List of fighting games
s are characterized by close combat between two fighters or groups of fighters of comparable strength, often broken into rounds or stocks. If multiple players are involved, players generally fight against each other.
Note: Games are listed in a "common English title/alternate title – developer" format, where applicable.
General
2D
Fighting games that use 2D sprites. Games tend to emphasize the height of attacks and jumping.- Aazohm Krypht – Logitron
- Aggressors of Dark Kombat – ADK
- Tōkidenshō Angel Eyes – Tecmo
- Akatsuki EN-Eins series – Subtle Style
- *Akatsuki Shisei Ichigō
- *Akatsuki Blitzkampf
- *Akatsuki Blitzkampf Ausf. Achse
- *EN-Eins Perfektewelt
- *EN-Eins Perfektewelt Anastasis
- Aquapazza: Aquaplus Dream Match - Examu
- Arcana Heart series – Examu
- *Arcana Heart
- *Arcana Heart Full!
- *Arcana Heart 2
- *Suggoi! Arcana Heart 2
- *Arcana Heart 3
- *Arcana Heart 3: Love MAX!!!!!
- *Arcana Heart 3 Love Max: Six Stars!!!!!!
- *Arcana Heart 3 Love Max: Six Stars!!!!!! XTEND
- Art of Fighting series – SNK
- *Art of Fighting
- *Art of Fighting 2
- *Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior
- Astra Superstars – Sunsoft
- Asura series – Fuuki
- *Asura Blade: Sword of Dynasty
- *Asura Buster: Eternal Warriors
- Asuka 120% series
- *Asuka 120% Burning Festival – Fill-in-Cafe
- *Asuka 120% Excellent Burning Festival – Fill-in-Cafe / FamilySoft
- *Asuka 120% Maxima Burning Festival – Fill-in-Cafe
- *Asuka 120% Special Burning Festival – FamilySoft
- *Asuka 120% Limited Burning Festival – Kodansha
- *Asuka 120% Final Burning Festival – FamilySoft / SUCCESS
- *Asuka 120% Return Burning Festival – FamilySoft
- Avengers in Galactic Storm – Data East
- Axel City series - Project Atsuki
- *Axel City
- *Axel City 2
- Bangkok Knights – System 3
- Battle Blaze – American Sammy
- Battle Beast – 7th Level
- Battle K-Road – Psikyo
- Battle Master: Kyuukyoku no Senshitachi – System Vision
- Battle Monsters – Naxat Soft
- BattleCry – Home Data
- Barbarian series
- *Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior / Death Sword – Palace Software
- *Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax / Axe of Rage – Palace Software
- Best of Best – SunA
- Bible Fight – This is Pop
- Big Bang Beat – NRF Software
- Bikini Karate Babes – Creative Edge Studios
- Black Belt – Earthware Computer Services
- Black Hole Assault – Micronet
- Blandia – Allumer
- BlazBlue series – Arc System Works
- *BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
- *BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Portable
- *BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
- *BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II
- *BlayzBloo: Super Melee Brawlers Battle Royale
- *BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend
- *BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma
- *BlazBlue: Clone Phantasma
- *BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend
- *BlazBlue: Central Fiction
- *BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
- Blood Warrior / Ooedo Fight – Kaneko
- BloodStorm – Incredible Technologies
- Body Blows series
- *Body Blows – Team17
- *Body Blows Galactic – Team17
- *Ultimate Body Blows – Team17
- Bounces – Denton Designs
- Breakers/Breakers Revenge – Visco
- Brutal: Paws of Fury series
- *Brutal: Paws of Fury – GameTek
- *Brutal Unleashed: Above the Claw – GameTek
- Budokan: The Martial Spirit – Electronic Arts
- Bundesfighter II Turbo – funk
- Burning Rival – Sega
- Capcom Fighting Evolution – Capcom
- Capital Punishment – ClickBOOM
- Capoeira Fighter series – Spiritonin
- *Capoeira Fighter
- *Capoeira Fighter 2
- *Capoeira Fighter 3
- Catfight – Atlantean Interactive Games
- Chinese Hero – Taiyo System
- Chaos Code series – FK Digital pty ltd.
