Sticks & Strings

About Sticks & Strings

Sticks & Strings is a first-person archery PvP arena shooter for up to 8 players. You aim with a bow and arrow, and every shot counts, with no one-hit kills and no fully automatic weapons. Fifteen match-altering ability items include invisibility, teleport, triple shot, and explosive arrows, across three maps (ruins, forest, graveyard) and two modes (annihilation, deathmatch), with private rooms, quick matchmaking, and AI bots.

Sticks & Strings is a first-person archery PvP multiplayer shooter developed and published by Y-Axis Games LLC, with up to 8 players competing in the same match. The core gameplay revolves around physics-based bow shooting: draw, aim, release; every arrow needs careful judgment, there are no one-hit kills and no fully automatic weapons, and skill decides the outcome. The game includes 15 ability items: Phantom (invisibility, countered by True Sight), Cloud Jumper (leap high for plunging shots), Multi Arrow (fire three arrows at once), Black Powder (explosive arrows), Soul Shot (teleport), and more. Special bows and arrows also appear during matches. Three maps are available, ruins, forest, and graveyard, along with two modes: annihilation and deathmatch. The host can customize win conditions (kill limits, timed survival, round-based, and more), disable ability items to test pure archery, or enable team modes for 4v4, 2v2v2, or even 1v5 battles. The game supports quick join, public and private rooms, AI bots, key rebinding, character color customization, and other options, and includes 35 achievements. Sticks & Strings officially released on Steam on August 31, 2026.