The Greatest Fighting Games Ever Made
List Rules
Head to Head Tournament-Style Fighting Games Only
The best fighting games pit player against player testing reflexes and skill. Fighting games range from the 3D arena fighters to elaborate tag matches. Almost every major franchise in pop culture has had a go at a fighting game lately, from Star Wars to Street Fighter, the reach of the Fighting Genre runs deep. You can build a list to include your favorite fighting franchise, or use the vote buttons to give the fighting game you love a boost.
Featuring Mortal Kombat, Super Smash Bros., Tekken, and more, ths list includes the best fighting video games of all time.
Ranked by
- 2011
- Developer: High Voltage Software, NetherRealm Studios
- Genres (Video game): Action, Fighting
- Series: Mortal Kombat
- Designers: Ed Boon
- Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
- Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
- Developer: Backbone Entertainment, Capcom
- Genres (Video game): Action game, Fighting game
- Series: Marvel vs. Capcom
- Publisher: Capcom
- Platform: Xbox, Arcade game, PlayStation 2, iPhone, Dreamcast
- 1997
- Developer: Production I.G, Namco
- Genres (Video game): Action game, Fighting game
- Series: Tekken
- Publisher: Namco
- Platform: PlayStation 2, PlayStation, Dreamcast, Namco System 12
- Developer: Capcom
- Genres (Video game): Fighting game
- Series: Street Fighter
- Publisher: Capcom
- Platform: Arcade, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Xbox, PlayStation 3
- 2002
- Developer: Project Soul
- Genres (Video game): Action game, Fighting game
- Series: Soul
- Publisher: Namco Bandai Games, Electronic Arts, Namco
- Platform: Xbox, Arcade game, PlayStation 2, GameCube
- Sequels: Soulcalibur
- 6
- Developer: Capcom
- Genres (Video game): Fighting
- Series: Street Fighter
- Designers: Akira Yasuda
- Publisher: Capcom
- Platform: Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Saturn, TurboGrafx-16, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable
- Sequels: Street Fighter