Nidhogg

Nidhogg is a side-scrolling two-player action, fighting videogame developed and published by Mark “Messhof” Essen. Players duel with swords in a pixelated environment. This game features graceful acrobatics and clumsy stabs that will provoke a lot of real life yelling and excitement. In Nidhogg you take up fencing and fight one on one matches against AI or other players through local or online multiplayer. The aim of the game is to make it past your opponent and run to the other side of the map.The combat arena stretches in both directions, although besting an opponent only gains you ground. Matches aren’t won or lost with a single kill, but with a series of kills granting you right-of-way to run/fight/flee to your own goal-zone. A superb multiplayer game with some of the best virtual sword-fighting ever seen, giving you the best reason to crowd round a PC. Nidhogg is a game to be enjoyed with friends while in the same room together, and it may be the best title you’ll play in a very long time. A brilliant marriage of mechanics, level design and music that will be played and talked about for years to come.