Toasted Rivalries

Play directly: https://toastedrivalries.com

Your opinion is your team. Your team has to win.

Toasted Rivalries is a quick browser party game built around 21 St. Louis rivalries — provel vs. mozzarella, Highway 40 vs. I-64, Bread Co. vs. Panera, the Halloween joke-toll tradition, calling things "warshed" instead of washed. Each round you pick the side you actually agree with, and then you fight to defend it.

Designed to be played with friends in a few minutes, in a browser tab, on a couch or a phone.

Two modes

• Siege. Lane-pushing combat. Minions march, towers fire, you upgrade, you push for the enemy base.
• Deathmatch. Open-arena PvP. Five lives per team, a moving coin fountain in the middle, no minions. First team to run the other dry — or whoever has more lives left at the buzzer — wins.

Two player counts

• 1v1 runs the lying mechanic: opinions are submitted in secret, and "you both said the same thing?" is the punchline.
• 2v2 runs the bucket mechanic: you publicly walk up and join a side, and if you wait too long, the game tells you what you like.

How to play

• Open the page on any modern browser, desktop or mobile.
• WASD or arrows to move. SPACE to fire ranged. E to build / upgrade.
  • On mobile: virtual joystick and touch buttons.
• Hit CREATE LOBBY, pick a mode and a player count, share the lobby with whoever's playing.
• Argue over the rivalry afterward. That part isn't in the game.

Why

The rivalry premise started as a joke about how every St. Louis conversation eventually circles back to provel cheese. We kept making jokes, then we made a game out of them. There are no leaderboards, no progression, no tutorials — just a short loop you can play with anyone and the comedy lands without context, mostly.

Credits

• Design — Wes Ehrlichman and Mike Lee
• Development — Wes Ehrlichman
• Art — Mike Lee