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Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's free to play! Try now at https://toughlovearena.com DMs open

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It’s #WishlistWednesday
This week we recommend checking out Tough Love Arena — a fun and unique 2D fighter with a strong focus on fundamentals. It’s available as a free web-based game and a Steam version that includes extra features and goodies.
Give it a wishlist & support the #IndieGame Community!

11.02.2026 16:22 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.117.1

- Added Ctrl+S, Ctrl+B shortcuts to the mod editor
- Fixed a bug where mods wouldn't compile if the last line was a comment
- Fixed error line numbers being slightly off
- Fixed a bug where WIP content was accidentally playable

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.117.1

26.01.2026 20:39 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Josie worked on @toughlovearena.com ! She’s great :)

23.01.2026 16:14 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.117.0

- Modding Editor has been completely redesigned!
- New engine features:
- > Projectiles can be randomized like cancels
- > RemoteAnimationConfig.offsetFromStoredPosition
- > FrameConfig.armorMultiplier
- > FighterStatsConfig.meterColor

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.117.0

05.01.2026 04:00 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Shutting down our Patreon | Tough Love Arena Get more from Tough Love Arena on Patreon

As we get ready for official release, we are shutting down our Patreon. We'd prefer that our fans get something in return for their money :)

Thank you to everyone for all of the generous support over the years!

www.patreon.com/posts/144925...

10.12.2025 17:23 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.116.2

- Lobbies: VIP users can now make lobbies with custom IDs

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.116.2

11.10.2025 23:10 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.116.1

- Mobile: Fixed bug where holding touch controls sometimes tried to select an image rendered below the canvas
- Maintenance: Prep work for story mode launch, fixed some dev tools (thanks clove), and other tooling

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.116.1

11.10.2025 21:33 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Mobile fighting games are actually kinda dope these days. The technical input hurdle have largely been overcome.

Between tough love arena, Vita Fighters, super dragon punch force 3, and 2d fighting training machine, there are quite a few robust and mechanically fulfilling games.

09.09.2025 15:49 👍 38 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 0
Vampire Garlic hugging a pumpkin

Vampire Garlic hugging a pumpkin

Our annual online Halloween Tournament is tomorrow night! Signup for free and get free skins for playing 🎃 challonge.com/tlahalloween25

09.10.2025 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.116.0

- Gameplay: Added throw tech lockout. Pressing any non-Throw button while getting thrown will prevent you from teching on a later frame
- Lots of small character changes and bug fixes. Read below for more info

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.116.0

28.07.2025 03:25 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.115.2

- Modding: Removed matchmaker overlay from bottom left
- Modding: Added docs for the April Fools mod features. See log for more info

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.115.2

02.07.2025 03:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
State of the Game May 2025 | Player Feedback, Event Prep
State of the Game May 2025 | Player Feedback, Event Prep YouTube video by Tough Love Arena

May's State of the Game VOD is now on YouTube with timestamps! youtu.be/H0XwSbszxvI

07.05.2025 01:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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mpaulweeks - Twitch State of the Game

State of the Game is live now! twitch.tv/mpaulweeks

07.05.2025 00:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you're not happy with the direction the big publishers are going with fighting games, maybe try out some indie games!

Frankly, the FGC could do a lot more to support games by small teams, so I'm going to put out some recommendations. 🧵

#fgc #fgcsky 💪🕹️

25.04.2025 01:37 👍 194 🔁 105 💬 9 📌 6
State of the Game April 2025 | April Fools Recap
State of the Game April 2025 | April Fools Recap YouTube video by Tough Love Arena

April's State of the Game VOD is now on YouTube with timestamps! youtu.be/zlLD14wvHrg

23.04.2025 03:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.115.1

- Training: Input Delay will now be ignored when stepping frame-by-frame
- Maintenance: Cleaned up April Fools character code

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.115.1

17.04.2025 17:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Community | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

You can find an archive of the April Fools build (as well as past years) on our about page. The source code for the mods has also been made available in the Modding tool, so you can download the zips and keep playing with them in the main game. about.toughlovearena.com/community/

12.04.2025 14:44 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.115.0

- April Fools gameplay changes have been reverted

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.115.0

12.04.2025 14:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.114.8

- AF Noodle: Fixed bugs related to projectiles/parry/visuals, updated combo trials
- AF Rice: Changed 5HL, increased range on 4L, misc QOL fixes
- AF Beef: Reduced startup on a number of moves, fixed bug with ground bounce

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.114.8

09.04.2025 19:16 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.114.7

- AF Pork: Increased meter gain on hit, removed armor from 4L but it now breaks armor and parries
- AF Rice: Miscellaneous nerfs and behavior fixes
- AF Garlic: Super Gateway cancel window shortened, meter gain on all hits increased

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.114.7

08.04.2025 00:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.114.6

- AF Noodle: Fixed crash caused by new super move

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.114.6

06.04.2025 22:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.114.5

- AF Noodle: Removed infinite combo, added super, new items, updated combo trials
- AF Rice: Combo tweaks, added groundbounce divekick, added super, updated combo trials
- Patch Notes: Fixed dates and formatting for a few recent patches

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.114.5

06.04.2025 21:22 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.114.4

- AF Noodle: Increased enemy meter gain on certain attacks
- AF Rice: Lots of small balance adjustments to make Rice more inline with the rest of the cast

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.114.4

03.04.2025 16:08 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.114.3

- AF Onion: Removed meterless throw loops
- AF Rice: Removed an infinite combo

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.114.3

01.04.2025 19:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.114.1

- Fixed issue where Rice was loading the April 2024 version

0.114.2

- Fixed issue with patch notes formatting

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.114.2

01.04.2025 05:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.114.0

- April Fools patch! All characters have been swapped with modified versions until April 12

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.114.0

01.04.2025 04:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.

0.113.5

- Mobile/Desktop: Fixed bug where version in the bottom left was clickable
- Cabinet: Fixed bug where controls reminder was visible on cabinet mode
- Modding: Added lots of new features in prep for April Fools. Full docs coming soon!

Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#0.113.5

18.03.2025 22:10 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
State of the Game March 2025 | April Fools Announcement, Extra Long Q&A
State of the Game March 2025 | April Fools Announcement, Extra Long Q&A YouTube video by Tough Love Arena

March's State of the Game VOD is now on YouTube with timestamps! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LaI...

06.03.2025 17:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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mpaulweeks - Twitch State of the Game

State of the Game is live now! www.twitch.tv/mpaulweeks

05.03.2025 01:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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March 2025 TLA Monthly Player Survey Please give us your high level thoughts about TLA by filling out this quick form! If you wish to give more involved feedback or report bugs, please DM us on Twitter @ToughLoveArena or join the Discord...

State of the Game stream tonight! Last chance to do the survey: forms.gle/FB1JEnZpDWTh...

04.03.2025 19:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0