When it comes to picking the best fighting game, there’s no shortage of options–the genre has been one of the industry’s most consistent since the early 1990s. Names like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Tekken have grown into some of the biggest series in the entire industry, let alone just fighting games, and they continue to get better through additional downloadable characters–some hailing from outside of the fighting game scene. At the moment, fighters are in the midst of another renaissance era.

As such, it might be intimidating to pick out a fighting game to play. Below, we run through our picks for some of the best fighting games you can play right now, whether you’re on PS5, Xbox, Switch, or PC. Every game listed here can be purchased and downloaded right to your machine without needing to dig up any old hardware, and you’ll be able to get into the fight whenever you like. From pure 1v1 fighters to chaotic platform battlers, from all-time classics to modern melees, these are the best of the best in fighting games in 2025.

While the present has plenty of fun to be found, the future is also very bright for fighting game fans. Riot Games has been hard at work on its 2v2 League of Legends-themed fighter 2XKO, while both Skybound and Arc System Works announced new tag-team fighting games–Invincible VS. and Marvel Tokon: Fighting Heroes, respectively–in early June.