Games Like Brawlhalla

Rivals of Aether II is the sequel to the hit indie fighting game, Rivals of Aether. Play as both new and returning elemental fighters in the next generation of platform fighters.

Why similar: Fighting 31.1% ★, 2D Fighter 17.8%, 4 Player Local 12.6%, Local Multiplayer 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A polished competitive platform fighter built around aerial movement, edge-guarding, unique characters, and deep one-on-one or multiplayer combat.

RIVALS OF AETHER is an indie fighting game where warring civilizations summon the power of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. Play with up to four players either locally or online.

Why similar: Fighting 40.4% ★, 2D Fighter 23.5%, Local Multiplayer 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%, 4 Player Local 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its elemental fighters, responsive movement, and emphasis on recovering and launching opponents make it one of Brawlhalla's closest alternatives.

Flash Party brings another major update: new colorful stickers, weekly free heroes, community event trophy wall... The fun and exciting fighting party continues! Flash Party is a platform fighter. Attack, jump, dodge, and block... throw your opponents off-stage with all sorts of moves!

Why similar: Fighting 30.4% ★, 2D Fighter 18.5%, eSports 11.9% ★, Local Multiplayer 8.4%, 2D Platformer 8%

Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play platform brawler with directional attacks, aerial recoveries, item-style chaos, and a large cast of unlockable fighters.

Fraymakers is the ultimate customizable platform fighting game, featuring a cast of some of indie gaming's biggest icons. Duke it out with up to 4 players and call on assists to help out in the heat of battle. Create and play custom characters, stages, modes, and more for infinite fun!

Why similar: Fighting 31.2% ★, 2D Fighter 19.7%, 4 Player Local 13.8%, Local Multiplayer 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A highly customizable platform fighter with familiar knockback combat, assists, extensive stages, and support for competitive local or online play.

Slap City is a Seriously Fun platform fighter with a perfect mix of characters from the Ludosity universe. Play Locally or Online. Slap it hard in Ranked or fast and loose in Slap Ball game mode. We are the original inventors of Clutch Technology.

Why similar: Fighting 47.4% ★, 2D Fighter 17.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%, 4 Player Local 7.4%, Platformer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This indie platform fighter captures the same freeform movement and off-stage combat while adding a wonderfully weird cast and powerful slapstick moves.

Brawlout is the platform fighting game, designed for couch play, online ranked matches and competitive tournaments. Now at 2.0!

Why similar: Fighting 46.9% ★, 2D Fighter 23.4%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Platformer 8.1%, 4 Player Local 3%

Why You'll Like It: Its aggressive platform-fighter combat, rage-powered special moves, and local or online matches make it a very direct Brawlhalla-style option.

Rushdown Revolt is a platform fighter featuring 12 dazzlingly unique characters and best-in-the-business rollback netcode.

Why similar: Fighting 31.3% ★, eSports 19.5% ★, 2D Fighter 18.9%, 2D Platformer 7.3%, Platformer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A speed-focused platform fighter with advanced movement systems and combo-heavy combat for players who want a more technical Brawlhalla-like duel.

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 lets you duke it out with the biggest and best fighting character roster yet! Choose your favorite brawlers, master their unique move sets, and use all-new powerful Supers to land the finishing blow with friends or across a unique, roguelike player campaign!

Why similar: 2D Fighter 31.3%, eSports 27.9% ★, 2D Platformer 11.3%, Cartoony 8.7%, Fighting 7.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: A fast platform fighter with multi-directional attacks, edge play, supers, and a character-driven roster suited to casual or competitive matches.

Roof Rage is a Martial Arts Platform Fighter featuring epic rooftop battles. Play with up to 8 players locally or 1vs1 online.

Why similar: Fighting 33.4% ★, 2D Fighter 20.9%, Local Multiplayer 11.3%, 4 Player Local 10.4%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art platform fighter with classic arcade controls, aerial launches, and stage-centric versus combat.

Stick Fight is a physics-based couch/online fighting game where you battle it out as the iconic stick figures from the golden age of the internet.

Why similar: Fighting 31% ★, 2D Fighter 14.4%, Multiplayer 14.2%, 4 Player Local 11.8%, Local Multiplayer 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps Brawlhalla's elaborate combat for physics, weapons, and destructible stages, but delivers the same quick multiplayer mayhem.

KNIGHT CLUB + Is a casual 2-4 player action platform-fighting game that brings traditional fighting game elements into an unlocked, free form movement playstyle.