- *Chaos Code
- *Chaos Code: Sign of Catastrophe / Exact Xeno Attack
- *Chaos Code -Nemesis Experiment-
- Cho Aniki: Bakuretsu Ranto Hen – NCS
- Chop Suey – English Software
- Choy Lee Fut: Kung-Fu Warrior – Positive
- ClayFighter series – Interplay
- *ClayFighter
- *ClayFighter: Tournament Edition
- *ClayFighter 2 / ClayFighter 2: Judgement Clay / C2: Judgement Clay
- *ClayFighter 63⅓
- *ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut
- Crimson Alive – Keropyon
- *Crimson Alive: Genesis of The Heretic – Keropyon
- *Crimson Alive: Burst Again – Keropyon
- *Crimson Alive: Extreme Encounter – Keropyon
- Cross Theater – ABC Maru
- Cosmic Carnage – Sega
- Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness – Capcom
- Daemon Bride series – Examu
- *Daemon Bride – Examu
- *Daemon Bride: Additional Gain – Examu
- Dangerous Streets – Micromania
- Darkstalkers series – Capcom
- *Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors
- *Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
- *Darkstalkers 3
- *Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers' Revenge
- *Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire
- Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax – French-Bread
- Dino Rex – Taito
- Divekick – Iron Galaxy
- Doomsday Warrior Taiketsu!! Brass Numbers – Renovation Productions Inc.
- Double Dragon: The Movie – Technos
- Dr. Doom's Revenge – Empire Interactive
- Draglade series – Dimps
- *Custom Beat Battle: Draglade
- *Draglade 2
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story – Virgin
- Dragon Ball Z – Banpresto
- Dragon Master – Unico
- Dragoon Might – Konami
- Duel 2000 – Coktel Vision
- Dynamite Bomb!! - Light Green 8
- Eternal Champions series – Sega
- *Eternal Champions
- *Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side
- Eternal Fighter Zero – Tasogare Frontier
- Expect No Mercy
- The Fallen Angels / Daraku Tenshi – Psikyo
- Fatal Fury/Garou Densetsu series – SNK
- *Fatal Fury: King of Fighters
- *Fatal Fury 2
- *Fatal Fury Special
- *Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory
- *Real Bout Fatal Fury
- *Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
- *Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers
- *Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special: Dominated Mind
- *Fatal Fury: 1st Contact
- *Garou: Mark of the Wolves
- Fighter's History series – Data East
- *Fighter's History
- *Fighter's History Dynamite
- *Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!!
