Fantasy Strike
Skip · Action · 2019
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 1.6h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 61% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GT 555M, 9800 GTX / Radeon R7, HD 8500, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A fighting game designed from the ground up to be so easy to control that even non-fighting game players can play it, yet deep enough to play in tournaments. Vibrant graphics and excellent online play.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
It is less well reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. On the same math Brawlhalla (free, scores 51) and Fraymakers ($19.99, scores 44) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
4 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 30, 21:49 UTC.
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 21:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
On the surface seems like a decent fighter for new players. Underneath all that is a pretty deep game with emphasis on footsies and whiff punishes. Playing this might improve your fundies,
Fantasy Strike is one of those fighting games that people saw, it gave them hope that more fighting games will adopt the free to play stlyle, and then completely fumbled. This game came out in 2019, and only in 2025 did they think "hey maybe, we shouldn't restrict friends from playing". I'm not even making this up btw, this is literally the third paragraph of their last update in 2025: "Starting today, we're lifting...
I have never played a fighting game that is so legitimately bad. The number of moves you can do are severely limited and you can't crouch. There's no health bar. You have a bar with 6 units that go with every hit you take. Every attack deals 1 unit, regardless of how heavy/strong the attack looks or feels, but other characters can just deal 2 units of damage with using your super move. The balancing of characters...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Fantasy Strike scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/390560/fantasy-strikeReviews 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 Sep 23.
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