Fighting Games

About fighting games

Hand-to-hand combat, from tournament brawlers with proper combo strings to ragdoll slapstick where neither fighter can reliably stand up. The good ones are readable — you can see a move starting and choose to block it, which is the entire difference between a fighting game and a button-mashing game.

Many support a second player on the same keyboard, which is how they are best played: see 2 player games. Stickman covers the minimalist branch of the genre, which is unusually large here.

Playnix lists 239 fighting games, ordered best-first rather than alphabetically. Most sit in the arcade and adventure categories. The three ranked highest right now are Drunken Boxing 2, Battle Simluator - Counter Stickman and Fractal Combat X. Every one of them loads straight into the page — no download, no plugin, no account.