Why similar: Fighting 29.9% ★, 2D Fighter 23.8%, 4 Player Local 10.1%, Platformer 7.8%, Multiplayer 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its medieval arena duels combine simple attacks, platforms, environmental hazards, and frantic multiplayer eliminations.

Brawl it out with your Nickelodeon favorites in epic platform battles.

Why similar: 2D Fighter 30.7%, eSports 25.3% ★, Multiplayer 14.7%, 2D Platformer 10.2%, Cartoony 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This straightforward platform brawler emphasizes quick attacks, recoveries, stage hazards, and couch-friendly multiplayer matches.

Fighties is a fast paced 2D platform fighter. Choose from a wide selection of Fighties each with their own unique play style. Beat down your opponents to become the strongest Fightie of them all.

Why similar: Fighting 24.3% ★, 2D Fighter 14.8%, 4 Player Local 11.3%, Local Multiplayer 9.5%, Local Co-Op 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A compact multiplayer platform brawler with arcade-like movement and a focus on quick, lighthearted versus rounds.

You are an overpowered gladiator with the skills to destroy all who stand before you. The only problem is, so is everyone else! Enter the Domiverse for fast and frantic fun in this party brawler made for up to four players in local play.

Why similar: Fighting 22.4% ★, 2D Fighter 17%, eSports 13.4% ★, 4 Player Local 12.6%, Local Multiplayer 11%

Why You'll Like It: A local-focused platform fighter whose simple controls and distinct character abilities make it easy to jump into chaotic matches.

Fight with grappling hooks in this party brawler for one to four players. Play as a treasure hunting cat or a land swimming shark as you swing around the stage taking out your opponents.

Why similar: Fighting 32.2% ★, 2D Fighter 21.9%, 4 Player Local 12.3%, Local Co-Op 8.2%, Platformer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This weapon-driven pixel platform fighter centers on grappling mobility, aerial positioning, and knocking rivals from compact arenas.

Banging beats and mad style, Lethal League Blaze is the most intense ball game you can play online with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Fighting 35.6% ★, 2D Fighter 24.8%, Local Multiplayer 11.2%, 4 Player Local 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This stylish competitive arena game replaces direct attacks with a dangerously accelerating ball while retaining quick reactions and positioning battles.

Enter a world of never-ending battle! Duel with up to 4 local challengers and scramble after gems, or take control of your favorite characters, many playable for the first time ever, in Story Mode. Master every move, explore a vast array of items and locales, and discover new revelations.

Why similar: Fighting 58.1% ★, Local Multiplayer 16.5%, Action 15.2%, Indie 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A tight four-player platform fighter where movement, pickups, stage hazards, and knockback create lively local battles.

Yandere-Chan, Teslakid, Cole Black, Breakbone and more crossover characters in one fighting game! Be the last man standing in this intense and action packed platform fighter.

Why similar: Fighting 27.5% ★, 2D Fighter 15.5%, 4 Player Local 13.7%, Local Co-Op 10.3%, Local Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful indie platform fighter built around knockouts, varied characters, arenas, and approachable multiplayer brawling.

TowerFall Ascension is the definitive version of the hit archery combat game. Inspired by classics from the golden age of couch multiplayer, it's a 4-player local party game centering around hilarious, intense versus matches. The core mechanics are simple and accessible, but hard to master and combat is fierce.

Why similar: 2D Fighter 25.8%, Local Multiplayer 17.9%, Local Co-Op 13.5%, 4 Player Local 12.8%, Fighting 8.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: Although centered on archery, its precision platform movement, dodging, pickups, and local competitive rounds create similarly intense arena battles.

Spiders with laser swords! Duel to the death against your friends or choose to team up and hold back swarms of savage enemies. Swing, stab and shoot with style, effortlessly performing movie-worthy parkour.

Why similar: Fighting 28.5% ★, 2D Fighter 19.4%, Local Multiplayer 13%, 4 Player Local 11.3%, Local Co-Op 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Physics-heavy spider duels with lightsabers, hazards, and swinging movement offer a hilarious alternative for groups that enjoy Brawlhalla's unpredictability.

Meme animals strike again!! Let the meme battle goes into NEXT LEVEL!! With varied stages, items and support up to 4 players local and online, “Fight of Animals: Arena” will bring you a brand new Brawler experience!! Let the fight begin!!

Why similar: Fighting 24.8% ★, 2D Fighter 15.3%, 4 Player Local 14.8%, eSports 11.4% ★, Local Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A goofy but capable 2D arena fighter with online and local bouts, humorous characters, and accessible competitive play.

