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Streamlining the Fighting Genre
If You’re New To Fighting Games
We’ve streamlined the genre to get you to the fun decision-making part as soon as possible. All moves are just a single button press, combos are easy, move lists are so concise that they fit on one screen. We’ve cut out the chaff to focus on the heart of the genre so we can show you why fighting games are awesome.
If You’re a Fighting Game Veteran
Fantasy Strike is difficult to be good at, but not because of combos or execution: because making the right decisions is hard. This game is designed by an ex-Street Fighter dev and hardcore player for play in tournaments. It’s got mixups, rushdown, zoning, frame traps, grapplers seeming too powerful on day 1, and other fighting game fundamentals you’re used to.
FREE TO PLAY
ALL Characters Free Online
The term “free to play” has a wide range of meanings.
We’re not talking about “one character is free, please buy the rest for $5 each.”
No, we mean all characters are immediately free online. No grinding or unlocks.
Free Modes: Online Casual Play, Online Ranked Play, Practice Mode, Single Match vs. AI
Get the Core Pack to access more modes: Boss Rush, Arcade, Survival, Local VS, and online friend matches.
CHARACTERS
Be a ninja, dragon, panda, fish, or even a human
Fantasy Strike is a world of fantasy and martial arts. Its diverse characters use wind, fire, ghosts, gambling, paint, and even time itself as their weapons. Find a character whose personality and playstyle you connect with. Try a disciplined zoner or a cocky one if you prefer, a manic-depressive rushdown character, a gentle grappler, gambling panda, a passive resistance-style fish, and more.
ONLINE PLAY
Best-in-class Networking Technology
We are not aware of better networking tech in any other fighting game.
Sorry if that sounds jerky, but seriously it's that good.
The Wrong Way: Input Delay
The standard, bad way of doing online play in fighting games is to use input delay. When you press a button, nothing happens on your screen right away. The signal goes to your opponent, then bounces back to you before you see anything happen. It feels like you’re playing underwater.
The Right Way: Rollback Method
Fantasy Strike uses GGPO’s rollback-style networking.
When you press a button, the result happens instantly on your screen, just like during offline play.
Occasionally your opponent’s character will pop back into sync, but it’s rare.
Mostly you get smooth, responsive gameplay,
even across continents.
Cross-platform play? Yes, here’s our FAQ about it.
A Different UI Approach to For Online Play
Playing With a Friend Online
To play a friend, go to your friends list and click on the crossed swords by any name to challenge them.
That’s it.
When they accept, you and your friend are
put into the same gameflow as if you were sitting next to each other in the same room.
Watching a Friend Online
To watch your friend play, go to your friends list and click on the eyeball by any name.
That’s it.
You'll continue watching your friend automatically,
as they play different opponents online,
even in different game modes.
This is so simple and great, but we’ve never seen it done this way in another fighting game.
Ranked Play
Rank up through the leagues in a series of tournaments. Get a fresh start every 3 months.
The Tournament Experience
Play in automated 8-person tournaments.
Tournament-style matchmaking is generally more exciting and has more ups and downs than standard "always 50-50 win rate" matchmaking.
Our point system is as simple as our lifebars: you get 1, 2, or 3 stars for winning, depending on how far you are in the tournament.
Team Battle Format
Choose a team of 3 characters, play a best-3-out-of-5 match.
Each game, play a new randomly chosen matchup.
You'll go through all your characters before repeating.
Must win with all 3 of your characters to win the match!
There's lots of variety in this mode. You'll play an even spread of many matchups, rather than usually playing the most unfair matchups as often happens in counter-pick systems.
SINGLE PLAYER
Arcade Mode
Fight a series of AI opponents. Includes beautifully illustrated, voiced story intros and endings.
Four Survival Modes
A rapid-fire series of opponents with no loading times between them.
They get stronger as you go.
Daily Challenge
An endless survival mode that you can only play ONCE per day.
See how you do compared everyone else that day.
Boss Rush
Our biggest and most awesome single-player mode.
Draft a deck of powerups as you play though a series of 8, increasingly crazy AI bosses.
Roguelike, in that if you lose, you start over and can start building a new deck.
Tutorial
This short, 5-minute tutorial teaches you all the basics.
Do some fun exercises that flow continuously
with no loading times.
Spotlight Videos
Every character has their own spotlight video, a narrated tour by game director David Sirlin. Each video goes though that character's moves and what their general gameplan and strategy is about.
CONTROLS
All moves are done with a single button press so you can play with any controller.
Yomi Counters
The power of doing nothing.
The Yomi Counter is an exciting new feature for the fighting game genre.
Throws are powerful in Fantasy Strike, but you can always punish a throw that you know is coming
...by simply letting go of your controls!
When you let go, you're vulnerable to any attack,
but you'll automatically reverse an incoming throw with your Yomi Counter.
You'll throw them with a special animation, deal damage, and get full super meter too!
(Special throws and super throws can’t be yomi countered. You can jump out of those though.)
Opponent is doing inputs
so they CAN be thrown
Opponent let go of the controls
so they yomi counter YOU if you try to throw them
COSMETICS AVAILABLE
There’s plenty of ways to show your bling (and none give a competitive advantage).
Alternate colors, costumes, intro animations, victory animations, practice routines, and KO animations.
Alternate Costumes
Victory Animations
Intro Animations
Special KO Animations
FANTASY+ (Optional Service)
Want some perks? The Fantasy+ service gives you these extra features for only about $3 usd / month (with a 1-year plan).
Replay Theater
An extensive set of features for viewing game replays.
Search for specific matchups of specific ranks online,
or view your own games. Includes 2 “TV Channels” of endless replays from other players.
Watching a replay has controls like watching a video.
Skip forward or back 10 seconds, or to the next round. Change speed, or even frame step forward or back.
Master Costumes
These exclusive costumes are each character’s ultimate form.
These costumes can’t be bought in the item shop. They are only available to Fantasy+ members, and even then, only if you are level 20 or higher with that character.