How to play
guchipa.io is a free multiplayer game in your browser: an endless battle between three teams, Rock, Paper and Scissors, on a big white grid. No download, no account. Type a name, pick a team and play.
The name comes from gu, choki, pa, the Japanese words for rock, scissors and paper.
The one rule
- Paper breaks Rock
- Rock breaks Scissors
- Scissors break Paper
So every player has one team they can hunt, one team they must run from, and one team that's on their side. A green ring around a player means you can hurt them; a red ring means they can hurt you.
Grow, break, survive
- Collect the small coloured dots to grow.
- Bump into or shoot the team you beat to knock pieces off them. The pieces fall as glowing balls that anyone can collect.
- When a player gets too small, they break and drop everything they have left.
- Bigger players hit harder and take less damage, but they are slower and slowly shrink, so nobody stays on top forever.
- You can't break a giant on your own easily. Team up with your teammates: ganging up and stealing a fight from someone else is how big players fall.
Skills
Every team has a shot to attack the team it beats, and a defence against the team that beats it.
| Team | Shot | Defence |
|---|---|---|
| Rock | Pebble: a heavy stone that flies straight | Ground Pound: a shockwave that rolls where you aim, smashes paper planes and throws Papers far away. Scissors caught in it take damage. |
| Paper | Paper Plane: flies far and straight | Glide: fold into a paper plane and zoom away. Nothing can hit you while gliding. |
| Scissors | Spinning Blade: flies out and comes back like a boomerang | Blade Whirl: spin your blades to send pebbles flying back at the Rock that shot them and throw Rocks away. A good parry gives you a speed boost. |
Feeding: every shot costs 5% of your size. Hit a teammate with it and they get that size. Use it to grow one big player for your team.
Controls
| Computer | Phone / tablet | |
|---|---|---|
| Move | Point with the mouse | Drag your thumb on the left side |
| Shoot | Left click | Shoot button (aims for you) |
| Defence | Space or right click | Defence button |
Tips
- Small is fast: use your speed to escape and to steal glowing balls from fights.
- Watch the red dots on the minimap: they show fights happening right now.
- Save your defence for the team that beats you. It's your way out of a bad fight.
- Don't spam shots: they cost size. Aim, and feed your teammates when nobody's around.