What is the best fighting game of the 2020s?
Netcode finally works, and the genre is in better health than it has been since the arcades. Pick the one you would build a tournament on.
1Street Fighter 6Capcom's 2023 entry, with the Drive system and a single-player World Tour mode.1000pts
2Mortal Kombat 11 UltimateThe 2020 complete edition of NetherRealm's best-selling game.787pts
3Guilty Gear StriveArc System Works' 2021 fighter, the one that made an anime fighter approachable.754pts
4Tekken 8Bandai Namco's 2024 fighter and its aggression-rewarding Heat system.538pts
5Mortal Kombat 1NetherRealm's 2023 reboot, built around the Kameo assist system.440pts
6Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate ShowdownSega's 2021 remaster, the series' return after more than a decade away.323pts
7Dragon Ball FighterZArc System Works' team fighter, kept alive by a rollback update that arrived years late.0pts
8The King of Fighters XVSNK's 2022 three-on-three entry, the series' strongest netcode to date.0pts
9Skullgirls 2nd EncoreThe hand-animated indie fighter that kept receiving new characters into the 2020s.0pts
#Games275#2020s153#Franchises128#Fighting13
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Street Fighter 6 and Mortal Kombat 1 shipped four months apart in 2023, thirty-two years after the first exchange: https://youpick.best/articles/mortal-kombat-vs-street-fighter-ranked
