Two runners. Overloading cores. Sixty seconds.

OVERLOAD is a local-versus arena game about dangerous cores and the two people fighting over it. Throw the core at your opponent, or clamp it out of the air and send it back harder. Two hits and you are out. First to two rounds takes the match.

CLAMP, DO NOT PANIC

Catching is a timed tap, not a hold. Land it in the perfect window and the core is yours with its charge intact and the thrower stunned. Miss, and you cannot clamp again for a beat - long enough to lose the round.

POSSESSION IS A TIMER

Carrying the core slows you down, and it cooks you. Hold on too long and it goes off in your hands. Running out the clock is not a strategy.

THE DECK HEATS UP

Every perfect clamp heats the core. Push it far enough and one touch is lethal to whoever it lands on.

TWO PLAYERS, ONE SCREEN

Gamepad or keyboard. A solo mode against a house runner is included.

Built in three days as a game jam entry.