RESET ARENA

Reset Arena is a fast, brutal 1v1 duel fought entirely in cyberpunk ASCII text.
No sprites. No polygons. Just glowing terminal glyphs, three hits and the fight is over. You win or you get RESET! In Reset Arena every hit counts, so sharpen your blade, load up on skill shots and be sure you know just when to use your shield. 21 dynamic arena maps are where you must win and win and win again to climb to the top of the leader board.

The Duel
Reset Arena strips a fighting game down to its core: Attack, Block, and Dash, each running on its own independent cooldown. There's no combo string to memorize and no health bar to whittle down — just three hearts, a live read of your opponent's rhythm, and a single mistake separates you from victory or a reset.
Then there's the skill shots. A selection from a pool of 8 distinct projectile types are dropped in to every arena, every match — a homing dart you can juke with a well-timed dash, a hook that drags your opponent toward you, a shot that reverses their controls, one that kills their screen entirely. Toggle in and out of using them on the fly with a simple Q/E system, and stack the mind games on top of the melee.
No two arenas play the same. Rotating firewalls, proximity mines, teleporter pairs, moving walls — every map brings its own hazards into the fight, and the arena is as much your opponent as the person across from you.
Play Your Way
Online ranked matches — climb the leaderboard against real opponents

Local 1v1 — same screen, same keyboard, zero mercy - we are not responsible if you punch your sibling in the nose

Private matches — Need to practice without risking your win streak grab a friend, or enemy and share your private match code with them.

There's More Here Than a Duel
Reset Arena isn't only a fighting game. Somewhere in the game's own command console, secrets are waiting for players curious enough to go looking. What you'll find in there is yours to discover.

Key Features
Pure text-rendered combat — a genuinely distinct visual style.

8 skill shot types with real tactical depth — homing, reflection, area denial, and more, each counterable in its own way

20+ unique arenas, each with its own hazard layout

Independent-cooldown combat — no combos, no health bars, just three hearts and a clean read on your opponent

Online ranked ladder with a live leaderboard

Local 1v1 for couch play

Hidden content waiting to be found by players willing to dig into the archives of the command console

Built solo by Goldfinch_Arche of Goldfinch Games, a husband and father working to fulfill a life long dream of developing a game people love to play.