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MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls
Developer ARC SYSTEM WORKS CO., LTD
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is a 2026 fighting game developed by Arc System Works and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It was officially announced in June 2025, and was released for PlayStation 5 and Windows on August 6, 2026. Featuring characters appearing in Marvel Comics publications, the game is premised on a tag team system that entails beginning matches with a single fighter and an assist… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
383 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
39
Rotten
137 positive · 216 negative
95% range 34–44%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 137 | 216 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 2 | 17 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
2,698 of 5,621 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
38% recommend · 105 yes, 173 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 278 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (3,435 of 6,998 positive).
Several posters report the game blocks Linux and Steam Deck, calling it unacceptable. [1][2][3]
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Representative posts
- [6]
If you're seeing negative reviews and wondering why, It launched in a near unplayable bad state. It remained that way for a few days, but as of August 10th, 2026, the performance issues have been fixed with a 10GB patch, so my vote goes back to Recommended. One of the best fighting games we've had.
- [5]
From the Guilty Gear and Blazblue series, to games such as DRAGON BALL FighterZ, to now Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, Arc System Works continues to remind the game industry of why they are the best of the best in terms of creating the most stylish and accessible fighting games on the market. People who put hundreds, if not thousands of hours into games like GG Strive and Dragon Ball FighterZ will find something to …
- [1]
This game is aggressively hostile to Linux players for absolutely no reason. Not only is there a precedent of every (non riot) fighting game working on Linux, there is precedent of ArcSys games working great on Linux, as well as Sony published games working on Linux. Yet this game has decided to stoop low to straight up block any Linux player from even LAUNCHING the game. Unlike the previous ArcSys fighting game to …
- [13]
Don't get things twisted, the game by itself is amazing! Biggest reason I cant recommend it as of now is due to the following... - PSN Account is required - 8 Instances of Sony's SDK will run in the background while playing - Unneeded amounts of Anti-Cheat when they could've just stuck with EAC alone - Heavy instances of low performance when your specs BARELY reach the bare minimum. - IF YOU AREN'T RUNNING WINDOWS …
- [14]
Sony’s icarian and violently anti-consumer practices may have old yeller’d the easiest fgc layup i’ve seen in years. the included EAC/Theia/Playstation SDK combo can only be described as hostile. your framerate will be touched. play online and you're running sets like a water damaged toyota camry. there's required PSN account & overlay integration on your head, there's proton incompatibility on your head, there's at …
Summarised from 34 of the 298 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls sits at 39% positive across 353 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Multiple comparisons were favorably drawn between Capcom's games and Fighting Souls, with particular attention drawn towards the presence of launchers, assist characters and aerial combos, as well as the involvement of 4v4 fights, considered a direct iteration of the 3v3 setup popularized by the Marvel vs. Capcom games. Commentators also highlighted the game's resemblance to Arc System Works' prior licensed game Dragon Ball FighterZ (2018). Complaints were raised online about the need for a PlayStation Network account to play the game on Steam, resulting in a lack of availability in 132 countries and territories. Upon the release of the public beta in July 2026, the game's PC port was…
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Reactions
60 of 383 · most liked firstThis game is aggressively hostile to Linux players for absolutely no reason. Not only is there a precedent of every (non riot) fighting game working on Linux, there is precedent of ArcSys games working great on Linux, as well as Sony published games working on Linux. Yet this game has decided to stoop low to straight up block any Linux player from even LAUNCHING the game. Unlike the previous ArcSys fighting game to have Easy Anti Cheat, Dragon Ball FighterZ, this game will not even let Linux…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →such a fun game. of course sony has to ruin everything. the pc port plays miserable. the settings don t even display correctly. either the netcode or the poor performance makes the online play very bad, with rollback spikes. there's also the easy anticheat and all of sony sdks that use a lot of resources. the game is hostile to other ports also. and let's not mention PSN requirement. Edit: will i play this game because im stupid and i like shiny new things and am a fan of arcsys games ?…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sony, you want to be part of PC gaming market, then don't think you can run it like PSN. Your mandatory region locks, restrictions, logins, accounts...etc are not welcome here.