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Todd Mason

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is winning players back, and SNK knows exactly why it lost them

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves had one of the fighting game community’s most electrifying debuts when it launched just weeks before Evo Vegas in April 2025. It immediately landed a Main Stage spot and delivered a Top 8 that had the crowd on its feet. The numbers have waned since but, heading into Evo Vegas 2026, the developers at SNK are talking openly about what went wrong, what they fixed, and why they believe a resurgence is underway for a game that once threatened to clipse fighting game legends like Street Fighter 6.

The numbers tell the story

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