In-game event15 Jul 2024Steam Fighting Games Fest!The Steam Fighting Games Fest is online! We're celebrating with a whopping 70% off the Core and Collector's Packs for Fantasy Strike ! Now's the best time to dust off the old arcade stick and grab all of those fighting games you've been eyeing over the years. Be sure to support all of your favorite indie developers during the sale by gifting your favorites to your friends!
It’s time again for the Steam Autumn Sale! From November 24th until December 1st at 10am PST you can save 34% on the Core and Collector’s Packs for Fantasy Strike . More details on what you get over the Free-to-play version: The Core Pack gives you access to several game modes: Arcade mode, Versus mode for local play (including standard and team battle), Survival modes (including 4 sub-modes),…
Spooky times are here again! From October 28th - November 1st you can save 34% on the Core and Collector's Packs for Fantasy Strike , our colorful, modern, free-to-play fighting game. More details on what you get over the Free-to-play version: The Core Pack gives you access to several game modes: Arcade mode, Versus mode for local play (including standard and team battle), Survival modes (inclu…
This is a pretty big update on technical and aesthetic levels. Aesthetically, we’ve changed the 3D shaders as well as the actual 3D models for several characters to improve their graphics. We’ve also added new costumes for Grave, Jaina, and Setsuki to the in-game store. We’ve updated our game engine to a version of Unity that’s three years newer than the version we were using and this allowed u…
Let’s get the summer started off right with another Steam sale! From June 24th until July 8th at 10am PST you can save 34% on the Core and Collector’s Packs for Fantasy Strike. More details on what you get over the Free-to-play version: The Core Pack gives you access to several game modes: Arcade mode, Versus mode for local play (including standard and team battle), Survival modes (including 4…
Happy Holidays everyone! It’s time for another Steam sale. From December 22nd until January 5th at 10am PST you can save 34% on the Core and Collector’s Packs for Fantasy Strike . More details on what you get over the Free-to-play version: The Core Pack gives you access to several game modes: Arcade mode, Versus mode for local play (including standard and team battle), Survival modes (including…
This month there are lots of bug fixes, some balance changes for Quince, and the new ability to see how many gems (virtual currency) your account has on OTHER platforms than your current one. (By the way, gems don’t travel across platforms, as per Sony’s requirements, but the items you buy with gems DO travel across platforms with your account.) PlayStation 5 The game now works on PlayStation 5…
The holidays are almost here, so it’s time for the Steam Autumn Sale ! From November 25th until December 1st you can save 34% on not just the Core and Collector's Packs for Fantasy Strike , but also all quantities of Gems in the shop! More details on what you get over the Free-to-play version: The Core Pack gives you access to several game modes: Arcade mode, Versus mode for local play (includi…
Hello everyone and happy holidays from Sirlin Games! Be sure to check us out on the Steam Autumn Sale, but also please join our dedicated community in nominating Fantasy Strike for the Steam Game Awards' "Labor of Love" award. We've been working hard on Fantasy Strike for many years now though Early Access, our Steam/PS4/Switch launch, and now again through our free-to-play transition back in J…
Spooky times are here again! From October 29th - November 2nd you can save 34% on the Core and Collector's Packs for Fantasy Strike , our colorful, modern, free-to-play fighting game. More details on what you get oveere the Free-to-play version: The Core Pack gives you access to several game modes: Arcade mode, Versus mode for local play (including standard and team battle), Survival modes (inc…
his patch is live now on all platforms. NEW FEATURES: Dummy Recording You can now record and playback actions of the dummy character in practice mode. The default controls are pressing in left thumbstick button to record, and the right thumbstick to playback. (You can change these controls on the button config screen.) While using this feature, handy on-screen icons show you whether you’re abou…
There’s a lot of fixes and changes in this patch. The main technical improvements involve fixes to crashes, disconnects, and blackscreens, especially after ranked matches. There are some new options for the practice mode dummy to automatically do actions after getting up from a knockdown, blocking, or getting hit. And there are a lot of balance changes, especially buffs for Rook, Onimaru, and Q…
This is a small update with fixes to several technical issues. The update only affects the Steam and PlayStation 4 versions of the game. (The next patch will include these fixes in the Nintendo Switch version as well.) -- To play the game online on PS4, you no longer need a PlayStation+ subscription (Sony no longer requires us to require it.) -- Fixed a crash that could happen from being in pra…
We’ve updated the Fantasy Strike matchmaking servers with several fixes. These fixes are in effect right now and do not require players to download a patch (because they are all server-side fixes). Here’s what’s fixed: --The server’s performance has been optimized, meaning it can handle more players without getting overloaded. --Fixed several problems with the matchmaking algorithm that only ar…