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't get things twisted, the game by itself is amazing! Biggest reason I cant recommend it as of now is due to the following... - PSN Account is required - 8 Instances of Sony's SDK will run in the background while playing - Unneeded amounts of Anti-Cheat when they could've just stuck with EAC alone - Heavy instances of low performance when your specs BARELY reach the bare minimum. - IF YOU AREN'T RUNNING WINDOWS 11, THE GAME WILL CHUG, IF NOT BRICK... As much as I adore this game, i…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ORIGINAL: I'd love to say this is an amazing Marvel game, but it does not work on my $2,200 Steam Machine, or anything Linux for that matter, so as sad as I am about doing it, I'm giving this game a negative review. Please, support SteamOS at least. EDIT: The game's SteamOS compatibility now says that it is incompatible with Steam Machine & Steam Deck, but if the Kernel Level Anti-Cheat was going to make the game unplayable on Linux with no possible workaround, the SteamOS compatibility should…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sony’s icarian and violently anti-consumer practices may have old yeller’d the easiest fgc layup i’ve seen in years. the included EAC/Theia/Playstation SDK combo can only be described as hostile. your framerate will be touched. play online and you're running sets like a water damaged toyota camry. there's required PSN account & overlay integration on your head, there's proton incompatibility on your head, there's at least 9 frames of rollback (!!!) on your head, there's persistent…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was very excited for the game, but as is I can't reccomend it; On grounds that I can't actually launch the damn thing. The anti cheat leads into a completely black window, and my CPU being clocked to hell and back. not to mention to multiple multiple instances of the Playstation PC SDK trying to run. edit: after a solid amount of tinkering, and letting the black screen sit for about half an hour the game did finally load into it. Though it runs terribly, with constant micro jitters - So i'll…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR: Everything Sony Touches Turns to Garbage Arc System Works delivered a core gameplay masterpiece, but Sony choked it out with a bloated mess of background runtimes, SDKs, and anti-cheat. The resulting micro-stutters cause massive 8-frame rollback desyncs in crossplay, forcing PS5 players to turn crossplay off and locking PC out of 75%+ of the player base. On top of that, Sony intentionally blocked Linux/Steam Deck users by leaving a simple EAC back-end toggle disabled. Do not buy until…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok, let us recap': Forced PSN connection on bloody Steam and game blocked in more than 100 country... 70 euros for base edition plus a greedy 35 euro season pass for only FOUR characters (!)... Terrible optimisation in a genre known for not being very demanding for hardware... Well sadly, at this point, it doesn't really matter anymore if your game is rad as hell or absolutly gorgeous, the experience is soured. And why bother letting Arc Sys cook if you are gonna ♥♥♥♥ on the plate anyway?..…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a great game held back by abysmal decisions by the publisher (Sony). These are the main gripes I and many others have, but they’re just the tip of the iceberg. - No Linux support is absolutely unacceptable in 2026; Steam Machine and Steam Deck are unable to play the game under their default configurations and I have to dual boot just to play it. - EAC, Theia anti-tamper, and PlayStation SDK runtimes all contribute to poor performance and block even the ability to run the game in a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is a hard pass for Linux players. There is no good technical excuse for shutting out Linux here. Easy Anti-Cheat already supports Proton when developers enable it, and games like Marvel Rivals prove that an online Marvel title can make that effort. Instead, Tokon treats Linux players as disposable before they even reach the character select screen. A fighting game lives or dies on its community. Blocking an entire platform, especially one with a growing Steam Deck…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Forcing PSN login even on steam user (helldivers fiasco all over again) and no linux support.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're seeing negative reviews and wondering why, It launched in a near unplayable bad state. It remained that way for a few days, but as of August 10th, 2026, the performance issues have been fixed with a 10GB patch, so my vote goes back to Recommended. One of the best fighting games we've had.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wait until sony lifts off the PSN requirement. The game itself is good, dragged down by sony psn requirement. compared to guilty gear they have the same graphics but this one is cpu hungry with the only difference is sony launcher and the added anti cheat. Also don't expect this to run on linux. game is good but wait fo sony to leave it alone. If sony wanted an all digital, they shoul've make the digital experience convenient.