- Fightin' Spirit – Lightshock Software
- Fighting Masters – Treco
- Fighting Road – Toei Animation
- Fist Fighter – Zeppelin
- Fist of the North Star – Arc System Works
- Fight Fever / Wang Jung Wang – Viccom
- Flash Hiders series – Right Stuff
- *Flash Hiders
- *Battle Tycoon: Flash Hiders SFX
- FOOTSIES series – HiFight
- *FOOTSIES
- *FOOTSIES: Rollback Edition
- Fu'un series – SNK
- *Savage Reign
- *Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle
- Fuuka Taisen – Rei no Mono
- Galactic Warriors – Konami
- Galaxy Fight: Universal Warriors – Sunsoft
- Gladiator – Domark
- Glove on Fight – French-Bread
- Golden Axe: The Duel – Sega
- Guilty Gear series – Arc System Works
- Gundam: Battle Assault series – Bandai
- Head to Head Karate – Softdisk Publishing
- Hercules: Slayer of the Damned – Gremlin Graphics
- Hiryu no Ken series – Culture Brain
- Hitman Reborn! DS: Flame Rumble – Tomy
- Holosseum – Sega
- Human Killing Machine / HKM – Tiertex
- Immaterial and Missing Power – Twilight Frontier / Team Shanghai Alice
- Insane Paine – Blast Process Games
- InuYasha: A Feudal Fairy Tale – Bandai
- International Karate series
- *International Karate / World Karate Championship – System 3
- *IK+ / International Karate + / Chop N' Drop – System 3
- Istanbul Beyleri series – AKEMRE
- *Istanbul Beyleri
- *Istanbul Beyleri 2
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure – Capcom
- Joy Mech Fight – Nintendo
- Jump Stars series – Ganbarion
- *Jump Super Stars
- *Jump Ultimate Stars
- Justice League Task Force – Blizzard Entertainment
- Kabuki Klash: Far East Of Eden – Hudson Soft
- Kaiser Knuckle / Global Champion / Dan-Ku-Ga – Taito
- Karate Master Knock Down Blow – Crian Soft
- Karate – Ultravision
- Karate Champ – Technos Japan Corporation
- Karate Combat – Superior Software
- Karateka – Jordan Mechner
- Kart Fighter – Cracked game featuring Mario
- Kasumi Ninja – Hand Made Software
- Kick Box Vigilante – Zeppelin
- Killer Instinct series
- *Killer Instinct – Rare
- *Killer Instinct 2 – Rare
- *Killer Instinct Gold – Rare
- The Killing Blade – IGS
- The King of Fighters series – SNK
- *The King of Fighters '94
- *The King of Fighters '95
- *The King of Fighters '96
- *The King of Fighters '97
- *The King of Fighters '98
- *The King of Fighters '99
- *The King of Fighters 2000
- *The King of Fighters 2001
- *The King of Fighters 2002
- *The King of Fighters 2003
- *The King of Fighters Neowave
- *The King of Fighters XI
- *The King of Fighters XII
- *The King of Fighters XIII
- Knight Games – English Software
- Konjiki no Gash Bell Yuujou no Zakeru 2 – Banpresto
- Konjiki no Gash Bell Yuujou no Zakeru Dream Tag Tournament – Banpresto
- The Kung-Fu Master Jackie Chan / Jackie Chan in Fists of Fire: Jackie Chan Densetsu – Kaneko
- Last Fight – Andromeda Software
- Makeruna! Makendō 2: Kimero Youkai Souri – Success / Fill-in-Cafe
- Maribato! – DK Soft
- Martial Masters – IGS
- Martial Champion – Konami
- Marvel Super Heroes series – Capcom
- *X-Men: Children of the Atom
- *Marvel Super Heroes
- Marvel vs. Capcom series – Capcom
- *X-Men vs. Street Fighter
- *Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
- *Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes
- *Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
- Master Axe: The Genesis of MysterX – Axe to Grind
- Master Ninja: Shadow Warrior of Death – Paragon Software
- Masters of Combat – SIMS Co., Ltd.
