Snowballer

Snowballer is a fast-paced first-person snowball-fight and sled-racing simulation. You can battle other players, build snow forts, take on single-player challenges and race downhill. Its maps include locations such as a lake, schoolyard, parks, backyards, treehouses, ancient ruins, a forest and a graveyard.

Multiplayer modes

The multiplayer modes include:

• Deathmatch: everyone fights everyone.
• Team Fight: Red Team battles Blue Team.
• Fire Fight: protect your campfire while trying to extinguish the other team's fire.
• Capture the Flag: ride your sled to capture the flag.

Single-player modes

• Sandbox / Creative-Mode: build constructions and fortifications from stackable snow piles, with no maximum number of piles. You can save and load your builds at any time, and place ramps for sled jumps.
• Battle Editor Mode: set up battles and snowball fights between NPCs, then take part in them.
• Survival Challenges: withstand waves of opponents, their angry big brothers and other dangers.
• Global Time Attack: race downhill on sleds and compete for the best time on global leaderboards for each track.

Customize your character

You can customize your character with taunts, hats, clothing, attributes and a sled. Adjustable attributes let you tailor aspects of play: Power affects maximum throwing force and snowball damage, while Speed affects walking and sprinting velocity, the time needed to charge a throw to maximum strength, and the minimum interval between throws.

Sleds and crashes

Each sled has its own steering attributes and jump pattern. Sleds serve as weapons and getaway vehicles, but also pose a danger to your wellbeing. Boosting raises your possible maximum speed at the cost of worse handling and a higher chance of crashing.

A crash high score is calculated by adding the impacts to each body part, with different score multipliers for each part. Head and spine impacts have the highest multipliers, and a leaderboard ranks the worst crashes.

Maps and events

The game has 12 or more maps for modes such as Free For All, plus two maps with around 10 different race tracks for Time Trial. Some maps can be played during the day or at night. Environmental hazards and dangerous wildlife appear across the maps, alongside secrets to discover, events to trigger and dimensions to invade.

Abilities and items

Four overdrive abilities let you unleash different snowball attacks:

• Snow Burst: throw a series of snowballs in a short time, with medium effective range and damage.
• Spreading Snowball: launch multiple snowballs in a cone; it has a short effective range but is highly effective within it.
• Snowball Snipe: throw one exceptionally powerful snowball.
• Avalanche: launch smaller snowballs that may start an avalanche.

Playing grants gift boxes that may contain equippable or consumable items. Equippable items can be reused, including dog companions that may catch and save you from incoming snowballs, and custom taunt animations. Consumables can be selected from the in-game inventory before a match; examples include lottery tickets, which offer a chance to win collectibles, and funfair tickets, which grant one-time access to otherwise unreachable encounters, challenges or sideshows. Usable items are equipped in the inventory and permanently removed from your Steam inventory after use. There are currently over 100 base items, available in many variations.

The game also features hit zones and an instant replay function that saves the last seconds of gameplay as a GIF with a single button press.