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is Amazing, a peak anime Fighter. Arc Systems have made an amazing love letter to Marvel comics in how they treat these characters, and it is an interesting take on a team fighters. the game has been destroyed for me by the DRM as you can see on my specs I shouldn't be having frame issues, but I am. unstable framerates are terrible on a fighter. ontop of that the whole playstation account requirement just generally pisses me off. which wasn't on the steam page when preorders were up…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I cannot, in good faith recommend this amazing game in the state that this port is in. I also want to stress it is NOT ARCSYS' FAULT. Literally every problem here can be tracked back to sony. Just complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I hope they let arcsys fix the game, because if not, this game will die before the first year is over. At least on PC. This paired with the fact that this game cant be played in 100+ countries will make sure it will never be as big as it should've been. ♥♥♥♥ Sony. The queue times…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They said they'd fix the issues with CPU usage, but they ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ didn't. My GPU sits at 20-30%, while my CPU is constantly maxed out by Sony's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ services and the stupid anti-cheat. I KNOW that Arcsys is capable of making a well-optimized game, so its incredibly disappointing to see them ♥♥♥♥ it up this bad. Edit: Yes I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ know I don't meet the minimum specs, but people with machines much better than mine are having the same exact problem. And I can get the game to reach 40-50…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is gas, runs way better then the open beta, but no linux is ass, please add support for linux, thanks also please work on improving performance for other people, i am running the game fine and id like others to experience peak as well.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a shame. This was one of the most anticipated releases for the FGC and unless you have a cosmically lucky roll of the dice for your hardware setup or a very recent and powerful build, you will encounter sufficient frame drops and slowdown that will ruin the experience for both you and whomever plays against you. The fact that you can scroll just slightly on the store page and have the tile of "PC Performance Fixes Post Open Beta" staring right at you is just some extra salt in the wound.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even after the update on 8/11 it still does NOT run consistently on PC. Certain stages are super laggy even offline. Its still struggling to hold 60 fps and online is worse. I wouldn't recommend a purchase until they address these issues.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →there is currently no way to play Marvel Tōkon on linux because of Easy Anti-Cheat, even though other marvel games with the same anticheat software like Marvel Rivals are fully supported. I sincerely hope linux support will be added in the future.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is one of Arc Systemworks's best, their take on the Marvel universe is refreshing and brings a new side you'd usually never see, but is slogged down by Sony's poor business decisions. The PC port is obviously an afterthought held down by Sony's wishes to bring everyone into their ecosystem through banning numerous countries and required PlayStation accounts. If TNS can't run the game properly for tournaments, realistically neither can you. Avoid this version until a proper patch…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →FIX THE QUEUE TIMES There are many obvious complaints, like the mandatory Sony login, terrible optimisation and constant 8-frame rollback, but the infinite queue times don't get mentioned enough. I'm writing this review while I've been sitting in the ranked queue for 20 minutes. Do not buy this terrible game. edit: My game just crashed while waiting in queue.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excellent game undermined by a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ port sabotaged by Sony. Truly a tragedy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game is better after the patch on the 10th for stability but matchmaking times are still longer than they should be, no linux support, and includes aggressive anti-tamper that isn't really necessary for a fighting game (and impedes community-driven tools that have been added to other arcsys games). really want to change this to a positive recommendation because the game is REALLY fun but it's still held back by bizarre and frustrating anti-consumer decisions. Edit: lmao the cracked version…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good game but if you don't have a government funded super computer expect to not get even 30 fps
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cracked version of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls on PC runs better than official release - Variable.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is like visiting your cool friend's house and seeing their weirdly Sony shaped parent yell at them across the room and get a beer bottle digitally thrown at them. It's not enough to ruin the hangout, but it does leave awkward air.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fighting game running like this and not being compatible with linux is just shameful and damaging for every player unaffected in the long run
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As of now (early days after release) Tokon: Fighting Souls is a really fun fighting game, full of interesting mechanics and fun characters to play around with; different modes to explore and some neat stuff to unlock, but... The game cannot be considered in a playable state. One of the things that I enjoy the most is having fun with friends, this thing is almost completely invalidated by poor netcode and/or poor optimization. Because of how rollback network works people with very different…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →>New patch dropped today, performance is supposedly massively improved. >Yeah okay I'll give a try now that I might be able to actually run it. >Game crashes less than a second into the tutorial. >My whole entire PC crashes actually. >Okay. Rough start. Maybe I just got unlucky. >Boot PC and Steam back up and try again. >Get back into the tutorial, seems fine now. Game is running decently. >Crashes again after not even 5 minutes. >Cool. Awesome. >Boot the game back up. >The game doesn't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A potentially fun game ruined by DRM and Sony. Even after this most recent update my CPU continues to choke my pc to death whenever I play this game. If you want the playerbase to thrive on PC, get rid of the anticheat already. It's already dissappointing and dismaying enough that I pay full price for a game that doesn't want to run.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Remove need to register a PSN account to play online and I'll change my review. Sony really needs to stop trying to hamfist their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ into everything. It's probably for that reason that you'll be waiting thew better part of 5 minutes to find a match even though the game only came out like a week ago. Nobody wants this. What I've played is fun, especially as someone who doesn't like fighting games but its not worth the PSN hassle imo. Edit: Yes, I have opted not to return the game. It is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't recommend Marvel Tokon at this time. I have to boot into Windows from my other drive to play it, and I really dislike doing that unless it's absolutely necessary. Launching a game on a storefront owned by Valve, at a time when Valve is actively pushing for Linux support to help people escape the Windows ecosystem, and has even released an entire console/set-top-box PC (the Steam Machine), and not enabling the Easy Anti-Cheat option that allows Proton to run it, is a very strange and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unplayable, 5th crash in 1 hour and it was working fine earlier. Do not recommend on PC until they fix issues
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game blue screened my pc. i like the gameplay but not at the expense of my pc. i wish i refunded it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was absolutely HYPED when this game First got announced last year, like a new Arc Sys game and... It's Freaking Marvel! So I heard Online was rough, so I waited a few days just Labbed and played offline. FINALLY a patch hits, and I hop on......EVERY match has at least 3-5 Rollback frames, even on wired with 4 bars against someone. And this is after the 8-10 patch. Tokon is soooo fun to play tho, I love the mechanics and Doom is F'ing awesome. Right now though I can NOT Recommend this game. It…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dream job: doing fighting game animation for @arcsystemworks.com 🎮🔥 Their style, energy, and impact have inspired me for years. If I ever get the chance to contribute to something like Marvel Tōkon, I’m all in. 👊✨ Animation made for ShotOneFighters #marveltōkon #animation #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →🔔MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls Steam page is up! Cross-play Confirmed! Developed by ArcSystem Works and published by PlayStation, this 4v4 Tag-team fighting game will be releasing in 2026! Yes, it has motion inputs. Wish-list now: store.steampowered.com/app/3787240/MARVEL_Tkon_Fighting_Souls
neutral · AI labelView post →Our Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls review is finally here! @turboshawn.com spent a month with the game, and loves it! READ his written review here: giantbomb.com/reviews/marv... And WATCH him talk with Jan and Mike about their feelings on game: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZcC...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tōkon Warriors, Game Director Kazuto “Pachi” Sekine has a message to share with you about the road ahead for MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls. Read the full message here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/378... Thank you all for your continued passion, patience, and support.
neutral · AI labelView post →I didn't buy the game at release because I heard about all the problems. So I bought it after the big patch that was dropped on August 10th. Even then, the game won't get past the anti cheat screen for me. It force resets my computer. So sadly I can't recommend this game even with the latest patch. Hopefully it gets fixed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ready to master the roster? Character Guides is your new MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls video series, breaking down every fighter’s moves, tools, and game plan. First up: Captain America. Learn his projectiles, anti-air options, and Vibranium Shield counters. youtu.be/89EYLWiqLl4
neutral · AI labelView post →My specs are 9850X3D + 4090 the game is amazing visuals and gameplay but the techinical side of things is a mess. I don't often write bad reviews (This might be my 2nd) but I must say avoid this on PC till they fix issues: - Add a benchmark to GRADE PC systems so you can see if your online opponent has a setup that can run the game at 60FPS Locked. The way the netcode works is if there is any frame drops it rollback jumps to 8 frames. - Crashing due to new Microsoft update causing kernal…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls appears to block SteamOS / Linux. I somewhat expected this, because it's a Sony game that was likely to use PSN, but this means Marvel Tokon is now on a very short list of fighting games that don't work on Linux, including 2XKO and the online mode of Dragon Ball FighterZ.
