
✓ Both are 2D fighting games — sharing fighting mechanics, offline and single-player focus
≠ Stands apart with precision platforming, dark, oppressive atmosphere and setting scifi
Released 20 years after Art of Fighting.

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Within the “Offline” category, the closest game to Art of Fighting is PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale — scoring 73/100 on our similarity scale. Injustice 2 and The King of Fighters XIII follow close behind.
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Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Art of Fighting. Each one has been evaluated across 6 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.

✓ Both are 2D fighting games — sharing fighting mechanics, offline and single-player focus
≠ Stands apart with precision platforming, dark, oppressive atmosphere and setting scifi
Released 20 years after Art of Fighting.
✓ Fits the 2D fighting games cluster, with fighting mechanics, offline and single-player focus
≠ Its own twist: puzzle design, while skipping visual third person
Released 12 years after Art of Fighting.
✓ Nearly identical: fighting mechanics, offline and single-player focus.
≠ Missing: visual third person.
Same studio: SNK.

✓ Both are 2D fighting games — sharing fighting mechanics, offline and single-player focus
≠ Its own twist: melee combat, while skipping visual third person
Same studio: SNK.

✓ Fits the 2D fighting games cluster, with fighting mechanics, single-player focus and multiplayer gameplay
≠ Stands apart with precision platforming, vibe casual and melee combat, while skipping visual third person
Here comes a new challenger ! Roof Rage is a fast paced, easy to pick, hard to master, platform fighter. It is both a party game and a competitive game for platform fighter's players.
Where it drifts furthest from Art of Fighting: visuals.
Released 26 years after Art of Fighting.

✓ Both are 2D fighting games — sharing fighting mechanics, multiplayer gameplay and single-player focus
≠ Stands apart with competitive edge, melee combat and combat magic, while skipping visual third person
Marvel and Capcom join forces to deliver the most frenetic 3 vs. 3 tag battles ever with Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. This release comes fully loaded, including all previous DLC, and the Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works.
Released 19 years after Art of Fighting.

✓ Both are 2D fighting games — sharing fighting mechanics, single-player focus and multiplayer gameplay
≠ Its own twist: dark, oppressive atmosphere, competitive edge and strong narrative focus, while skipping visual third person
Released 23 years after Art of Fighting.

✓ Fits the 2D fighting games cluster, with fighting mechanics, single-player focus and multiplayer gameplay
≠ Where it differs: brings dark, oppressive atmosphere, competitive edge and strong narrative focus, while skipping visual third person
Released 27 years after Art of Fighting.

✓ Both are 2D fighting games — sharing fighting mechanics, single-player focus and multiplayer gameplay
≠ Stands apart with dark, oppressive atmosphere, competitive edge and melee combat, while skipping visual third person
Released 21 years after Art of Fighting.

✓ Fits the 2D fighting games cluster, with fighting mechanics, offline and multiplayer gameplay
≠ Where it differs: brings sports simulation, competitive edge and melee combat, while skipping visual third person
###The experiment Experimental side-scrolling fighting game for two players developed and published by the Messhof studio. Players compete in fencing in the pixelated game world.
Released 22 years after Art of Fighting.

✓ Fits the 2D fighting games cluster, with fighting mechanics, single-player focus and multiplayer gameplay
≠ Stands apart with sports simulation, competitive edge and melee combat, while skipping visual third person
Tekken 7 is a fighting game developed by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is the ninth installment in the series. ###Plot An unnamed journalist investigates the Mishima family history after his family got killed in a war that was started by Jin Kazama.
Released 23 years after Art of Fighting.
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