Gang Beasts is a silly multiplayer party game with surly gelatinous characters, brutal slapstick fight sequences, and absurd hazardous environments, set in the mean streets of Beef City.

Why similar: Fighting 27.6% ★, 4 Player Local 14.5%, Local Co-Op 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Local Multiplayer 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its wobbly physics and environmental knockouts make it an excellent party-oriented choice for players who value Brawlhalla's silly free-for-all side.

Welcome to Rumble Arena, join the fight and battle with epic legends and gods from all over the Galaxy! Master your favourite hero and become a true champion in real-time multiplayer battles! Or train with AI dummies and crush them while we still can!

Why similar: Fighting 66% ★, Multiplayer 21.5%, Action 7.4%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play arena fighter with accessible controls, colorful characters, and multiplayer brawls centered on ring-outs.

The WILDEST ANIME FIGHT. Fly super fast, smash your friends through skyscrapers and break the planet with one punch! Up to 4 players local & 2 online. Now with workshop for INFINITE CHARACTERS!

Why similar: Fighting 28.3% ★, 2D Fighter 17.6%, 4 Player Local 13.9%, Local Multiplayer 11.1%, Local Co-Op 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A flashy arcade brawler where fighters smash each other through arenas and environments, emphasizing spectacle and easy multiplayer fun.

A FEW QUICK MATCHES is a fast-paced, 1-4 player platform fighter that lets you bring old-school stick battles to life! play with your friends locally, or challenge players online in this flash-inspired spectacle!

Why similar: Fighting 28.8% ★, 2D Fighter 23.5%, 4 Player Local 14.6%, Local Multiplayer 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Lock in! Samurai GUNN 2 is a bloody and brutally fast platform fighter for players who like short rounds and intense action. Free Edition out now!

Why similar: 2D Fighter 26.1%, Fighting 26% ★, 4 Player Local 17.5%, Local Multiplayer 12.2%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its ultra-fast sword-and-gun duels reward sharp movement, timing, and reading opponents in compact multiplayer arenas.

Superfighters Deluxe is a unique action game that combines brawling, shooting and platforming in dynamic sandboxy 2D levels. Lots of weapons and fun gameplay systems interlock to create absurd action-movie chaos.

Why similar: Multiplayer 22.8%, Local Multiplayer 18%, Local Co-Op 16.4%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Platformer 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A fast side-view arena combat game full of weapons, destructible environments, platforming, and local or online multiplayer chaos.

The rules are simple. Reach the other side and kill anyone that stands in your way. Deftly parry and rend their throats, riddle their bowels with arrows, or squish their brains between your toes. The wurm cares not for chivalry.

Why similar: Fighting 39% ★, Local Multiplayer 20.7%, 2D Fighter 12.2%, Multiplayer 9.8%, eSports 7.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist fencing brawler focused on tense one-on-one momentum swings, weapon pickups, and fighting for stage control.

KungFu Kickball is the fighting-sports game where the best ball kicker wins! Punch, kick, and headbutt your way across the field to smash the ball into your opponents' bell and rack up points!

Why similar: Fighting 39.8% ★, Action 13.4%, Multiplayer 13%, Local Co-Op 10.9%, Indie 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This competitive hybrid combines fighting moves, platforming, and a ball-scoring objective for energetic local or online rivalries.

Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.

Why similar: Multiplayer 25.2%, Local Multiplayer 22.8%, 4 Player Local 22%, Local Co-Op 9.8%, Platformer 8%

Why You'll Like It: This rapid-fire local and online arena game offers compact platform stages, instant rounds, absurd weapons, and endlessly replayable group competition.

Paladins is the ultimate fantasy team-based shooter experience, with over 50 customizable Champions fighting in 5v5 action across a diverse Realm of modes and maps!

Why similar: Multiplayer 46.1%, Online Co-Op 22.7%, Co-op 14.6%, Fantasy 9%, Action 7.6%

Play Smash Legends for free! Smash Legends is an exciting PVP action brawler where fairy tale Legends engage in a lively battle. Play solo or in a 3v3 team battle with your friends! Play now with Smashers from all over the world on Steam, iOS, and Android!

Why similar: Fighting 38.8% ★, eSports 21.9% ★, Multiplayer 13.1%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Co-op 9.5%

Dynasty Feud is a competitive, team-based, fast-paced platform brawler for 2-4 players. Play either local or online and show off your skills with 40 characters, one-hit kills, multiple fighting skills and a lot of style.

Why similar: Fighting 30.5% ★, 2D Fighter 18.2%, 4 Player Local 17.2%, Local Multiplayer 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.9%

DRAGON BALL FighterZ is born from what makes the DRAGON BALL series so loved and famous: endless spectacular fights with its all-powerful fighters.