- Matsumura Kunihiro Den: Saikyō no Rekishi o Nurikaero! – Shouei
- Melty Blood series – Type-Moon / French-Bread / Ecole Software
- *Melty Blood: Type Lumina
- Metal & Lace: Battle of the Robo Babes – Forest
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series
- *Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- *Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- *Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
- *Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition
- Mighty Warriors – Electronic Devices/Electtronica Video-Games SRL
- Million Arthur: Arcana Blood – Examu/Team Arcana
- Million Knights Vermilion – NRF Software
- Monster –
- Moorhen Battle Arena – Mobile Scope
- Mortal Kombat series – Midway
- *Mortal Kombat
- *Mortal Kombat II
- *Mortal Kombat 3
- *Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
- *Mortal Kombat Trilogy
- Monster Maulers – Konami
- M.U.G.E.N
- Neo Geo Battle Coliseum – SNK
- New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Endless Duel – Natsume
- Ninja / Ninja Mission – Entertainment USA / Mastertronic
- Ninja Hamster – CRL
- Ninja Master's – ADK
- Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel – Nitroplus
- No Exit – Titus / Tomahawk
- Ōgon Musōkyoku – 07th Expansion
- One Must Fall: 2097 – Epic Games
- Ragnagard/Shin-Oh-Ken – Saurus / System Vision
- Osu!! Karate Bu – Culture Brain
- Queen of Heart – Watanabe Seisakujo
- Panza Kick Boxing / Best of the Best: Championship Karate – Loriciels
- Persona 4 Arena – Arc System Works/Atlus
- *Persona 4 Arena Ultimax – Arc System Works/Atlus
- Phantom Breaker – Mages
- *Phantom Breaker: Extra – Mages
- *Phantom Breaker: Omnia – Mages
- Photo Dojo – Nintendo
- Pit-Fighter: The Ultimate Competition – Atari Games
- Power Instinct/Goketsuji Ichizoku series – Atlus
- *Power Instinct
- *Power Instinct 2
- *Gogetsuji Legends
- *Groove on Fight
- *Matrimelee
- *Shin Goketsuji Ichizoku: Bonnou no Kaihou
- *Gōketsuji Ichizoku Matsuri Senzo Kuyou
- Power Moves – Kaneko
- Power Quest – Japan System Supply
- Pray For Death – Virgin Interactive
- Primal Rage series – Atari Games
- Project Cerberus – Hobibox / Milestone
- RABBIT – Aorn / Electronic Arts
- Red Earth / Warzard – Capcom
- Rage of the Dragons – Evoga / Noise Factory
- Raging Fighter – Konami
- Ranma ½ series
- *Ranma ½: Chōnai Gekitōhen – NCS
- *Ranma ½: Datou, Ganso Musabetsu Kakutou-ryuu! – NCS
- *Ranma ½: Chougi Rambuhen – Rumic Soft
- *Ranma ½: Battle Renaissance – Rumic Soft
- Revengers of Vengeance - Micronet co., Ltd.
- Rise of the Robots series – Mirage Media
- *Rise 2: Resurrection – Mirage Media
- Rock, Paper, Scissors: Extreme Deathmatch – This is Pop
- The Rumble Fish series – Dimps
- *The Rumble Fish
- *The Rumble Fish 2
- Sango Fighter series – Panda Entertainment
- *Sango Fighter
- *Sango Fighter 2
- Sai Combat – Mirrorsoft
- Sailor Moon series – Angel
- Samurai Deeper Kyo – Bandai
- Samurai Shodown / Samurai Spirits series – SNK
- Samurai Trilogy – Gremlin Graphics
- Savage Warriors – Mindscape
- Scarlet Weather Rhapsody – Twilight Frontier / Team Shanghai Alice
- Schmeiser Robo – Hot B Co. Ltd.
