One Strike

It's an amazing tribute to old school fight games! The strongest points of One Strike are the fact of each duel is a mini heart attack at the end, the weight of animations and the screenshake create a very good mood when you cut some necks or strip a belly off! The music and SFX are dramatic and the pixel art graphics are beautiful! Each character has a very particular way of fight, wich is great cause you have to try a lot of different tatics to win. This game has a very cool mood into the samurai way-of-life!

Fantastic in singleplayer but takes a lot of fiddling with the controller configuration to get working. Two player mode does not work. Developer has stated they do not intend to fix this major oversight. Rather disappointing given the high quality of the music and gameplay otherwise.

One Strike is a simple, yet complex, 1 on 1 fighting game. All it takes is one hit and you're out! It features 7 characters, each with their own style of fighting. It is great to pick up and play a few games with your friends. It offers multiplayer and single player, and some game modes that offer a little variety. It is a great casual fighter to play in small sessions, and definitely worth $4.99. I also own this on the Nintendo Switch, which is where it shines best. If you happen to own a Nintendo Switch, I'd recommend that version for its portability.

(The below video is of my FIRST first impressions of the gameplay, the review after more time spent with it follows) https://youtu.be/WJHWQtyeRLg A novel one on one fighter in the vein of Bushido Blade, Dive Kick and Nidhogg where the key to victory is not with insane complex combos or special moves but with quick timing and anticipating your opponent's own moves because as the title implies, it only takes ONE STRIKE to down a combatant. While it appears relatively simple on the surface, each fighter has their own unqiue movements and attacks, making for a variety of match ups and thus strategies. In the mold of "easy to learn, hard to master", it actually makes it a sell for both casual and hardcore players as multiplayer with friends can easily add as much depth as you are prepared to give it in return. Full disclosure, I was only able to play a sizable amount of the single player only, yet the appeal of verses mode is clear. Against the AI, it did provide a good challenge, with ...

One Strike looks like a crappy 2D retro pixel fighter/versus arcade game, but it isn't. It's more of a crappy 2D retro pixel QTE/twitch game. There's no health bars, it's one hit, one kill, so there's none of the interesting component of these games where you adjust your strategy and work hard picking the right moves at the right times...instead, this is a game of watching the enemy then striking in response to the right stimuli... yeah, it's a QTE reflex game. And it's bad, real bad. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The artwork here is terrible, it's a blend of old retro pixel "art" used as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics, with intersitual screens featuring some of the most amateurish "Baby's First Wacom Tablet" style drawings I've ever hurt my eyes on. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget to arrange someone who can do graphics properly, or lack of talent, regardless, the ov...

A fun proof of concept easy to pick up arcade fighting game. The features and game modes are quite limited, but for a game this cheap and simple, I give it a pass. There are techs and tricks to be learned here of course, but you'll find the exploits soon enough. Parts of the soundtrack are really good tho.

It's that retro game that you get for less than a Coke so why not. Half an hour ago I finished the game three times, 2 in arcade mode, 1 in 1 kills mode, both in easy difficulty. I won't say it is a fighting game because you only get one attack move of each character, and one hit will kill for you and your opponent, timing and when to attack/defiance is the core. Like most fighting games, characters in One Strike are not all that balanced, from the character selection page I picked that guy with a long katana to hit my opponent at a longer distance, and he gave me the first successful run. As the achievement popped up, I noticed players using another guy had the highest accomplished rate and that's when I realized Hangaku, the guy who uses a ridiculously long hook is almost a cheat in the game. His hook can go more than half of the screen, with the longest melee weapon in the game I win easily in 5 seconds. The only guy who may be a threat is the ninja throws Shuriken, but he wouldn...

Really cool game. I always really liked the one hit death match format and this kind of gory samurai themes, and this game handles them pretty well, I gotta check 2 strikes too, it looks pretty amazing so far. also if you like this game check slice dice rice too.

First this looked like trash to me, but surprise, surprise, this had indeed depth and requires skill to master it. The graphics and the music are not my thing, but the animations are fine. I totally hate the controls but with a little help of a custom controller layout all is well and good.

The game is super simple and fun! First played it on switch and bought it on steam. The only thing missing is button remapping