Stickman Brawler

Stickman Brawler asks a question before the fighting starts. You take three abilities into the battlefield and no more, so the run is shaped by that choice long before you meet anything worth using them on.

The abilities are not variations on a punch. A swipe kick clears the space directly around you, a summoned golem fights on your behalf while you deal with something else, and a transformation into a giant changes the scale of the fight entirely. Three of those together behave differently from any of them alone.

The opposition often arrives in crowds, and there are one-on-one bouts as well with your opponent named across the top. Either way the choice is what matters. Something that handles a line of enemies neatly can be useless against a group closing from both sides, and you find out which you picked only when it happens.

Between runs there is a shop: town resources buy power-ups, achievements unlock, and cards collect into new skins. It plays in an endless format, so a run ends when you run out rather than when a level does.