"Indie fighter Schwarzerblitz pays tribute to early ’90s 3D fighters" - Shoryuken

"Schwarzerblitz shows love to early polygonal fighters" - Siliconera

Schwarzerblitz is a love letter to '90s 3D low-poly fighters, featuring 24 playable characters, more than 30 stages, ring out mechanics, classic arcade endings, and a complete story mode. Steel your fists and let the Black Lightning strike!

Story

It's 2065 and the world is not what we used to know. Fennoscandia has sunk deep into the ocean, half of Ireland is ridden by haemophages, nuclear power has been replaced by reality-distorsion-resonance (RDR) power plants, and an alien planetoid has made first contact for more than fifty years, by now.
In 2064, a major accident shook the whole Europe: Euterpe, the Italian capitol city, was razed by an explosion of incredible power, followed by a storm of black lightnings. The accounts of the witnesses diverged and no light was shed on the real cause of the disaster. After a one-year manhunt, the Delta Team has finally found a consistent trail, which leads directly to a secret governative project known as Schwarzer Blitz, "the black lightning"...

Game Mechanics

five button system: Guard, Punch, Kick, Tech and Trigger
fluid combo system: most attacks can chain into each other, leading to long strings and combos
impact attacks: send your opponent flying with powerful blows - if near the border of the stage, this will throw them out of the ring
trigger attacks: by using a bullet counter, the next attack will break the opponent's guard and increases the hitstun, leading to easier combos and humongous damage
trigger guard / combo breaker: when comboed, you can use a bullet counter to cancel the hitstun and strike back against your opponent

Main Features

24 playable characters
A total of more than 100 skins (circa 4 per character)
36 different stages with animated background elements and ring out mechanics
arcade, survival, time-attack... you name it!
5h long story mode with several CG cutscenes, and an overarching story joining all arcade endings together
gallery mode, arcade ending theater
extensive training mode with frame advantage data, tutorials and trials
local multiplayer, both with joypad or split-keyboard
8-way movement in a complete 3D environment
extended movelists for every character, listing every possible chain
varied soundtrack with different genres and tunes
moddable game engine (workshop support planned)
controls can be freely remapped in-game. Both keyboard and joypads are supported (both XInput and DirectInput)
a drunken shark-man
a politically incorrect robot
A FRIGGIN' AUSSIE RAPTOR WITH A MINIGUN!

Schwarzerblitz achievements