SECOND INTENT
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Fighting. Free.
SECOND INTENT is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
SECOND INTENT is a free timing duel that tells you why you lost each exchange, to the millisecond, on every single input. THEY THREW LOW · YOU ANSWERED GUARD · 197 ms LATE · GRAZE · the answer was RISE And that same measurement is the difficulty system. Your reaction time is measured while you play, and the next opponent's wind-up is a multiple of it.
There is no difficulty slider, because the game is already reading you. The opponent shows you its read It builds a model of your verb frequencies, your signed timing bias and, separately, what you do when your poise is nearly gone. That model is drawn on screen at all times, and it persists across deaths. Your reputation precedes you.
An opponent that studies your habits is the exact mechanic players accuse of cheating. It is only fair because you can see it. Six verbs. Only three are ever on the menu. Which three depends on who holds the line. Nobody holds it: you both attack, and the winner takes it. You hold it: you attack, they answer. They hold it: they attack, and you must answer.
Being unpredictable is a resource you buy Every verb costs poise.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Free · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.