Parrywick

Parrywick is a fencing duel in a candle-lit hall where you win by reading the other fencer. Each fencer holds the blade high, in the middle or low; a lunge on the line the defender holds is parried and answered with a fast riposte, on any other line it lands, and the first to five touches wins. Every lunge is veiled: the line stays hidden until the blade strikes, so you cannot parry by reflex. Instead, the last five lunges of both fencers stand in ledgers under the scoreboard. Six rivals each lunge by a habit you can find there and write into your Fencing Book, and each of them reads your own ledger with an eye of its own, so you change your pattern before they catch it. Climb the ladder, earn three medals per rival, meet a new masked stranger every day, or fence a friend on one keyboard or two gamepads. It plays in the browser with a keyboard, mouse, touch or gamepad.