Mortal Kombat 1 cover art

Mortal Kombat 1

2023 · NetherRealm Studios · ~22h to finish

Individually the easiest execution in the genre and the most reading: strings are simple, but every one of them is a decision about whether the assist you also picked is available.

fightingpvpPCPlayStation 5Xbox SeriesNintendo SwitchMetacritic 82
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty5.2STEEP

Real resistance. Expect to work for it.

Price on Steam

$49.99

USD · United States · checked 2h ago

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Reaction
6.2
Execution
5.1
Learning Curve
5.0
Grind
4.9
Strategy
4.6
Obscurity
4.4
Punishment
2.5
Puzzle
0.4
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Execution drops 1.3 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Learning Curve drops 1.2 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 4.4 points off, if you use them.

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Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 30% · ~12hLearning Curve

    the second character you did not realise you also had to learn

    33
  2. 50% · ~30hReaction

    the defensive option the whole cast is balanced around

    14

Assists & accessibility

0/5 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Practice / training mode [unsourced]Practice with frame data, hitboxes and input history.
  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]CPU difficulty from Very Easy upward across offline modes.

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

GUIDANCE

  • Replayable tutorials & glossary [unsourced]A long structured tutorial plus per-character combo trials, all repeatable.

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

A 2D fighter with dial-a-combo strings and a second, partner character called a Kameo who you call in mid-string, so every matchup is a pair against a pair.

Where to go from here

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