The summer season is coming to a close. Many of us might still be searching for one final chaotic romp with our friends, before having to depart to school or work. Nothing screams “friendship” like yelling at one another yet panicking together, then reveling over a high-stress victory; Hugecalf Studios released Stuck Together in November 2025 – a difficult, co-op, platforming adventure game, tickled with Human Fall Flat-style comedy and ire. Definitely rage bait for solo players, and certainly a friendship tester like Mario Kart or Overcooked, players will get a lot of bang for their buck with Stuck Together.
Stuck Together can be played on Steam, PC, and the Nintendo Switch 1 and 2.
Stuck like glue, literally.
Remember Sid from Toy Story 1? The same archetype is happening here: a mentally unstable teenager named Stan frankensteins and torments their poor, helpless toys. Players 1 (and 2) are conjoined via glue, with one half a buff horseman and the other half a buff duckman, both having suction cups for hands. The goal is to escape Stan’s torture chamber called a “bedroom . . .” well, the whole house really.
Much of the plot can be determined through environmental factors, and I use the word “plot” very generously. There are loose scythes scattered around, uncovered physical discs, and decapitated doll heads . . . you get the idea. Set in a family home, there are six distinct levels to climb through. This includes the bedroom, attic, and kitchen, as well as combo areas of the house like a pillow fort and gardening shed.
The game takes about one hour per level, more or less, depending upon the players’ skill levels. So, really anywhere between 40 minutes to a gamer-rage-quitting amount of time.
It takes two . . . maybe . . .
On a high note, Stuck Together’s controls are very smooth and easy to grapple. You will need to remember two to four buttons, depending upon if you are solo or not. This game is 100% meant to be played by two people. Otherwise, solo players will attempt to balance a hellscape of button recall. In solo, L and R control the horse half’s suctions, and the triggers are for the duck half. With two people, each player will only need the triggers and joystick!
The only action players can perform is grabbing with these suctions, whether this is for climbing vertically or horizontally, picking up momentum to swing yourself towards the skies, picking up items, and navigating environmental hazards. Each level design is very fascinating yet chaotic, dramatically adventurous yet (humorously) unfair. Hazards can include anything from a toy UFO that truly lets you defy gravity, popcorn that pops violently, or even Stan’s roughed-up fist will come to annihilate you. Not sure why they would not be ultra alarmed that their toys are moving, but you know . . . psychopathic behavior!
Stuck Together offers both an easy mode and a standard mode. Both modes include sparse checkpoints as you progress through the levels, but easy mode will allow players to resume from their furthest point if they fall down. On standard mode, there is no such thing! If you fall, you face the consequences.
Not-so quiet rage
There is an overall dim lighting that makes players feel as if stakes are high (which they are), and it also gives off the eeriness of a sadistic teenage abode. However, the game is ultimately colorful and stylized with a 3D toybox aesthetic akin to It Takes Two, but perhaps a bit more visually similar to other popular party co-ops like Party Animals. Lots of environmental elements will captivate your attention, from Rubik’s Cube pieces to bright and shiny sunny-side-up eggs. Overall, Stuck Together contains a 90s aesthetic which can be told through all the 90s-themed toys, becoming quite nostalgic for millennials to early Gen-Z players.
Suck Together is very mute audio-wise, only containing environmental noises. This includes the constant sound of the toys’ suction cups and its little panicked neighs and quacks. Interactable items will also exude noises. You wouldn’t be able to hear background music anyways over the real screaming between you and your friends.
There are also extra accessories for the player hidden throughout each level. Players need to be courageous enough to take these alternate pathways to find, like, cool sunglasses!
Final thoughts
Stuck Together is an ultra fun co-op adventure filled with continuous laughs and continuous rage moments. There is not only one way to complete a level, nor are there infinite – regardless the game has lots of replayability potential. The 90s nostalgia paired with the colorfulness will capture the attention of a wide audience, perhaps perfect timing for millennials and Gen-Z still in college or in their early careers, eager to game late into the evening to build or destroy new friendships!
Some levels are painfully long, but otherwise there are really no obvious downsides to the game. The controls are smooth and functional and the environment is quite engaging. Perhaps it would be cool to have a versus mode? Such as racing another pair of players through a level? I am grasping for critiques!
Stuck Together is definitely harder to digest for solo players. I would not recommend playing alone at all. Falling by yourself only leads to constant frustrations . . . it takes two here!
