The King of Fighters XIV

Game visuals have evolved into 3D graphics, however "KOF XIV" keeps the classic 2D gameplay and "3-on-3 TEAM BATTLE" game system that has made the series such a big success over the years. The first chapter of…

80 23 August 2016

Fighting Action

The King of Fighters XIV is a fighting developed by SNK, released 23 August 2016 on PlayStation 4, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 16 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What The King of Fighters XIV is

The King of Fighters XIV is a fighting game developed by SNK and released in 2016. It was published by Atlus USA. It is available on PlayStation 4, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Taito Type X.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The King of Fighters XIV takes place four years after the 2010 events of The King of Fighters XIII. A Russian billionaire named Antonov buys the rights to the King of Fighters competitions to host a new tournament in which veterans and newcomers compete. Following the competition, the chosen faces Antonov. In the aftermath, the winning team must confront a strange, threatening entity named Verse. This anomaly attracts characters from other dimensions, timelines and universes. Following Verse's defeat, some characters take missions to confront people revived through this mysterious enemy.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the The King of Fighters series

The King of Fighters XIV is the 45th of 71 entries we hold in the The King of Fighters series. It arrived 2 years after The King of Fighters-A 2012. The next entry was The King of Fighters XIV: Burn to Fight Premium Edition in 2016. Its critic score of 80 is 10 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 at 90.

See all 71 The King of Fighters games in release order →

How it was received

The King of Fighters XIV holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The King of Fighters XIV launched on 23 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.

Cheats and codes

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