Killer Instinct on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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The legendary fighting franchise is back with over-the-top action, a wild cast of combatants, rocking reactive music, and C-C-C-COMBO BREAKERS!!! Choose your ultimate combatants each with fluid animations, unique combat tactics, and enthralling special attacks.

Killer Instinct is a fighting, action and multiplayer game developed by Iron Galaxy Studios and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Released on September 27th 2017 is available only on Windows in 8 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil and Russian.

It has received 5,154 reviews of which 4,489 were positive and 665 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is free to play on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-750 @ 2.67 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.4 GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 or AMD Radeon HD 5850
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 48 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025
A great classic fighting game! A wonderful update from the classic 90's KI games!
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Feb. 2025
One of the best fighting game revivals and a proper example on how to revitalize a sleeping IP. Each character is unique, gameplay is buttery smooth, dynamic battle soundtrack, awesome art style, lagless online matches, the complete package is a just a chef's kiss. For anyone out there itchin' to play something fresh that isnt' Street Fighter, Tekken, Marvel VS Capcom, this one is a JACKPOT. I got a full rostered game for just 10 bucks and that.. you cannot beat.
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Sept. 2024
This is legitimately one of the most hype fighting games i've ever played. (And i've played almost all of em) But the community is very small and despite a great new update there's still not many players anymore. If you buy the full game the CPU is a lot of fun to play against, there's plenty of fun challenging characters, but online matches are sparse, just keep that in mind. Here's hoping for a KI2 one day. Edit: Oh and the boss/guest characters are unbalanced AF lmao.
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June 2024
Super snappy gameplay, varied cast of characters, and a nice amount of modes (Shadow Lords in particular is very fun)—easily a hidden gem of a fighting game. So glad this can be played across platforms after all these years!
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April 2024
KI at it's best... well kind of. The gameplay, graphics and music are great... this game is sure underappreciated, but they could not end what they started and that makes the game feel a bit incomplete. I'm a big fan of the series so it's easy to recommend, but try the free version at least if you like it, well... buy it! Here's hoping they make another one in the future.
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Killer Instinct
8.4
4,489
665
Online players
35
Developer
Iron Galaxy Studios
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Release 27 Sep 2017
Platforms