Couch Arcade

Fifty-seven quick duels for two people sharing one keyboardone screen. Every one also works with a third player on the mouse, and every one can be played online with up to four friends. Every round pays out by finishing place (4, 2 and 1 points with four players), and the first to 3 round wins’ worth of points takes the game. Press Esc to pause.

Games won
Play online Up to four players, each on their own device. Create a lobby and share this page’s link, or swap lobby codes.

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Bots

Bots learned these games through machine learning. In some games they can be really good, even impossible to beat.

Rounds to win
Tournament
Tournament games
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Tick the games to play and set how many rounds win each one. They’re played in random order.

No games match.
EmberADLeft side of the keyboardButtons on the left
Tide←→Arrow keysButtons on the right
NovaL-clickR-clickMouse, clicking anywhere on the arenaButtons in the middle
Quality control

⚠ The server’s data folder isn’t on a mounted volume, so the live list, approvals and notes will be lost on the next deploy. In Dokploy add a Volume mount at /app/data.

Only live games show to players. You see every game while tester mode is on. Approve a game after playing it, and leave notes for the other testers.

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Press 1–9 to jump straight into one of the first nine games. In 3-player mode, Nova’s left and right clicks work like the other players’ left and right keys.Games always play sideways. Each player gets their own buttons beside the arena.

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Online lobby

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Send this link to your friends. Opening it takes them straight into this lobby. They can also type the code under Play online.

This page is an older version of Couch Arcade than the server’s, so you can’t join games until you reload.

Players
    Bots
    Rounds to win

    Bots learned these games through machine learning. In some games they can be really good, even impossible to beat.

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    No games match.
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