Total Party Kill is the tidiest bloodbath I have ever encountered Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Total Party Kill is the tidiest bloodbath I have ever encountered Argh-PG. Feature by Christian Donlan Features Editor Updated on 12 Jul 2019 18 comments A wizard, a knight and an archer go into a dungeon. It sounds like the basis for a joke - okay, not a particularly brilliant joke. But in Total Party Kill it's basically the punchline to one. It also sounds like the basis for an RPG. Again: not quite. Total Party Kill is a puzzle game for smartphones and PC that looks like an RPG. You control a three-person RPG party off on an adventure, and you clear each room by sacrificing party members in clever ways. Man, it really does feel like an RPG at times too. The wizard fires an ice bolt. The archer fires arrows. The knight can whack people into the air with his sword. Everything is an instant kill. But there are no enemies. So the wizard turns the archer into an ice block. The archer skewers the knight to a wall. The knight knocks the wizard through a wall of spikes. You know where this is going, probably. It's going where a lot of puzzle games go: stairs and switches. Each room in Total Party Kill is a self-contained puzzle, and the objective of the puzzle is always the same: get someone - anyone - to the door while alive. So if the door's up high, maybe the archer can skewer the knight to the wall and then use his body as a stair. If the door's behind a switch that's located behind spikes, maybe the knight can knock the wizard through the spikes and onto the switch. The genius of it lies in combos. The wizard turns the knight into an ice block, but the ice block isn't in the right place, so the archer fires an arrow to knock it along. Or the archer fires the knight across a gap, and then the wizard turns the knight into an ice block, unskewering him and dropping him onto the switch. There is also, as things progress, an awful lot of standing on people's heads. But at this point i will go no further. Total Party Kill offers a kind of tactical selfishness, a brutal pragmatism as you work out who to sacrifice and in what order. It's a very clean and tidy and ordered blood-bath. And it's an absolute delight. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Features Digital Foundry Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: a new level in graphics performance The Digital Foundry video review - and how the new GPU champion delivers for 4K 120fps gaming. 15 Feature Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way "There's less rage at them, because they didn't end your fun." Feature What games get wrong about horses And what they could do about it. 34 Feature Shout out to all the Overwatch supports - where would we be without you? Merci. 55 Latest Articles Digital Foundry Sennheiser's legendary HD 599 open-back headphones are just £70 at Amazon in the Prime Early Access Sale Comfortable with neutral sound and a wide sound stage. Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. 1 Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 61 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store