Drink More Glurp

Drink More Glurp is a couch multiplayer sports party game where the “sport” barely matters and the chaos is the point. You play an alien athlete competing in mangled, half-understood versions of Earth’s summer games, except a sponsor can barge in mid-event and rewrite the rules on you. One round you’re throwing normally, the next you’ve got laser hands and no idea how to aim them. It’s built to make a room full of people yell at a screen together, and that’s really the whole pitch.

How it plays

Each athlete’s arms move independently, one per control stick, and that’s the entire toolkit: move and grab. It sounds simple until you’re trying to throw a javelin with limbs that don’t listen to you, which is where most of the fun lives. Events get randomly paired with sponsors who twist the rules on the fly, so no two rounds play out the same way even when you’re technically doing “the same sport” again. The game supports drop in and drop out play with a defer turn option, so people can hop into a session without derailing it, and it leans on replays so you can watch (and mock) whatever just happened. Outside the party setup there’s a single player Challenge Mode with online leaderboards, useful for practicing technique or just chasing a better score on your own time.

Who it’s for

This is squarely a group game. If you’ve got friends or family around and a single controller to pass between up to a bunch of people, the sponsor twists and physics flailing are going to land well, especially with an audience that likes to heckle. It’s less interesting solo. The Challenge Mode gives you something to do alone, but the game’s real hook, unpredictable rule changes messing with a room full of people, needs other humans in the room to pay off. If your gaming time is mostly solo sessions or you want something with depth and progression, this isn’t built for that.

Is it worth grabbing?

For a party game, yes, it’s an easy one to keep around. The two-arm control scheme and rotating sponsor gimmicks mean it doesn’t wear out the way simpler local multiplayer games can, since the rules themselves keep shifting under you. It’s the kind of thing you don’t boot up every week but pull out the moment people are over and looking for something to laugh at rather than something to master. If you host game nights or have a regular local multiplayer crew, it’s worth having in the library. If you mostly play alone, you can probably let this one pass.

Quick facts

Genre: Action, Casual, Indie, Sports. Developer: CATASTROPHIC_OVERLOAD. Publisher: Yogscast Games. Platform: PC (Steam). Release date: August 6, 2020.