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REAL BOUT FATAL FURY 2: THE NEWCOMERS cover art

REAL BOUT FATAL FURY 2: THE NEWCOMERS

Code Mystics · SNK CORPORATION · 2025-09-27

Steam

Action

Franchise: Fatal Fury · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen

Releases: Sep 28, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

1998 arcade fighter REAL BOUT FATAL FURY 2: THE NEWCOMERS is now on Steam! Featuring the largest roster in the series, 23 characters are back and ready to GET IN THE RING! Also with rollback netcode and a host of new features!

84%
positive of 97 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
78/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers is a 1998 fighting game developed and published by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home platforms. It is the fifth mainline installment in the Fatal Fury series.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (30 reviews).
  • · Top 65% of 12,397 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.9k–4.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 97 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.24 at Humble Store (2022-05-10) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 26 of 41 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
242420252026Week of 2025-09-28: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-09-28: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-05: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-12: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-19: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-23: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-21: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-08: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-17: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-28: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-23: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-23: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$1.242016-01-062026-08-312016-01-06 — best price $4.992017-12-27 — best price $5.992018-09-14 — best price $2.992019-03-08 — best price $1.492019-08-02 — best price $2.032020-02-17 — best price $1.972020-03-30 — best price $5.992020-06-15 — best price $5.992020-10-24 — best price $5.992021-01-04 — best price $5.992021-04-05 — best price $5.992021-06-28 — best price $1.492021-10-27 — best price $1.792022-01-24 — best price $1.792022-04-18 — best price $2.992022-06-06 — best price $1.792022-08-22 — best price $1.792022-10-27 — best price $1.792023-04-14 — best price $1.492023-07-17 — best price $1.792023-11-21 — best price $1.792024-02-29 — best price $5.992024-04-25 — best price $5.992024-07-22 — best price $5.992024-10-08 — best price $5.992024-11-26 — best price $1.792025-02-28 — best price $1.792025-05-22 — best price $1.792025-09-28 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $13.392026-02-09 — best price $9.992026-03-27 — best price $1.792026-06-24 — best price $14.802026-08-07 — best price $16.842026-08-24 — best price $5.952026-08-31 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

112122026-06-07 — 25 pageviews2026-06-10 — 20 pageviews2026-06-13 — 37 pageviews2026-06-16 — 46 pageviews2026-06-19 — 27 pageviews2026-06-22 — 29 pageviews2026-06-25 — 23 pageviews2026-06-28 — 28 pageviews2026-07-01 — 35 pageviews2026-07-04 — 21 pageviews2026-07-07 — 19 pageviews2026-07-10 — 27 pageviews2026-07-13 — 28 pageviews2026-07-16 — 49 pageviews2026-07-19 — 33 pageviews2026-07-22 — 44 pageviews2026-07-25 — 23 pageviews2026-07-28 — 39 pageviews2026-07-31 — 27 pageviews2026-08-03 — 17 pageviews2026-08-06 — 33 pageviews2026-08-09 — 23 pageviews2026-08-12 — 12 pageviews2026-08-15 — 19 pageviews2026-08-18 — 35 pageviews2026-08-21 — 28 pageviews2026-08-24 — 32 pageviews2026-08-27 — 34 pageviews2026-08-30 — 45 pageviews2026-09-02 — 29 pageviews2026-09-04 — 33 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportGamepad RecommendedSteam Cloud

1 supported languages: English

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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