Why similar: Fighting 49.4% ★, 2D Fighter 20.3%, eSports 9.7% ★, Local Multiplayer 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.3%

BATTLERITE​ ​is​ ​an​ ​action-packed​ ​team​ ​arena​ ​brawler.​ ​Experience​ ​the​ ​unique​ ​combination​ ​of​ top-down​ ​shooter​ meets​ ​fast-paced​ ​fighting​ ​game and challenge ​friends​ ​and​ foes​ ​in​ ​a​ ​battle​ ​of reaction. The Arena awaits!

Why similar: Fighting 46.3% ★, Multiplayer 34.4%, eSports 13.8% ★, Action 5.6%

Ninza is a free multiplayer game like no other! Instead of directly attacking your opponents, you crush them by pushing pieces of the level. Embrace chaos and dive into an entirely new level of frenzied and creative gameplay, where the environment itself becomes both your weapon and your enemy.

Why similar: Fighting 18.6% ★, 4 Player Local 15.4%, 2D Fighter 14.7%, Local Multiplayer 13.8%, Local Co-Op 12%

A fighting game designed from the ground up to be so easy to control that even non-fighting game players can play it, yet deep enough to play in tournaments. Vibrant graphics and excellent online play.

Why similar: Fighting 38.7% ★, 2D Fighter 26.7%, Local Multiplayer 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Fantasy 3.7%

The legendary fighting franchise is back with over-the-top action, a wild cast of combatants, rocking reactive music, and C-C-C-COMBO BREAKERS!!! Choose your ultimate combatants each with fluid animations, unique combat tactics, and enthralling special attacks.

Why similar: Fighting 57.9% ★, 2D Fighter 22.6%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Local Multiplayer 5.1%, Action 3%

Counterpick Labs is a free platform fighter where you mix and match gear to build your perfect loadout. Featuring a single player story mode, a roguelike PvP mode where you earn powerful upgrades as you fight, and a classic no-frills PvP mode.

Why similar: Fighting 39.9% ★, 2D Fighter 26.8%, Multiplayer 10%, 2D Platformer 8.1%, Cartoony 6.9%

Super Slime Arena is a 16-bit style, party-fighting game embracing equal parts accessibility and chaos. One attack, one hitpoint, all slime! Use nearly any controller in fast and frantic 2-50+ multiplayer matches across the many lands of Planet Blorb!

Why similar: Fighting 31.3% ★, 4 Player Local 18.1%, 2D Fighter 14.3%, Local Multiplayer 13.9%, Multiplayer 9.3%

Lethal League is a competitive projectile fighting game where you have to hit an anti-gravity ball into the face of your opponent to win. The ball speeds up with every strike, up to explosively extreme velocities. Play intense local matches with friends and foes, challenge yourself in the singleplayer mode or battle it out online.

Why similar: Fighting 38.6% ★, 2D Fighter 19%, Local Multiplayer 13.2%, 4 Player Local 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Real-time natural selection! Who will survive, a bear with a cheese or a shark with a shotgun? King of the Couch: Zoovival is the latest evolution of the platform battle arena game genre! Fight as an animal, with a wide assortment of weapons, on multiple unique battle arenas in King of the Couch: Zoovival.

Why similar: Fighting 27.7% ★, 4 Player Local 16.2%, 2D Fighter 13%, Local Multiplayer 10.6%, Local Co-Op 9.6%

Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms.

Why similar: Fighting 37.5% ★, Local Multiplayer 21.9%, 2D Fighter 17.8%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Local Co-Op 3.7%

A spellslinging dueling game for up to 4 players. Choose among seven cracked mages and use their unique abilities to shoot down your opponent’s magical flask while defending yours! Destroy your friends (and loved ones) in local or online modes!

Why similar: Fighting 23.5% ★, 2D Fighter 15.8%, eSports 14.4% ★, 4 Player Local 12.5%, Local Multiplayer 9.2%

A couch/online game where you battle your friends with unique and wild abilities. There are many choices such as a shrink ray, creating black holes, stopping time and attaching a rocket engine to the stage to send it flying. Choose a combination that synergizes well to win the round!

Why similar: 2D Fighter 22.3%, 4 Player Local 18.2%, Local Co-Op 12.5%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9.7%

Join 40+ million players in SMITE, the Battleground of the Gods! Wield Thor’s hammer, turn your foes to stone as Medusa, or flex your divine power as one of 100+ other mythological icons. Become a God and play FREE today!

