Race For Nuts

About

Race For Nuts is a chaotic multiplayer game where you lead a squad of squirrels scrambling to stockpile nuts before a meteor obliterates their planet. Players navigate shifting environments like frozen peaks and scorched deserts, gathering resources while dodging obstacles and rival tribes. The Shaman role adds strategic depth, letting you boost allies’ collection rates or sabotage opponents. Matches blend fast platforming, real-time tactics, and goofy squirrel antics, with options for solo runs or team-based cooperation. The game’s charm lies in its absurd premise and social mechanics. Up to 16 players can clash in chaotic free-for-alls or work together in co-op modes, balancing individual goals with team needs. While not graphically flashy, the retro aesthetic and tight controls keep it accessible for casual players. With roots as a browser-based MMO experiment, it’s a quirky pick for those who enjoy mix-ups of resource management and slapstick competition. The squirrel-meets-space-disaster narrative never takes itself seriously, which is kind of the point.

Storyline

In a galaxy far, far away, on a small planet, there lived a happy squirrel people. They played and had fun all day long, enjoying life. Until one day, a squirrel-astronomer, who looked at the stars every night from his telescope in the tallest pine tree, made a terrible discovery. He saw that a huge meteorite was approaching the planet of squirrels. All night long, he calculated the trajectories and speeds of the home planet and the approaching meteorite. In the morning, he made a sensational announcement for the entire tribe: "very soon the entire planet will perish from a collision with a meteorite!" The tribe was seized by panic! The squirrels rushed around the forest, not knowing what to do now and how to save themselves! And then the squirrels ran to their elder - the wisest hundred-year-old squirrel, and asked what they should do now. And the elder decided to create a council and invited shamans from all the squirrel tribes from all over the planet to it. The council decided to send scouts to the human city to find out how people would save themselves from the coming cataclysm. One of the scouts was lucky. He managed to find out that people had already started building a huge spaceship, on which they wanted to fly away from their home planet. After the general council, the elder gathered the entire tribe and announced that all squirrels would escape from the planet on a human ship. However, the flight could be very long and all squirrels need to stock up on nuts. You are a squirrel from the tribe and your mission is to collect as many nuts as possible, moving with your squad to different corners of the squirrel planet. The task of the Shaman is to help other squirrels collect as many nuts as possible.