12 Mini Battles 2 — Play Free Online

12 Mini Battles 2 is a local two-player party game from Shared Dreams Studio and the follow-up to their earlier 12 MiniBattles. Two people share one device and face off in a run of short minigames, each one a small sports or action contest. Poki released it in January 2024. The build here is an HTML5 game made with GameMaker, and its menu art comes in both English and Spanish.

Controls: one key each

The whole game is played with a single button per player:

Player	Key
Player 1	A
Player 2	L

A and L sit on opposite sides of the keyboard's middle row, so each player has a half of the keyboard to themselves. The same key is used in every minigame; nothing else on the keyboard is needed.

Poki lists 12 Mini Battles 2 as playable on phones and tablets as well as computers, with the screen turned to landscape.

What is in it

As the title says, there are 12 different battles, and by default the game hands you one at random. Poki names several of them: basketball, street racing, duck shooting and foosball, with other challenges alongside them. The game files also contain objects for hockey, tennis, soccer, boxing, tank and plane battles, so the mix runs well beyond the four that Poki names.

The Poki build also carries prompts that offer to let you choose the game yourself, or restart it, in exchange for watching an ad. Picking at random is the normal way to play.

Who it is for

12 Mini Battles 2 is built for two people in the same room. Poki describes it as a game you play locally with friends, and it has no online mode in that description, so you need your opponent beside you at the same screen.

Good to know

• Agree on who is A and who is L before you start, and stay on your own side of the keyboard.
• Because the next battle is random, you will not know which sport is coming until it starts.
• Shared Dreams Studio has more games in the same family on Poki: 12 MiniBattles, MiniMissions and MiniBattles.