Best Anime Competitive Games on PC

Aim Master H

Too difficult.

– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game

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Why is the fucking skill curve so damn steep? One second I’m chillin, the next I’m smashing my mouse on my desk… The music makes me want to jump off a cliff and on half of the levels clicking esc opens the pause menu, yet on the other half, esc does nothing. Good idea, very bad execution.

– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game

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Koi-Koi Japan [Hanafuda playing cards]

I just plain love it!

Hanafuda is a tough game to describe. When people ask me about it I usually just say “It’s a lot like Go Fish, but with a deck of Japanese flower cards”. This is only partially true, the game is a bit deeper than that, but at it’s core the game mixes chance and strategy into a really fun, really unique match game. The cards, the rules and the scoring can appear daunting at first, but once I got the hang of it (I have some experience with this game elsewhere) it is a really great and unique card game.

– Real player with 51.8 hrs in game

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I can’t recommend this game at full price. If you have friends to play with, it might be worth buying in a sale.

Koi-koi is a Japanese card-matching game using Hanafuda cards. It requires the players to match same-suit pairs of cards from twelve suits of four cards to produce sets (‘yaku’).

This implementation of koi-koi is very basic. The single-player AI is predictable, and not particularly hard to win against. The single-player mode doesn’t have a lot of replayability value, as it’s just the same game over and over. The single-player DLC requires the player to make certain yaku to progress. Some of these are very rare. While the pictures that you get as a reward are nice, it’s immensely frustrating to be unable to progress until you get an ideal hand.

– Real player with 44.9 hrs in game

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DRAGON BALL FighterZ

First Fighting game I’ve played. Very balanced at its current state, I hope it get a sequel or a big update to keep the game fresh,

– Real player with 1205.1 hrs in game

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If you’re into masochism and you like Dragon Ball then this game is for you.

Now jokes aside this game is really good, the artstyle is stunning, the music is amazing, the roster is big and pretty balanced… but the fighting system is a bit of a pain in the ass, especially for the new players. You need to constantly make new combos if you want to get better at this game, and spend thousands of hours on Arcade Mode and training to even have a chance of being semi-good and develop game sense.

Overall I recommend it to anyone who’s into that sort of thing.

– Real player with 103.8 hrs in game

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Granblue Fantasy: Versus

Neutral, slightly positive recommendation. I spent most of my time playing online in ranked and EU lobbies. Master Rank Lowain.

It’s an absolutely amazing game, and very easily the second best fighter in the eyes of this fightstick addict. But oh boy does it suffer from a lack of love from its devs and publishers…

You expect an anime fighter like BlazBlue or Guilty Gear but instead you get a super “pure”, polished game centered on footsies and fundamentals. It’s great for both beginners and experts and gets mechanical simplification right (I’m looking at you Fantasy Strike).

– Real player with 368.6 hrs in game

So I think this might be my first ever Steam review? But anyways, I play a lot of fighting games, and played the hell out of this on PS4 before it came to PC too so my hours might not reflect my actual gameplay time.

But I think this is deserving of a talk about as unlike most fighting games, this game is designed for both longtime fighting game players and new/casual players coming into it.

PROS:

• Simple to play, hard to master: Granblues specials are not like other fg’s where you have to always use things like dragon punch inputs, fireball inputs, charge motions etc to access them, they offer simple inputs as well as manual inputs. This is good for newer players who may struggle with these inputs while still encouraging to learn the manual inputs as the penalty for it is a slightly longer cooldown on the skill for using the easy inputs. Supers can also be done with simple inputs. But yeah, by far this is the biggest reason I love this game, I love the accessibility of it and yet how hard it can be to beat someone better than you in this game. It’s very simple to see where you are going wrong, and it’s a great game to improve yourself in, that’s what I love about this game the most.

– Real player with 270.3 hrs in game

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Puyo Puyo Champions

This game is puyo straight through. No Tetris, no influx of rating and offers some pretty good tutorials for beginners. I find this much better than Tetris because it’s more than an RNG battle when you vs Puyo as a Tetris or Tetris as a Puyo. That’s all the positives I can give because this game is overrun by bugs and the ones where they can destroy your experience as a player, even for a beginner.

For starters, the ranking in the game is more refined to the point where you are not seeing huge rating changes like in PPT (Puyo Puyo Tetris) and they’ve actually fixed it so that you aren’t getting matched up by a person way stronger than you. The ranking system matches you with a player near your skill level, but here’s the thing, the skill level could be vastly big still, even for a beginner. I’ve been matched with people in the 3000s while I was a 2200 and it completely ruined the experience for me as a veteran puyo player. The fun thing is that you can’t just back out because it locks you into a 30-second agreement to battle each other, which I find not needed because of how many times I and other players bumped into these high levelled players. I even faced against players more than 500 rating points below me and I feel just awful being forced to battle against them. I feel that this is maybe because of the lack of players since steamcharts says that mainly 30-40 people play this around the world per day, but you can get matched up with people from the other side of the world and start lagging, making you do wrong inputs. I do say the 30-second rule stops people from delaying to accept the duel and even gets rid of AFK players which is a plus for this game when it came out from the update. I enjoy playing against others around my level but if I’m going to be decimated by a guy way superior than me, then it’s no fun. This evolves into a few other problems and bugs that are introduced into the ranking system, which is where all the bugs are found.

