THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 UNLIMITED MATCH
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 1.7h 78.4h to 100%
- Value
- $8.82/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 5,407 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 38 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
KOF 2002 UM is the 2nd title in the UM Series and a fully upgraded ver. of KOF 2002, a masterpiece of the KOF Series deserving its place of honor alongside KOF ’98. Based on THE NESTS CHRONICLES, 2002 UM includes the most characters of any title in the KOF Series, and fighting game history!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
68 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 67 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection ($39.99, scores 49) and Capcom Arcade Stadium (free, scores 1).
More about THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 UNLIMITED MATCH
This site sampled 459 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 503 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 1.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 78, 46 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
25% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
the chinese players are on something when playing this game...asians are going to kick your ass in this game but it's really fun. no offense!
1 more review
KOF 2002 has been my favorite fighting game since the arcade days, and I consider this Unlimited Match version the best one. It's a shame the netcode on PC isn't as good as in emulators, but at least it's there, and it even has rollback. I recommend it as the best representative of the golden era of 2D fighters.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 UNLIMITED MATCH scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/222440/the-king-of-fighters-2002-unlimited-matchReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 3, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.