
The equipped weapon is connected to the player's hovering vehicle, and has physically realistic inertia. The game also contains a few different play modes, such as a hunt on worms or a Hammerball game. To be a slow, but well-armored powerhouse using hammers or maces to deliver slow, but crushing blows, or a nimble, but poorly protected sword-wielder, delivering quick, but weak attacks, is entirely up to the player.

The different weapon types offer a certain variety. The demo release had six main types of weapons - four melee and two ranged. In the physics-based gameplay, the player swings large melee weapons and relies on centripetal force to give the object enough kinetic energy to destroy enemies. In battle, a man recognizes the player as the son of a friend, and together they plot the downfall of the Emperor who ordered the destruction of the Gaiars. As the player is discovered to be the last living human Gaiar, he is forced to battle in the arena.

When the player's tribe is destroyed, he is taken prisoner and turned into a slave. The player is a member of a tribe called the Gaiars, a strong race who have battled with large bugs to survive.

It was re-released as a cross-platform game in the third Humble Indie Bundle in 2011, at which time the underlying engine, Haaf's Game Engine was made cross-platform and open-sourced.
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Hammerfight, previously known as Hammerfall, is a 2-dimensional physics-based video game published by Kranx Productions and 1C for Windows in 2009. Hammerfight screenshot showing one of the later levels.