– Real player with 89.3 hrs in game

$10 for what makes PuyoPuyo so fun: the online battles.

If you’re a new player, like, BRAND new to PuyoPuyo, I’d recommend that you hold it off for a little while before buying it. Not to get it on a sale, but for when new solo content gets added in the form of free updates. Since as this game stands of the time I’m writing this review, 90% of its content panders to multiplayer, while the rest are just freeplay CPU battles. No story mode and such, which is to be expected considering the budget price.

– Real player with 88.4 hrs in game

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Swapette Showdown

We challenge you to a Swapette Showdown!!!

Swapette Showdown is a competitive action puzzler for one to four players! Swap the blocks to create matches! Battle as/against cute magical girls a.k.a. the Swapettes!

Join the Swapettes in their battle to become the champion!

KEY FEATURES

• VS Mode: Play with up to 4 players or CPUs with various goals!

• Story Mode: Uncover the story of the game and your favorite characters!

• Classic Mode: Play on even grounds with no specials and abilities!

• Endless Mode: Try to get the highest score and see how long you can last!

• Puzzle Mode: Solve specific challenges with a set amount of moves!

• Online Play: Climb the ranks and challenge other players from all over

• Special Abilities: As you match blocks, gain the ability to unleash powerful attacks!

• Awesome Characters: Each with their own block sets, music theme, and special ability!

• Excitement: Lots of exclamation points!!!!

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Crystal Crisis

Fast-paced competitive puzzle game, that has enough single player to help you learn the ropes if you’re new to this style of game.

It has the same core game as Super Puzzle Fighter Turbo 2, which is a good enough starting point that you can find copy cats thru the last decades. This is a great remake of the genre, with some new tests in the form of “Bursts” (ultimate abilities you charge up and can alter your or your opponent’s board) – which adds some rotation of characters (no more just Ken!).

– Real player with 45.1 hrs in game

The ultimate puzzle fighter

It took 23 years, but finally we got a game based on Super Puzzle Fighter II that is better than the original. Crystal Crisis, developed by Nicalis, is a puzzle battler that not only feels really smooth to play, but also brings a charismatic set of indie characters (and also Astro Boy and Black Jack, from Tezuka Productions, for some reason), a lot of different modes to play and some nice additions that adds more depth to the established formula.

– Real player with 21.4 hrs in game

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Koihime Enbu 恋姫†演武

well if you like the anime, or anime girls you probably could like this as long evade story mode… so here i will say all i think about the devolopers of this game… sadly i can’t put insults or only insults so this will be hard.

Let’s say you make a fighting game based in something famous, for example dragon ball, then put a story mode that you know all people want to play and put a difficulty curve that go from the char not move to hey i will block all you will do and if you not block me i will do a combo that will kill you. And now think that for make players lose time each time you lose not only i will put a lose screen but a continue screen that take you to char select screen but if you change chars you will start again from 1 only for make you lose time… that is koihime enbu a pain in the xxx that devoloper never disguise. I have finish the story 3 times and nope each time it not becomes more easy it becomes more stressfull seeing how i need to learn a char enough well to defend and do specials for win.

– Real player with 19.6 hrs in game

With the recent influx of 2D fighters on Steam, sometimes the key to getting noticed is to have a different approach. Koihime Enbu’s angle is “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, but almost every character is a girl. Guan Yu? Cao Cao? Sun Shang Xiang!? All girls. Furthermore, this game is a spin-off of Koihime Musou, an adult visual-novel/strategy game about a young man who travels back in time to this Three Kingdoms era. To be honest, I’m a little surprised that Koihime Enbu is an awesome fighting game.

– Real player with 18.7 hrs in game

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Puyo Puyo™Tetris®

A Brief Summary

Overall, this is an amazing puzzle fighter, with a good amount of content to keep you coming back.

The Casual Experience (Singleplayer)

As a puzzle game crossover it does its job. The Tetris and Puyo mechanics are solid. It has everything you’d expect in a Tetris game like score, time attack and endless modes, plus a few other competitive modes (my favorite of which being Swap). The game even has a charming little adventure mode that’s actually a pretty good introduction to all the various modes in the game, and as a new player the adventure mode was actually relatively challenging.

– Real player with 188.2 hrs in game

I don’t even know where to start with this masterpiece.

Ever since 1991, this game has amassed an amazing group of loyal followers who enjoy perhaps every single installment of the game. This is one of those video games that only gets better and better with each sequel. It’s a competitive puzzle game, and when I mean puzzle, you gotta think carefully and use your head to carefully but also swiftly stack your puyos in such a way that you’ll be able to make create amazing chains as they erase themselves one after another.

– Real player with 150.1 hrs in game

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UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late[cl-r]

game has peaked 959 players at once all-time on steamcharts and is this good!? damn shawty

– Real player with 112.0 hrs in game

Best fighting game

– Real player with 86.4 hrs in game

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