The concept takes thirty seconds to explain and the betrayals start immediately. Everyone places objects in the level before the round begins, trying to make it passable for themselves and impossible for everyone else. A well-placed moving platform that accidentally lets your opponent through while blocking you is more embarrassing than losing on purpose. I have played a lot of competitive party games, and few of them generate the kind of sustained laughter that comes from watching someone dismantle their own plan in real time. It is worth knowing that players who genuinely struggle with platforming mechanics will find this harder than the more accessible picks higher on the list. But for groups who enjoy a bit of creative sabotage, this is one of the most replayable options here.

About Ultimate Chicken Horse
At a glance
- Released
- March 4, 2016
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, macOS, Android, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PC
- Genres
- Shooter, Platformer, Racing, Adventure, Indie, Arcade, Action, Casual
- Play modes
- Single Player, Multiplayer, Co-op, Online Multiplayer, Local Couch Co-op, Split-Screen
- Age rating
- ESRB E
- Time to beat
- 4 hours
- Multiplayer
- By platform
Screenshots
Click any screenshot to view it full size.
How long to beat
Player-reported completion times for Ultimate Chicken Horse.
- Typical
- 4hoursStory plus some extras
Multiplayer by platform
How Ultimate Chicken Horse supports playing with other people, broken down per platform.
| Platform | Local | Online | LAN | Split-screen | Co-op campaign | Drop-in/out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nintendo Switch | Yes, up to 4 players | Yes, up to 4 players | No | Yes | No | No |
| PC | Yes, up to 4 players | Yes, up to 4 players | No | Yes | No | No |
| PlayStation 4 | Yes, up to 4 players | Yes, up to 4 players | No | Yes | No | No |
| Xbox One | Yes, up to 4 players | Yes, up to 4 players | No | Yes | No | No |
- Supported (a number is the player cap)
- Not supported
- Not documented for this platform
Age ratings
How rating boards around the world have classified Ultimate Chicken Horse. Open a board for its content descriptors.
CEROB
- Violence
ESRBE
- Mild Fantasy Violence
GRACALL
- Violence
Often listed alongside Ultimate Chicken Horse
Titles that appear in the same guides on this site. Grouped by where they show up, not by recommendation.
Featured in our articles
This game appears in 2 articles on this site.
The premise sounds ridiculous and it is: you build the level together, everyone tries to reach the flag, and the goal is to make it hard enough that your friends fail but easy enough that you can still get through. We played this at a LAN session expecting twenty minutes and it ran for two hours. It runs on basically any hardware, which is part of why it keeps showing up in this context. It is not traditional co-op in the campaign sense, but as a group game for modest machines, very few things generate this much noise for this little cost.
Game data and imagery provided by IGDB.com

