty, S to cycle the stage, and 1 or 2 (or Space) to start. During a match: P pauses, R restarts, Esc returns to the menu.

💡 Tips & Strategy

• ▸Push outward, not just forward. Collisions bounce both players, so attacks only pay off when your rival is closer to the edge than you are — circle first, then strike along the line that sends them out.
• ▸Dash on contact, not on approach. A whiffed dash leaves you sliding with no steering and your cooldown spent; wait until you're almost touching, then dash through them.
• ▸After any big collision, steer back toward the center before re-engaging. Most lost rounds come from trading hits while drifting edge-side.
• ▸On Shrink, holding the center early is worth more than landing hits — let the closing ring do the pushing for you.
• ▸On Ice, momentum barely decays. Accelerate in short taps and never start a shoving contest while you're sliding backward.
• ▸The Hard CPU guards the center and saves its dash for when you're edge-side. Feint toward the edge, cut back sharply, and it will often dash past you into open space.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions