Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is a phenomenal fighting game hampered by corporate meddling

Is Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls one of the best fighting games of recent times? Yes, I would say so.

Given its developer is Arc System Works — creators of Guilty Gear, Blazblue, and the excellent Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising — it was a pretty safe bet that we'd be served a high quality fighting game with mountainous respect and reverence for Marvel and its roster of supers, mutants, and weirdos.

Review info Platform reviewed: PC Available on: PS5, PC Release date: August 6, 2026 I love fighting games, but I'm not usually one for tag fighters — often because I find learning more than one character intimidating and time-consuming.

So, when Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls was first revealed last year as a 4v4 tag fighter, I'd already resigned myself to thinking: 'well, that's probably not for me.' Not two, not three, but four? You're having a laugh.

I needn't have worried so much.

Arc System Works has designed Fighting Souls such that learning a quartet of fighters inside and out is absolutely not necessary.

It's possible to play that way at a higher level, of course.

But as your team only has a single health bar, you can rock one character as your main, while relying on the remaining three as assist moves to help you out in a pinch.

It helps, too, that Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls has a fantastic onboarding process for new players.

The game's story mode is broken into five episodes — each focused on a group of heroes (the Avengers, X-Men, etc.) or the villainous Knights of Doom.

Episode chapters are structured to introduce you to fighters and their strengths, or otherwise various important system mechanics.

Training tools are similarly great, with a fully-featured training mode, combo trials, and an ingenious 'level-up missions' category that tasks you with creating your own combos to reach a damage threshold.

All good so far, but I unfortunately have to stress that Tokon's immediate future looks perilous.

The PC version of the game is currently facing myriad issues, many of which seem to be a direct result of corporate interference.