Fighting games (aka versus fighting games)

Fighting games involve hand-to-hand combat against a single opponent for the whole duration of a match. A distinctive trait of fighting games are the special attacks, i.e. combinations of graphically striking moves which enhance the intensity of the fight. Some of the soundest fighting games of all times are Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat.

Most popular fighting games

Street Fighter 2

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Super Street Fighter 2

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Mortal Kombat

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Aaargh

DOS19883.3/5 Binary Design
Battle Arena Toshinden

DOS19964.3/5 Tamsoft Corporation
Body Blows

DOS19934.2/5 Team 17
Brutal: Paws of Fury

DOS19953.9/5 GameTek
Budokan: the Martial Spirit

DOS19894.1/5 Electronic Arts
Dangerous Streets

DOS19943.5/5
Death Sword

DOS19884.2/5 Palace Software

Death Sword (also known as Barbarian in Europe), is a fighting game developed by Palace Software, set in a fantasy world full of huge sword-wielding barbarians. Compared to modern brawlers, Death Sword gameplay may seem slow, but at the time it was considered adequate. Instead of rushing into multiple chain combos, the slow pace allow the players t...
Endless Horror

DOS19932.7/5
Metal & lace

DOS1993NSFW3.8/5 MegaTech Software
Mortal Kombat

DOS1993protected4.3/5 Midway Manufacturing Company

Mortal Kombat is one of the most popular 1 on 1 fighting games. No wonder it spawned many sequels. You can play as one of the seven digitized characters and must fight everyone else to the top. One of the distinctive features of Mortal Kombat is the fatality: a special move to finish off the adversary.
Mortal Kombat 2

DOS1994protected4/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
Mortal Kombat 3

DOS1995protected4/5 Midway Manufacturing Company

Mortal Kombat 3 is a fighting action game developed by Midway Manufacturing Company and released by GT Interactive Software in 1995 for DOS and Windows as well as for many other platforms. Mortal Kombat 3 is the third chapter of the acclaimed Mortal Kombat series that spawned many sequels, a few TV series and even movies (with various degree of suc...
No Exit

DOS19903.4/5 Coktel Vision
One Must Fall 2097

DOS1994freeware4.2/5 Diversions Entertainment
Pit Fighter

DOS19913.8/5 Atari
Pray for Death

DOS1996protected4.2/5 Light Shock Software
Primal Rage

DOS19954/5 Atari
Rise of the Robots

DOS19943.2/5 Mirage Technologies
Sango Fighter

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993freeware3.6/5 Panda Entertainment Technology Co.
Sango Fighter 2

DOS1995freeware3.1/5 Panda Entertainment Technology Co.
Savage Warriors

DOS19953.8/5 Kalisto Entertainment
Street Fighter

DOS19883.7/5 Capcom
Street Fighter 2

DOS19924.3/5 Capcom

Street Fighter 2 is one of the most popular fighting game ever released in the 90s. Street Fighter 2 was designed by Akira Nishitani and Akira Yasuda, developed and published by Capcom in 1991 for the arcades and then converted for many platforms from Spectrum ZX to DOS (in 1992).
Super Street Fighter 2

DOS19964.3/5 Capcom
The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom's Revenge!

DOS19893.8/5 Paragon Software
The Way of the Exploding Fist PC

Windows2008freewareremake4/5
Time Slaughter

DOS1996freeware4/5 Bloodlust Software
Tongue of the Fatman

DOS19893.2/5 Brian A. Rice
Ultimate Body Blows

DOS1994protected3.9/5 Team 17
Ultra Mortal Kombat Vendetta

Windows XP/98/952001freeware3.8/5