A browser arena fighter with eight characters, frame-accurate collision and directional hitboxes. No download, no install, no account.
Pixel Fighter is built around the thing that makes fighting games worth learning: the neutral game. Every attack has real startup, active and recovery frames, and hitboxes are directional rather than approximated by a bounding circle. That means spacing matters, whiff punishing works, and the same move can beat or lose to another depending on how the two fighters are positioned when it comes out.
| Action | Keyboard | Touch |
|---|---|---|
| Move | WASD or arrow keys | Virtual stick |
| Attack | J | Attack button |
| Skill | K | Skill button |
| Dodge | Spacebar | Dodge button |
Touch controls are fixed to the window rather than to the render surface, so thumb targets stay in the same place regardless of how the arena is scaled on your device.
Eight fighters, each built around one clear idea rather than a grab bag of moves:
The super meter fills in three segments and each level does something different. Level one enhances a special with projectile invulnerability and faster recovery. Level two is the combo breakout — dash plus special while being hit spends two bars to blast the opponent away, which is your only escape from a lethal juggle. Level three is the cinematic finisher.
Learning when not to spend meter is most of the improvement curve. Players who burn level one on every knockdown never have breakout available when it would have saved the round.
The master game guides carry the full frame data and per-character move lists. The rest of the arcade is at makecade.com/arcade.