Head 2 Head

[h1] Easy to play fighting game with plenty of cool attacks and fairly simple gameplay. Press directional buttons to dash back and forth, mix it up with attack, air-attack, anti-air-attack. Special moves require skulls which you obtain for defeating foes in survival mode. [/h1]

im not playing this anymore, for 3 reasons. 1: it's been abandoned in Early Access. this has been without an update since 2024. 2: the developers are releasing a game in 2027 now, and that game looks 1-1 almost identical to this one. which I feel like might be a sign that, even if that game is better, they did just abandon this title in early access without any heads up or word of mouth, really. 3: the last time i was interested in the company in any way, they were encouraging posts of GenAI in their Discord. (there is no GenAI involved in the making of this game to be clear, however the discord matter's still a red flag on my end.) and even if that last one wasn't true, aside from visuals, it's just...not all that engaging by yourself. it's very dead set on you playing with others. cosmetic features are cool, but aside from an arcade mode, when i played it it just felt like i needed other people on board to enjoy it. and even then, lobbies were dead quiet, making one was a waiting game and most of the time led to people just quitting out the gate because...I dunno, and it on the whole just felt...flat. cool animations, some nice opportunities and characters felt different at p…

[quote][b]Note: Dead PvP game[/b] This game contains no meaningful single player content. There's no viably populated servers/active player population. This game cannot be played as intended.[/quote] This is a fighter versus game where the developers looked at all the elements that make arcade fighter/versus games successful, and removed them all. Instead, they tried to use simple and uninteresting dash mechanics and clunky controls, thinking that's what gamers really wanted. They were wrong, and this failed. It's a clunky, unpolished mess even if you can get past the way the developers designed the gameplay to be bad, on purpose. So, "Head 2 Head" is a dead PvP game. Why did it fail? It's video game autopsy time! [i]Almost every PvP exclusive game on Steam fails.[/i] Only a tiny proportion of them "go viral". This game failed for many of the same reasons those others fail. The chief of which is the developer thinking that their game will "go viral" without actually creating any reason for it do so. Competition amongst PvP centric games is extreme, and there's only a finite player base to appeal to. This game failed to reach any kind of critical mass and died as a re…

plenty of people have tried simplifying the fighting game genre in a lot of ways, but this one hits a very calculated sweet spot most fall short of. also dear god that soundtrack RIPS.

its a cool game if annoying to setup, but the developer kinda went off the deep end after charlie kirk died

le grappler gets 100 percent unbreakables,10/10