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Smack Studio
A sandbox fighting game with built-in creation tools to create characters and stages. Animate pixel art characters using our 3D pixel art rotation technology, then battle with up to 8 players! Use our tools to export sprites for your own projects.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“I got this for the powerful editor with huge potential for game dev. After using it for hours it has huge potential. I think one obvious draw back is the fact its held back with the purpose it is created for, the smackdown. I beg you make the editor a standalone feature, its…”
— a player, Steam review · 32 hrs played“In case the dev reads this, I just want to say that if you release a standalone sprite editor for pixel artists, I will purchase it. I'm sure you already get a lot of requests for this, but the more the better so you can hopefully see their is a demand for a product like that. I…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Yes I would recommend this for the editor alone. We are using it for a game incubator program and it's fantastic, better the more you get comfortable with it. My only grip is that you can't rename the layers... if I am using this exclusively to fill out spritesheets, I want to…”
— a player, Steam review · 250 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
This Week, in Smack Studio: Coming Up: Doubles Tourney!
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Action, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Character Customization · Local Multiplayer · 2D Fighter · Design & Illustration · Sandbox · Pixel Graphics · Fighting · 2.5D · Multiplayer · Level Editor · Software · Automation (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op |
| Languages | English * * |
| Official site | https://smackstudio.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 8 or newer, 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5-4690K @3.50GHz or AMD FX-9370 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX480. Dedicated graphics card required for Intel Core i5 (Integrated Intel Core i5 GPUs not supported). DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 10 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX compatible soundcard or onboard chipset Additional Notes: Compatible with XInput and DirectInput USB devices including gamepads based on Xbox and other consoles. Compatible with Nintendo GameCube Controllers via