Why similar: Multiplayer 55.3%, Co-op 27.7%, Action 11.1%, Casual 5.9%

Have you got what it takes to be a Wanba Warrior? Step into the absurd world of calligraphy combat and prepare to lay the smackdown upon all who dare to oppose you, dishing out damage with your chosen ink brush of brutality! highly recommend playing with controllers.

Why similar: Fighting 29% ★, eSports 16.3% ★, 2D Fighter 13.2%, Local Co-Op 11.1%, Local Multiplayer 10.6%

Bounty Battle is the ultimate indie fighting game: a new multiplayer 2D fighter, where you can pit your favourite indie heroes against one another! Indie heroes from games like Guacamelee! and Darkest Dungeon, to Dead Cells, Owlboy & more battle it out in this fighter frenzy.

Why similar: Fighting 35.3% ★, 2D Fighter 23.5%, 4 Player Local 13.8%, Local Multiplayer 13.7%, Cartoony 6.9%

Swordplay and freerun through the internet and on a couch against your friends in a team brawl. Throw bombs, use smokescreens and climb your way to the enemy base. Choose your side as a Pirate or an Assassin and feed the Artifact with souls of your enemies.

Why similar: Fighting 25.4% ★, 4 Player Local 15.3%, Local Co-Op 12.8%, Local Multiplayer 11.4%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Chaotic Party Arr-cade Action for up to 12 players! Be the first to plunder all the treasure, sink the enemy ship, or defeat their captain. Featuring local & online play, crossplay, 18 stages, 30+ modify-arrs, and a single-player campaign!

Why similar: 2D Fighter 20.4%, 4 Player Local 13.6%, Local Multiplayer 11.9%, Local Co-Op 11%, Online Co-Op 9.4%

Control your hands and destroy friendships in this physics-based couch/online fighting game. Use your elastic arms to swing, slingshot, and parkour around the highly dynamic maps. Wield powerful weapons or use your bare fists to bonk your opponents!

Why similar: 2D Fighter 20.2%, Fighting 18.4% ★, 4 Player Local 13.2%, Local Multiplayer 9.8%, Local Co-Op 8.8%

--Main Stage Game at Evo 2022!-- The ultimate Skullgirls experience: Featuring 14 hand-animated characters, fully voiced story mode, countless palettes, and unparalleled GGPO-based multiplayer netcode.

Why similar: Fighting 52% ★, 2D Fighter 26%, Local Multiplayer 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Action 1.6%

THE COLLISION IS INEVITABLE! THE IMPACT WILL BE UNAVOIDABLE! Cross over between 4 different universes! Play as characters from the BlazBlue, Persona, Under Night In-Birth, and (for the first time ever in a fighting game), RWBY series!

Why similar: Fighting 44% ★, 2D Fighter 31.8%, eSports 10% ★, Local Multiplayer 6.7%, Multiplayer 4.2%

Jelly Brawl: Classic is a FREE sticky and destructive multiplayer party game where you gotta jiggle, flop, and pop your way to the top! Fight alone or against friends for freedom from a mad king across tons of stages, mini games, and modes as you wrestle to be the last jelly standing!

Why similar: Fighting 23.8% ★, Local Co-Op 17.7%, Local Multiplayer 16%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Co-op 10.2%

Killer Queen Black is a fast-paced, team-based action strategy game where two teams battle for victory in a frantic arcade arena. Coordinate with your queen and workers to outmaneuver the enemy, riding snails, collecting berries, and fighting for military dominance across multiple win conditions.

Why similar: 2D Fighter 14.3%, Fighting 13.9% ★, 4 Player Local 10.7%, eSports 10.6% ★, Online Co-Op 8.2%

Grab up to three friends for this party brawler where classic party-game chaos meets fast, punchy combat. Score goals, steal stars, dodge hazards, and sabotage each other across chaotic minigames!

Why similar: Fighting 33.3% ★, Multiplayer 11.2%, 4 Player Local 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10%, Local Multiplayer 8.7%

Are you the best sumo?! Find out in this quirky multiplayer brawler that's a cross between Super Smash Bros. and QWOP. Duke it out and fight your way to the top!

Why similar: Fighting 26.8% ★, 2D Fighter 20.4%, eSports 16.7% ★, Local Multiplayer 12.1%, 2D Platformer 6.6%

A simple fighting game with one attack. Features fast-paced, expressive movement and rollback netcode.

Why similar: Fighting 33% ★, 2D Fighter 23.2%, eSports 17.4% ★, Local Multiplayer 11.3%, Multiplayer 8.8%