Brawlhalla

Brawlhalla is a rebellious platform fighter born of a genre dominated by exactly one game. Unlike that game, it didn’t have 15 years of lovable Nintendo characters to work with, or four iterations’ worth of fans. Instead, Brawlhalla is weird. It’s got a fighter made out of the stars and galaxies of space who battles with a rocket lance, and a mode specifically for throwing snowballs. It’s a serious fighting game for the platform brawler fans who want something fresh and, simultaneously, a crisp and welcoming introduction for gamers who haven’t yet dipped their toes into the genre.

Brawlhalla is a free-to-play fighting game where a host of Legends do battle across multiple stages to prove their dominance and stand tall as the victor. Only with your strength and skill will you be able to oversome your enemies and prove that you are the greatest warrior. You can team up with a friend for a tag team battle or dive head first into 4 player online free for all matches.

Fighting games are difficult to get into. To be truly good at a Tekken, or a Street Fighter, you need to have grown up alongside them, learning their systems, and mastering at least one of their characters’ movesets. In order to stay competitive, you need to keep playing, studying minute details like the number of frames in an animation, hitboxes, and the like. While games like Super Smash Bros. can be played like this, there's an immediacy and simplicity to its unique, fun, mascot-based scrapping that allows players of any skill level to enjoy its offering. It’s a hard balance to achieve, but...