KIZUNA ENCOUNTER: SUPER TAG BATTLE
Code Mystics · 2025 · Action, 2D Fighter, Arcade, 2D, Colorful
PC
Very Positive88% · 50
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About KIZUNA ENCOUNTER: SUPER TAG BATTLE
A frenzied arcade fighter like no other! Tag battle bedlam from 1996—now on Steam!
Dynamic online matches, New feature-rich Practice Mode, Frenetic 4-player fights!This edition comes retrofitted with rollback netcode for fun, fast-paced online. Game speed selectors, a hitbox
viewer, and other new training functions help prepare you for the battles ahead.
Unite and fight in the most engaging KIZUNA ENCOUNTER version to date! The whole world awaits!
10 warriors, 2 ruthless bosses—1 apocalyptic fight for the future!
8 returnees from the previous installment “SAVAGE REIGN”.Square up with 2 brand-new fighters: resistance leader Rosa and cane-fighting crusader Kim.
You can even take boss characters King Leo and Jyazu into battle!
(1v1 and 1v2 battles only )
Thrilling online matches! Multiplayer mayhem with 4 players at once!
Engage in seamless dystopian duels powered by rollback netcode. Multiple tournament formats let you mix it up in lobbies for up to 9 players.You can even team up and throw down with fellow challengers in simultaneous 4-player battles—a feature limited to
select arcade cabinets at the time of original release!
Tag with the best brawlers and take the fight worldwide!
Modern-day overhaul for an arcade classic
Hit the new and improved Practice Mode, where you can tailor lab sessions to your needs—complete with speed selectors, a hitbox viewer, and more. Master brutal combos as you prepare for each formidable matchup!An integrated jukebox (featuring the game's soundtrack) and a diverse collection of achievement challenges round
out the suite of single-player content.
The result—an expanded KIZUNA ENCOUNTER experience for the modern day!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Kizuna Encounter is praised as an overlooked SNK fighting gem with an engaging tag-team mechanic where both characters must survive or it's game over, offering solid arcade gameplay and local multiplayer modes in a well-made port. Common criticisms include the barebones package with minimal documentation, lack of online co-op functionality, and complaints about the pricing being too high relative to alternatives like Fightcade that offer online play.
Quick review from a filthy casual: I play a lot of fighting games - but generally single player as I don't really have the time to devote to becoming at least competent(!) Arcade modes are generally my go to. I'd never even heard of this one until a couple of days ago. It's a lot of fun thanks to a really neat mechanic. It's a tag team game - 2 characters on each side - and you can only swap in a smallish zone on your starting side. Here's the catch - if either of your characters are knocked out it's game over. It's a really simple mechanic that keeps you engaged i.e. "can I get that last hit or should I back out?" etc. It's the usual Code Mystics quality - and the usual barebones package. A bit of a 'how to' wouldn't go amiss but at least there's a practice mode in this release.5 found this helpful
I feel like Kizuna Encounter is another overlooked gem in SNK's stable of amazing fighting games. Although X-Men vs. Street Fighter gets credit as the first true tag-team fighting game, I believe development on Kizuna Encounter began before that of Capcom's game. Additionally, Kizuna Encounter is certainly the first to do it with a weapons-based fighter. Also, each game was released in the arcade mere days apart. Regardless, Kizuna Encounter is an incredibly polished and well-crafted fighting game that incorporates so many new-at-the-time mechanics which laid the groundwork for other tag-team fighters afterward. Considering this was an entirely new idea in the fighting game genre, Kizuna Encounter turned out to be an incredible effort that both continued the saga of characters from Savage Reign and helped cement SNKs legacy as fighting game developers. The relatively small roster of characters is made better by how unique each of them play. The combo system (similar to that of the Darkstalkers series, e.g. chain weak>medium>strong attacks in said order while connecting specials) is essentially the same for every character, however, each one has slightly different timing, dis…4 found this helpful
An incredible port, that also has local co-op and also a 4 player party mode in offline. The only thing it is missing is online co-op. For superfans of fighting games, like myself, there are multiple characters that were only seen again very rarely, as in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum, but you've probably never played them before. Eagle was a ton of fun for me, as he has Clark's throw and an air projectile. Pretty great. Oh and thanks for not lying about online co-op like Capcom has done for three games so far.3 found this helpful
32 reviews? Here's 33. Best buy this on sale, horribly overpriced. Still don't know why people buy this while Fightcade exists and has better online.2 found this helpful
This is a game that I really don't understand BUT this is another classic SNK fighting game, if buying them makes it so that there are more of them, then I won't stop until THE ENTIRE LIBRARY is available on steam.2 found this helpful
Excellent fighter. Classic game. Really cool to see this getting a port on Steam. If you like this, look into the other SNK games. SNK games go on sale all the time.
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