A South African beat 'em up with a straight face
Boet Fighter is a side-scrolling 2D platform beat 'em up in the style of Double Dragon and Golden Axe, with a smidgen of Street Fighter. You play as Fourways legend Hard Eddy, who fights through the city's iconic boet landmarks — starting with "William the Boets", the jewel in the Fourways nightclubbing crown — to reclaim his stolen binnet, his lady love interest. His main charna, Modise "Mod-C" Cwele, is along for the ride. The game leans hard into cutting-edge cultural stereotypes and a total lack of irony, and it knows it: it's a joke, but also a very serious matter. Expect creatine, violence and house beats.
Playing it with your group
Boet Fighter carries the Remote Play Together feature, so friends can join in over a stream of your game without everyone needing their own copy. That fits the beat 'em up format well: you and your crew work through the side-scrolling stages together, moering everything standing between Hard Eddy and his binnet. Set it up from one person's copy and let the rest of the group drop in from there.
What to know before you start
The tone is loud, crude and deliberately over the top — it pokes fun with love, and with violence. The Steam tags flag it as violent, so the on-screen action matches the writing. It's a very South African game, slang and all, and the store text is blunt about the fact that if you don't like it, it will punch you in the face. If your group is fine with crude humour, stereotypes played for laughs and a beat 'em up that doesn't take itself seriously, it's built for exactly that kind of night in.