Push Me Pull You

In a game of Push Me Pull You, two teams of sausage-like bodies with heads at both ends face off in a circle for territorial control of a ball.^[1] The game has two- and four-player modes.^[2] There is a hidden option to swap the human heads for those of dogs.^[3]

Push Me Pull You was developed by four friends from Melbourne as the indie developer House House. They have said that the game is about friendship and wrestling.^[4] The game was named for the two-headed llama pushmi-pullyu from Doctor Dolittle,^[5] and was originally planned for release in 2014.^[6] It was exhibited at Game Developers Conference 2014 and the 2015 PlayStation Experience.^[7] The game was announced for the PlayStation 4 in November 2015.^[8] Push Me Pull You was finally scheduled for release for PlayStation 4 on May 3, 2016, and for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux later in the year.^[1]

On review aggregator Metacritic, the game received "generally favorable reviews" on PlayStation 4, with a score of 75 out of 100, based on 4 reviews.^[9] Sam Machkovech of Ars Technica said that the game was the best among its contemporary wave of "couch sports" games: non-combat multiplayer with elements similar to old sports video games. He added that the game's aesthetic was reminiscent of Adult Swim.^[10] Jamin Warren of Kill Screen wrote that the game's core gameplay has a "Koonsian quality of both innocent and grotesque".^[4] Alice O'Connor of Rock, Paper, Shotgun called the game "David Cronenberg's Wrestleball".^[11] Andrew Tarantola from Engadget compared Push Me Pull You to a combination of Greco-Roman wrestling, capture the flag, Human Centipede, and soccer.^[12] Writing for Polygon, Megan Farokhmanesh and Allegra Frank praised the game as "one of the most fast-paced, unique, and entertaining additions" entries in the local multiplayer genre.^[13]