Wccftech’s Best Fighting Games of 2023 – Fatalities In Metro City
2023 was one of the best years ever for gaming, thanks to the release of several excellent titles across different genres, like role-playing and action-adventure. It was also a fantastic year for fighting games, thanks to the long-anticipated return of the two series that defined the genre back in the early 90s: Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.
2023, however, wasn't all just about the latest entries in these two glorious titles, as plenty of other minor fighting games made this a year to remember for a genre that, while extremely niche nowadays, still has a strong hardcore following.
Without further ado, here are the fighting games we feel are the best released in 2023, alongside a few other titles that, while not stellar, deserved to be mentioned. Don't forget to vote for your personal favorite in the poll at the end of this article!
The Street Fighter series by CAPCOM may not have created the fighting game genre as a whole, but it did influence its development significantly with the second entry in the series and continues to do so with each new entry. Following Street Fighter V's effectively broken launch in 2016, the development team effectively turned the game around in its final couple of seasons with an amazing level of care that bode well for Street Fighter 6, which was finally released to commercial and critical acclaim in 2023.
Right from the first closed beta in 2022, Street Fighter 6 showed its best features, such as amazing character design and the new Drive mechanics, which addressed some of the most common complaints aimed at the previous entry in the series, such as the rushdown-focused playstyle of the vast majority of the cast and the lack of defensive options. At release, however, the game proved to be
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