Killer Instinct

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 5,056 reviews of which 4,410 were positive and 646 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Killer Instinct into these genres:

Fighting Action Multiplayer 2D Fighter Great Soundtrack Arcade Free to Play Singleplayer Competitive Local Multiplayer 2.5D Controller Gore Character Customization Beat 'em up PvP Female Protagonist Classic

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

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.

April 2024

Amazing game, I originally played on xbox, but now on steam and it's great, please bring arcades 1 & 2 to steam as well

March 2024

C-c-c-combo Brrreaker! This game is epic - I keep mashing a single button and my character starts doing all sorts of crazy combos on his own all while some guy in the background yells about how amazing I am. Introducing easy combos was a stroke of genius especially considering how in the previous title on the console pulling off a full combo felt like a Herculean task. All the old favorites are back - the Icy Guy, the Fire Dude, the Mohawk-sporting native american and Orchid the girl. Oh and there’s a fighting dinosaur, a werewolf, Rash from Battletoads with his signature sunglasses and a skeleton warrior reminiscent of Golden Axe. Perfect for chill gaming sessions with friends in front of the TV. Just make sure to grab some budget gamepads so you won’t fret over them getting wrecked during intense combo mashing. It's also free now with one free weekly rotating character and access to the SP and ranked.

March 2024

OVERVIEW: From my experience with fighting games, Killer Instinct was a name that stood out during chats with fellow players but about which memories slipped with the dust of time till I had the chance to redeem myself thanks to Iron Galaxy Studios. I started my new journey with Aganos, a Golem with the mission to hunt an evil sorcerer or... from what I could tell, someone at least hard to reason with Pros -» Gameplay: It is quite thoughtful that you may learn core abilities just by pausing the game and checking the required instructions. With an arcade stick it felt like a very responsive title that made me curious about other characters playstyle possibilities -» Soundtrack and sound effects: very inspired in both fronts -» Graphics: they can be adjusted to fit both old and new PC's -» Replayability: Very good (29 champions) and a dream if you enjoy equipment customization -» Difficulty: Seemed fair playing as Aganos Cons -» I usually only buy games I am passionate about... this wasn's a c-c-combo breaker to that streak SUMMARY: 8.3/10 gaming scale Disclosure: After clearing the main campaign and as I comeback for new sessions or new updates arise by developers, I intend to keep revising this review

Feb. 2024

If you are new to fighting games, this is a good one to start with. Its got a decent single player mode with Shadow Lords, the combo system is one of the most simple in the genre by basically having you create a combo sandwich, it has the original combo escape mechanic that a large amount of fighting games now use (not the exact one but this was the original) The characters are all unique and offer many different playstyles to help new players to the genre figure out what kind of characters they may want to play in other fighters. If you are looking to enter the FGC, this is a great game to start with because it feels good to play this with the hype announcer. Don't let the negative reviews fool you, Killer Instinct is a very great fighting game to play with friends, and you can still find a few matches here and there online. Don't knock it til you try it.

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Developer

Iron Galaxy Studios

Publisher

Xbox Game Studios

Release 27 Sep 2017

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