# The King of Fighters ARENA — user reviews > 98 indexed App Store user reviews of The King of Fighters ARENA by Netmarble Corporation, rated 4.39/5 from 1,016 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-king-of-fighters-arena/id1622002182/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-king-of-fighters-arena/id1622002182.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 764 · 4★ 88 · 3★ 49 · 2★ 25 · 1★ 90 ## What do users think of The King of Fighters ARENA? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Awesome fighting game - 👍 Great graphics and gameplay - 💯 Reminds me of childhood arcade games **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and connection issues - 🔌 Requires internet connection to play - 🕹️ Difficult to block and counter attacks - 🕹️ Unbalanced combat mechanics **Commonly reported bugs** - Stuck on loading screen - Screen goes black during matches - Frequent disconnections and login issues **Most requested features** - Add offline mode - Implement controller support - Introduce story mode and character customization - Improve online matchmaking and add social features - Expand character roster and stage selection ## Newest reviews (18 of 98) ### 4/5 — Great Game, But Needs Social and Competitive Enhancements *2024-06-19* Great game, but a feature for a friend list would be good, allowing players to add and remove friends, and even have rematches. Also, why was the team play battle option removed? The game gets boring playing solo all the time. More players please! The current range is good, but adding more from other years would improve it. To make the game even more competitive, consider adding a tournament mode where players can enter with 1, 2, or 3 characters. Characters entering the tournament for bronze, silver, gold, and diamond tier members should be of similar upgrade levels to keep the play fair. Players would register with a certain amount of FM or mystic cubes (the easiest upgrading items to get in the game), and the winner claims the entry prize. I hope my suggestions are considered. ### 4/5 — Needs more updates ? *2024-02-15* Game could be the best fighting game on mobile but has a lack of updates and characters . It’s plenty KOF series characters missing from the original series that should he added on here ### 3/5 — hmmm *2023-12-20* game play and graphics are great.. but problem is you can't play online.. everytime you try to play online, before your game starts you get the message that your opponent connection failure.. so basically you just play with AI. ### 2/5 — Could have more characters *2023-10-26* Give more player to choose ### 4/5 — Please add controller support *2023-09-15* Please it would be very playable and useful to play with ### 3/5 — Complain *2023-07-19* This game is outstanding. The best KOF game I’ve ever played on a mobile. I love the game, but sometimes it logs me out in the middle of the game even though my internet connection is strong. This will cause me to loose the game. Maybe if the was a way for one to log back in immediately after that and continue playing from where the glitch occurs. Also a pause button would be good. Maybe a pause of about 15seconds to 20seconds Also, please you'll need to work on the exchange market between diamonds and mystery cubes. It's over 3 months now and I have been trying to exchange my diamonds to mystery cube all to no avail. It's really vesking, and am sure am not the only one who hates this. If you doubt, you all can include a little 30sec survey in the next update of the game about this and be amazed how many players hate the exchange market between diamonds and mystery cubes. You could add a survey reward as an incentive to complete the survey ### 4/5 — Fun game but needs fixing and more characters *2023-07-16* This is fine a like most things about this game but its missing ways to get skin’s better ways to get diamonds and more skins to and a character i hope you guys put in is shen woo pls put him in it it would be amazing ### 2/5 — Why is this happening? *2023-06-10* Ok so Hi i was really interested in this game and i still am but for some reason the screen is just pitch black when i join a match even just single player to and it also happened in the tutorial so Ive been just playing blind basically can you please fix this? ### 3/5 — Time scam *2023-05-20* The “enhancement fail” is the biggest load of garbage when it comes to this game. You earn mastery points for each player through fights and rewards. Mastery points are required to upgrade a character but there’s this “enhancement failure” garbage that brings the character down a level. What’s the point of this? To force you to use your real money to