- Seifuku Densetsu Pretty Fighter – Genki / Sol
- Sengoku Basara X – Capcom / Arc System Works
- Shadow Fighter – Gremlin Graphics
- Shadow: War of Succession – Tribeca Digital Studios
- Shaman King: Spirit of Shamans – Dimps
- Shanghai Karate – Players
- Shaq-Fu – Delphine
- Shin Koihime Musō: Otome Taisen Sangokushi Engi – BaseSon
- Shogun Warriors / Fujiyama Buster – Kaneko
- Skullgirls – Reverge Labs/Lab Zero Games/Hidden Variable Studios/Future Club
- Sokko Seitokai Sonic Council – Banpresto
- SNK Gals' Fighters – SNK
- SNK vs. Capcom series – Capcom / SNK
- SnapDragon / Karate Chop – Bubble Bus
- Sokko Seitokai: Sonic Council – Banpresto
- Spectral vs. Generation – Idea Factory / IGS
- Spitting Image – Domark
- Street Combat – NCS
- Street Fighter series – Capcom
- *Street Fighter
- *Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
- *Street Fighter II: Champion Edition
- *Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting
- *Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers
- *Super Street Fighter II Turbo
- *Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition
- *Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
- *Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers
- *Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams
- *Street Fighter Alpha 2
- *Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold
- *Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha
- *Street Fighter Alpha 3
- *Street Fighter Alpha Anthology
- *Street Fighter III
- *Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact
- *Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
- *Street Fighter: The Movie – IT / Capcom
- Street Smart – SNK
- Strip Fighter series – Games Express
- Sumo Wrestlers – HES
- Super Black Belt Karate – Computer Applications
- Super Chinese series
- *Super Chinese Fighter – Culture Brain
- *Super Chinese Fighter GB – Culture Brain
- *Super Chinese Fighter EX – Culture Brain
- Super Cosplay War Ultra – Team FK
- Super Fighter – C&E
- Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix / Pocket Fighter – Capcom
- Superior Soldiers / Perfect Soldiers – Irem
- Survival Arts – Sammy
- Swashbuckler – Paul Stephenson
- Sword Slayer / Spartacus the Swordslayer – Players
- Taekwon-Do – Human Entertainment
- Tao Taido – Video System
- Tattoo Assassins – Data East
- Tatsunoko Fight – Takara
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters – Konami
- Thai Boxing – Anco Software
- The Eye of Typhoon – Viccom
- The Outfoxies – Namco
- Thea Realm Fighters – High Voltage Software
- Them's Fightin' Herds – Mane6
- Time Killers – Incredible Technologies
- Timeslaughter – Bloodlust Software
- Tongue of the Fatman / Mondu's Fight Palace / Slaughter Sport / Fatman – Activision
- Tough Guy – Panda Entertainment
- Tuff E Nuff / Dead Dance – Jaleco
- Twinkle Queen – Milestone
- Uchi Mata / Brian Jack's Uchi Mata – Martech
- Ultra Vortek – Atari
- Umineko: Golden Fantasia - 07th Expansion
- Under Night In-Birth series – Type-Moon / French-Bread / Ecole Software
- *Under Night In-Birth
- *Under Night In-Birth II
- Untouchable – Creative Edge Studios
- Urban Champion – Nintendo
- Vanguard Princess – Sugeno
- *Vanguard Princess Prime – Sugeno
- Variable Geo series – TGL / Giga
- Violence Fight series
- *Violence Fight – Taito
- *Solitary Fighter / Violence Fight II – Taito
- Virtua Fighter series
- *Virtua Fighter Animation – Aspect
- *Virtua Fighter 2 – Sega-AM2
- Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer – Technos
- VR Troopers – Syrox Developments
- Waku Waku 7 – Sunsoft
- Warriors of Elysia – Creative Edge Studios
- The Way of the Exploding Fist series
- *The Way of the Exploding Fist / Kung-Fu: The Way of the Exploding Fist – Beam Software
- *Fist II: The Legend Continues / Fist: The Legend Continues / Exploding Fist II: The Legend Continues – Beam Software
- *Fist+ / Exploding Fist + – Beam Software
- Way of the Tiger – Gremlin Graphics
- Way of the Warrior – Naughty Dog
- Weaponlord – Visual Concepts
- Windy X Windam – Success / Ninja Studio
- World Heroes series – ADK / SNK
- Xuan Dou Zhi Wang / King of Combat – Jade Studio and Tencent Games
- Yatagarasu - Yatagarasu Dev Team
- *Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm
- *Yatagarasu Enter the Eastward
- Yie Ar Kung-Fu series
- *Yie Ar Kung-Fu – Konami / Imagine
- *Yie Ar Kung-Fu II: The Emperor Yie-Gah – Imagine / Konami
- Yu Yu Hakusho Final – Namcot
- Zatch Bell! Electric Arena / Konjiki no Gash Bell! Yuujou no Zakeru – Banpresto