Fighting games that try to make the actual fun part of fighting games more accessible to more players is increasing day-by-day and you can add one more to the list with Tough Love Arena.
Developed by a two-person team, Tough Love Arena is entirely playable in a web browser on PC or mobile. No install needed.
It’s a three-button fighter (light, heavy, special attacks) with only two directional inputs (you auto-block on neutral- by not pressing any direction). Despite the simpler inputs, there’s still depth to it to satisfy a seasoned fighting game player.
It also has a pretty sweet sketchbook artstyle, with characters name after food.
Tough Love Arena is in beta right now, and has six playable characters (with a handy frame data sheet available in-game). A training mode, local versus and online multiplayer with rollback netcode is also available.
All you need to do is go to this link here, agree on the EULA and immediately start fighting.