Victory Road

I really enjoy this game for what it is. It's been abandoned so I don't recommend buying it, but I do wish there were more games striving to do what this game does. You coach, train, and feed a boxer from a coach's perspective. You spectate their boxing matches, with the option to toss in buffs to your boxer. The fighting animation is very nice/fluid and manages to take real boxing strategy and make it flashy. It's a shame, because a bit more variety is all this game seems to be missing to give it extra hours of fun. Beyond that, some sort of end goal that spices things up and this would be easy to call finished. I still come back and play it every now and then, but it is unfortunately abandoned.

I'm genuinely astonished at how much I like this game. A few minutes in I thought "oh, so it's a spreadsheet game with fun graphics." And I mean, that itch needs scratched some times. 30 hours later, I've come to realize this is a remarkably good game made all the better by the truly outstanding pixel art and sound. It's still in Early Access, but in this case, that just means more upside - the game is totally playable and just a heck of a lot of fun.