A pattern-recognition boxing match where every opponent has a rhythm, learn it, slip the blow, and answer with a counter that lands clean.
Each opponent telegraphs a punch before throwing it. Read the tell, pick the right defence, and the moment they whiff you get a window to counter. Drain a fighter's health to win the round and face the next, tougher challenger.
Title Bout harks back to Punch-Out!!, released by Nintendo in 1984, which is a memory game wearing boxing gloves.
Opponents do not fight adaptively; each has a script and a tell that precedes every attack, so winning means learning a pattern rather than reacting quickly. The arcade cabinet drew your own fighter as a wireframe so he would not block your view of the opponent — a clean solution to the problem that the thing you must watch is behind the thing you control. Openings appear only after a correct dodge, which makes defence the source of offence rather than its opposite.
Title Bout is an original free browser take on the timing-and-tells boxing genre, rewarding observation over button-mashing. No download, no sign-up, just step into the ring.