acquire mastery points since earning them through fights take much longer. Imagine having to fight 19 times with a character in order to have enough points to upgrade only for that upgrade to fail and bring you down a level. Now you have to fight another 19 fights to earn more points…..or you can just buy diamonds with real money and pray that the random cartridge selections gives you the character your actually looking to upgrade. It’s as if the game developers do not want you to succeed in this game unless you spend money ### 4/5 — Great game, but needs more added *2023-05-15* Game looks great, feels great and operates great. But there’s things within the game like the rewards system that does nothing for the player nor character. We can’t do things like purchase skins with the rewards we earn in fights, which I think would be a great idea. Another thing is the move set. Have a feature with the original button inputs, just to see if it works well and if the players like it, and for us to choose which feature we’d like to use at any given time. That way it’s not just easy mode all the time Lastly, we need more characters. And I don’t mean one’s that only can be unlocked if you buy them, I mean give us some unlockables from previous games, even have cross over characters with the stages. This game is fun but it can go beyond. Hopefully you guys read this and look into, literally. None the less, real fun game. ### 4/5 — Controller support please *2023-03-04* Nice work so far ### 3/5 — Did you break the app with the recent update ??? *2023-02-27, version 1.1.3* I updated and it is saying go to title and it does not work anymore ### 2/5 — Ridiculous *2023-02-25, version 1.1.2* It comes to a point where 70% of the players are donate. 3 hits down and you are forced to either buy items or leave the game. Hence farewell ### 2/5 — Why *2023-02-19, version 1.1.2* Why can’t i play against my friends anymore ?game just lost mad points it was fun playing against my friends and not just random people online ### 3/5 — Nadi1234 *2023-02-14, version 1.1.2* Well this game is good but it doesnt war the quick matches like singular and elemination battle it says that i dont have internet connection nut i know that my internet is really strong so pls fixx this and im gona give five star thank you ### 3/5 — Complain *2023-02-14, version 1.1.2* This game is outstanding. The best KOF game I’ve ever played on a mobile. I love the game, but sometimes it logs me out in the middle of the game even though my internet connection is strong. This will cause me to loose the game. Maybe if the was a way for one to log back in immediately after that and continue playing from where the glitch occurs. Also a pause button would be good. Maybe a pause of about 15seconds to 20seconds ### 3/5 — Fun but... *2023-02-12* It is fun but there is this were characters have stamina and I have to wait 2 hours to play my favourite character once! But others then that it is really fun it is my type of game. ### 3/5 — Having to redownload repeatedly in game startup *2023-01-24, version 1.1.1* I’m very annoyed at having to download the online data via wifi or cellular data over and over. It’s almost as if you’re stealing the data it’s wild! Please update and fix + only 1 mode is pretty boring. People spam grabs rigorously. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Stuck on the loading screen *2023-07-15* I just installed the game and downloaded all xtra file but the game doesn’t load properly!! It’s just stuck on the loading screen ### 1/5 — Disappointment *2023-01-24, version 1.1.1* This game is great but it has major flaws. Every time I get kicked out because of the wifi I get penalized for an hour. Yet people that log out don’t get anything when it happens to me it’s not by choice but people that do have a choice and choose to cheat because they are loosing get no consequences. Think that’s B.S!!! ### 1/5 — Worst fighting game ever *2023-01-06, version 1.1.1* This game rewards spam there are no complex key binds in the game so people just spam three moves and hope for the best. Then the game is very unbalanced, what pvp arena fighting game needs to allow players to make a specific character stronger, that is not fair to new players and there are specific characters like Orochi that already have a clear advantage over other characters. I would hit a very long combo on someone just to loose to one special move and an ultimate move. Sadly this game can not be fixed because that’s just the way devs are. ### 1/5 — Ping minimum 200 *2022-12-30* New Zelândia ms minimum 200 you can’t play. ### 1/5 — Please don’t spend money … *2022-12-26, version 1.1.1* This game is hot trash . No balance . It has a block button but people can just spam moves leaving no space for any sort of counters . Enemies can juggle u around by just button mashing without little ways to escape . I don’t know why I had any faith in netmarble or snk and will be more vigilant in the future before investing time and money into a game by this company . ### 1/5 — Not installing *2022-12-13* Its show a notice: Its cannot be installed. Please try again later. Why show this? As soon as fix this problem ### 1/5 — Unblock-able specials? *2022-12-07, version 1.0.6* LOL you got to be kidding me, why didnt you guys just leave the pvp on KOFAS and just worked on the connection and made it to where u can play the roster? Or use your characters????? UN BLOCKABLE SPECIALS? Blocking in this game is terrible but soamming unblockables out of a best of 2 basically is terrible fighting mechanic terrible ### 1/5 — Fundamentaly broken *2022-12-07* Everything hits on the ground, meaning if you wasted your evasive, youre done. Game is essentialy just who dodges first and not an actual fighting game. If the character you play has any advancing move, you win, simply because it alows you to crush through your opponents defence super easily. I was hyped to play this game but turns out its garbage. If you're looking for a legit fighting game on mobile, skip this dumpster fire of a game. Truly bringing shame to the mobile fgc😐 ### 1/5 — All Star asset flip into NFT nonsense *2022-12-02, version 1.0.6* The amount of time and resources put into this should have just gone into the game they pulled all of their assets from. Such a lame cash grab with NFT nonsense. They should be sad they took time away from all stars for this mess ### 1/5 — Perso intéressant mais… *2022-11-21* Les personnages sont vraiment intéressant, mais le jeu freeze tellement, une partie sur deux , j’aime bien mais faudrait régler ça le gameplay est bon sinon ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Cool Game *2024-10-11* Awesome fighting game for mobile. It won’t steer you wrong from having a good time. 10/10 ### 5/5 — Great game but with improvement better *2024-07-17* The game is by far great . Graphics and gameplay are top . Would be better if they can add story mode and endings and prologues just like teklen and street fighter also characterful customization and more stage selection could make this game better . Hope snk really releases an update to the game with these recommendations would make it better . Also it is easy compared to the console game which are hard to master . ### 5/5 — I need it in offline mode!!! *2023-11-01* the game is incredible!!! . It has good graphics. It reminds me a lot of my childhood when I played it on "arcade" game machines. The bad thing is that you have to be connected to the internet to play. Please update it in offline mode, I would greatly appreciate it. I am the number 1 fan of this game. I look forward to it working in offline mode. thank you !! Please follow my opinion. ### 5/5 — My opinion about the game *2023-10-29* The game not very good but it kind of fun to play. I think the game need to make the shield more strong and you also could add room creation feature for who want to play with friend ### 5/5 — I like the game so far no matter what people say *2023-10-22* Perhaps at the VERY beginning these people say the game wasn’t good but the gameplay is beautiful with the buttons and defense and play mechanics are great, graphics 5/5 being that I’ve been a game tester since I was 10 I see this game as an absolute win , I hope they create more, love it so far and the entire franchise. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2023-06-26* I love this game it reminds me of street fighter 5. I don’t like that there’s a timer when you have to use you’re character again. Other then that am fine. ### 5/5 — Camera *2023-03-24* move the camera closer to them. or add in the settings so that it is adjustable ### 5/5 — We Need to be able to block ALL of the moves *2023-02-27, version 1.1.3* I’m tired of seeing people get cheap damage from unblock able finishers and ultimate skills. It’s extremely unbalanced and extremely easy to abuse. PLEASE FIX ### 5/5 — Backbone *2022-12-05, version 1.0.6* It would be really amazing if we could use backbone with this game I tried it already and it kind of works. It’s amazing !! ### 5/5 — Amazing Game but the controls need work *2022-11-29, version 1.0.6* The game is really good. You can change the controls in setting but it still needs work, I feel like it needs a better layout so the controls become easier and better to make combos. Other than that the game gets a 5 ⭐️ for me! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*