MerFight

needs a lot of polish in everything other than the gameplay. as janky as the animations can look it plays nice and smooth in the hands and has a good amount of sauce. huge potential here

Really neat mechanics, and the story mode is awesome!

i glaze this game at locals but don't play it enough!

I've been aware of Mattrified Games for a while, and liked what I played of Battle High 2+. This game could be considered an evolution of his previous efforts. This game's setting and roster fulfills a fantasy not represented in most other fighting games: aquatic people. And those characters are very unique and based on various seas creatures. The 3d models are a little basic, but with the outfits and fish features they make up for it. There are both decent single player offerings -- trials and multiple paths of story mode -- and online offerings -- strong netcode. Obviously there's offline versus too. You can unlock many cool costumes and colors in the single player modes, although some alternate costumes are already offered. It easy blows many AAA fighting game releases out of the water.

This game is really fun. It's like a mashup of the best stuff from several fighting games, rolled into a clever aquatic theme with totally original characters and plenty of humor. You like 2d fighters? Buy this thing.

It's an underrated but super solid indie fighting game, 4btn (lk,hk,lp,hp) with a gauge for activating "ex" moves and a pop cancel mechanism that allows cancelling out of most attacks including normals and even air dashing. The gauges management is pretty strict though so the gameplay is not super fast, but still on the fast side. It plays a bit like SF6 I'd say and every character seems pretty unique. There are combo trials, practice mode is solid, arcade mode, vs cpu (AI's not the best though) and ofc online play. Definitely grab it if you're a fighting game fan!