Street Fighting Games

Two fighters, a flat stage and a timer — the classic duel.

Street Fight : Beat Em Up

Street Fight King of the Gang

Street Fight Match 3d Game

Street Fight Space Station

Street Fight Match

Street Fight Rage

Fan brawlers, not the arcade original

The name on this hub comes from the arcade series that taught a generation to throw a fireball with a quarter-circle motion, but none of the games here are that series. They are third-party, fan-made and inspired fighters from licensed providers: browser brawlers that borrow the stance, the health bars at the top of the screen and the round-based duel, without any affiliation with or endorsement from the original's publisher. What they share is a feel. Two fighters face each other on a flat stage, a timer counts down, and the match is decided by spacing, blocking and knowing when to commit to a big move.

The label also gathers the wider street-fight crowd: side-scrolling beat-em-ups where you walk right and clear a block of thugs, stick-figure fight clubs and blocky karate tournaments. For the whole one-on-one genre see fighting games; the gloves-only version lives under boxing games, and the ring-and-ropes kind under wrestling games.

Reading a round

A good browser fighter is readable at a glance. Each character has a light, a medium and a heavy attack, a jump, a crouch and a block, and the special moves come from short input strings — a direction and a button, or a quick roll of the stick. Rounds are short, best of three, with a health bar that refills between them. Learning the game means learning distance: where a kick can reach, when a jump can be punished, and how much a block chips away. The better titles add super meters that fill as you land hits and spend on one screen-clearing move.

The beat-em-up side plays differently. You move in a wider lane, fight several enemies at once, and the skill is crowd control — keeping the pack on one side and turning around before the bottle hits. Both shapes are quick to pick up and sit comfortably beside the wider action games and the classic arcade games shelf; the martial-arts flavored ones overlap with the ninja games hub.

Categories:ActionArcade

Two players, one keyboard

Fighters are the original couch genre and the browser keeps that. Most titles here map one player to WASD and the other to the arrow keys, with a pair of attack keys for each, so two people can duel on one laptop without any setup. Solo play runs through an arcade ladder of opponents that get faster and meaner, ending with a boss who cheats a little. On a phone the controls become a virtual stick and buttons; that is fine for a beat-em-up and workable for a duel, though the precise inputs are easier with real keys.

Nothing here needs a download, and a title that pauses on its opening screen is loading sprite sheets, not installing. For more head-to-head games on one machine go to two player games; for the stick-figure fight clubs the stickman games hub has the full set, and the blade-first duels are under sword games.

Categories:2 Player