negative · AI labelView post →PS+ members can claim a MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls PlayStation Plus Pack starting August 6 -5 avatars -A set of in-game Result Screen Character Poses featuring 20 characters blog.playstation.com/2026/07/28/p...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's been 3 weeks and already dead.. It had some matchmaking issues even at the first day when the game has 30k players on PC. I don't know where to start, bad PC port, poor connection, PSN account ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, matchmaking issues AND $60 price. Win for ArcSys because they've made a good game like always.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Todays patch fixed all my problems. Can play on max settings at 60fps with no Microstutters. Cant speak for online fix tho.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: Fun game with a great IP, Cool combos, Great single player content Cons: Unplayable Lag 2/3rds of the games, Your CPU is getting to 70-90% consistently I have a good pc I would say but this game is so unplayable for most of the games if it could be fixed itd be a good game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is fantastic and I love the character design and game flow, however the PSN requirement is a huge turn off and prevents certain regions from being able to play. If the PSN requirement was removed I would immediately recommend this game 11/10 but some of my friends cant play because of the region locks. Sony we don't need you. You need us!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Phoenix Cyclops joins MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls on November 2 Details on the first Year 1 DLC character, PlayStation Plus Game Trial, and more: play.st/4yv3f6C
neutral · AI labelView post →You've read the other reviews. You know what this is. Great game, terrible port.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game itself is great but the fact there is no performance benchmark requirement to play ranked online is killing the online experience because the average player does not understand playing the game sub 60 fps is playing it in slow mo and you will be forced to play the same powerpoint experience as them. SF4 had a benchmark requirement in 2009, what the ♥♥♥♥ happened? Also psn sucks remove it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I understand there are many issues that people are experiencing and that's not okay. my experience has been pretty positive I can't lie I have a pretty humble system (R5 5600x and 4060ti 8gb) and i'm getting a locked 60fps at all times basically on high settings using dlss quality. and i've had no other performance issues, or glitches/bugs in the menus while I may be a minority with my performance, I'm having a great time. The characters are fun, episodes are well made, rollback feels awesome…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game looks fun but can't really recommend it to Linux users and the optimisation is still ♥♥♥♥. I thought i'd play it on my deck but guess that's a no for now, other than that i really dig the cute lobby aesthetics but my god PLEASE OPTIMISE IT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. EDIT - After playing it for 3 hours i can say it runs fairly well for me but again i believe i have a decent enough rig. Still needs some performance updates !
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is hot dog water. mash fest + garbage roster. who pays 50 bucks for this. Also it takes 1000 years to load and forcing u to have a psn account should be banned on steam
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY. Ranked is dead on PC. East coast and kept going against the same person over and over. Plus the DRM garbage still not sorted out
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →From the Guilty Gear and Blazblue series, to games such as DRAGON BALL FighterZ, to now Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, Arc System Works continues to remind the game industry of why they are the best of the best in terms of creating the most stylish and accessible fighting games on the market. People who put hundreds, if not thousands of hours into games like GG Strive and Dragon Ball FighterZ will find something to love here, it's a treat for fans of fighting games and Marvel superheroes. After…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is still unplayable on PC post-patch. The performance is simply unacceptable, CAN NOT recommend this game at all until PC port is ACTUALLY FIXED. 8/21/2026 Update Fatal Crash still happens during character trials. Basically the same you were having problems before still happens now. And No! It is not a spec problem, my laptop runs games like sf6 n cp2077 smooth like butter on the highest setting.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the current state the game is unplayable online.
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