Broforce

Broforce is a run-and-gun platformer developed by Free Lives, a studio based in Cape Town, South Africa, and published by Devolver Digital, released for PC in 2015 after a long early-access run, with a PlayStation 4 version following. It is a loving, screaming parody of the American action movie: players control the Broforce, a paramilitary roster of legally-distinct action heroes, from Rambro and B.A. Broracus to Bro Hard, MacBrover, and Brominator, each rescued mid-mission from prisoner cages and each playing completely differently. Levels are fully destructible, physics-driven sandboxes of terrorists, jungles, and doomsday devices that inevitably end in a slow-motion escape as everything detonates behind an American flag and a freedom-scored guitar sting. It supports four-player cooperative chaos, and its pixel-art carnage escalates from satisfying to apocalyptic. Critically well received and a lasting multiplayer favorite, it is also the sharpest possible footnote to the reimported-Americana thesis: the most concentrated dose of American action-hero iconography in games was distilled by a small studio in South Africa, a country even further from the source material than Japan or Scotland. It is, in effect, the entire Most American Games argument compiled into a single running joke that plays brilliantly, and it keeps growing through free updates that add ever more bros.