Play A Short Hike in multiplayer with 99 others in this April Fool's gag
It's developer-created but "unofficial"A Short Hike is one of my favourite games and I've completed it twice, once on PC and once on Switch. Now I'm thinking of having another go thanks to A Short Hike 99, an "unofficial" multiplayer mode created by original developer Adam Robinson-Yu as an April Fool's gag.
Is it still a gag if you actually make the thing?
🐦 A Short Hike 99 - a multiplayer mod 🐦
— adamgryu (@adamgryu) April 1, 2022
this was supposed to be some sort of april fools joke but i don't wanna confuse anyone so I'm just gonna drop some facts
FACTS👇
⭐️ it's a rough mod
🚫 this won't be an official game mode (sorry!)
➡️ test it here https://t.co/6t34s45RTP pic.twitter.com/ExUHFDsbRS
While the mod exists and is playable, it's not and won't be an official mode. That means Robinson-Yu is planning on keeping his server live for only two weeks.
As other tweets explain, this isn't a battle royale mode. There are very few ways for players to interact with one another in A Short Hike, bar standing one each other's heads, and some of the physics objects don't like dealing with multiple people.
Still, the reason I love A Short Hike is that it's a lovely place to hang out. It's nice to hang out in it with other people. Any person I've met in the mod - there are 18 people online right now - has jumped in front of me a few times, as if to say hello, and then we've simply jogged around together for a few minutes. Eventually one of us flies off a ledge and we go our separate ways. The perfect relationship.
If you own A Short Hike on Steam, you can access the mod by right-clicking on the game, going to Properties > Betas, and then opting in to "ashorthike99_mod". If you then load up and start a game, you'll connect automatically to the multiplayer server. If you own the game elsewhere, you can grab the mod/patch from Itch, where you'll also find instructions on how to install it and how to run your own server.