(While we know these are the Steam forums, we include notes on changes to all platforms, for the sake of completeness. Especially because fixes to online disconnects and crashes on PS4 and Switch improve crossplatform play on Steam.) MAIN FIXES -- Having the core pack now lets you challenge any player on any platform to a friend match, even a free player. Free players on Switch can now be chall…
Fantasy Strike is now free to play. The term “free to play” has a wide range of meanings and we’re excited to tell you that we’re not talking about “one character is free, please buy the rest for $5 each.” No, we mean all characters are free. All Characters Free Specifically, you can play all characters in online casual play, online ranked play, offline practice mode, and offline “single match”…
Give the gift of fighting games to your loved ones this holiday season! From December 19th - January 2nd you can save 34% on the Steam version of Fantasy Strike , our colorful, modern take on the fighting game genre. Easy to learn but difficult to master, Fantasy Strike is a great starting point for not just newcomers to the genre, but also veterans looking for something new that emphasizes str…
This update is live on all platforms right now. (While we know these are the Steam forums, we include notes on changes to all platforms, for the sake of completeness.) FULL CROSSPLAY Fantasy Strike now has full crossplay amongst all its platforms: Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, and Steam (Mac / Windows / Linux). That means when you’re in the casual or ranked online queues, you get the benefit…
This update is live on all platforms right now. (While we know these are the Steam forums, we include notes on changes to all platforms, for the sake of completeness.) This month, we have lots of bug fixes for you, all aimed at making things work even more smoothly. There is a new feature for music that allows you to sit in silence in the menus while waiting for an online match, but then still…
This update is live on all platforms right now. (While we know these are the Steam forums, we include notes on changes to all platforms, for the sake of completeness.) We’ve been busy fixing as many issues as possible that came to light after our launch last month. We fixed a lot of problems that could cause either crashes or hangs during online play, fixed lots of little user interface things,…
Fantasy Strike has now launched on Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , and Steam (Windows, Mac, and Linux)! Thank you to our Patreon patrons for supporting us for so long as well as everyone who played the game during Steam Early Access. In celebration of our launch, here is a cinematic trailer featuring the Fantasy Strike characters: You can read the patch notes for the launch version here.*** J…
After over four years of development, Fantasy Strike launches today on Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , and Steam (Mac / Windows / Linux)! This update brings out of Steam Early Access to full release, and is live right now. BOSS RUSH MODE Our new, biggest single player mode is now available. Boss Rush is where we can stop worrying about making things competitively fair and just let you do ridi…
This update to Fantasy Strike is live right now. This month has lots of bug fixes as we polish things up during this beta period. The biggest fix is to a problem we had with spectating online matches. Sometimes, spectating a match would cause a disconnect for the players actually playing the match. That should be fixed now. Also, there’s a spiffy new energy background on the two-player characte…
This update to Fantasy Strike is live right now. This month we really tightened up Fantasy Strike from a software development standpoint. The gameplay is already in place, but we want everything about it as a piece of software to be as smooth and polished as possible. We massively reduced the game’s file size, reduced loading times (they were already fast!), fixed some bugs with online play tha…
This update to Fantasy Strike is live right now. PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS We’ve done massive performance improvements. In order to make the game run faster, we had to make the tradeoff of...also making the graphics look better. The game runs about 250% the fps it used to--yes really. About 2.5x as fast. This is totally insane and we hope you tell someone about it. There are now only two graphic…
Time for another Steam Sale! Starting today and ending on February 11th , you can save 20% on Fantasy Strike , Yomi and Puzzle Strike , as well as their respective DLCs. This time around, Steam is taking an additional $5 off of your first order of $30 or more, so be sure to toss one (or all!) of our games into your first shopping cart. Take advantage of these great deals and we’ll see you online!
This update to Fantasy Strike is live right now. Disastrous Matchmaking Problem — Now Fixed For the last year and half, an insidious matchmaking bug has killed our online population, and we have only recently discovered this and deployed a fix. The problem is that if you would be matched against certain kinds of bad connections, the match would not be made (that’s good, you wouldn’t want to mat…
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