Play Order
0 / 15 playedFifteen tournaments in release order.
About The King of Fighters
The King of Fighters began in 1994 as SNK's crossover of Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting casts into 3-on-3 team battles on Neo Geo. Yearly entries through 2003 built the Orochi saga around Kyo and Iori, then the Nests and Ash sagas, with '98 and 2002 as beloved dream-match side entries.
Roman-numbered entries followed: XI in 2005, XII in 2009, XIII in 2010, XIV in 2016 rebuilding in 3D, and XV in 2022 closing the Verse saga. Play the saga entries in release order and treat the dream matches as optional. Fifteen main games sound steep, but each tournament runs a few hours in arcade mode.
Good to know
Release order follows the Orochi, Nests, Ash and Verse sagas in sequence. New players can start with '98 or 2002 for the mechanics, then run the story arcades from '94 forward. The many updates and UM remakes only matter to versus players. No sixteenth entry has been announced, so XV's story mode is the current endpoint.
