He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction is a retro pixel-art co-op brawler from Bitmap Bureau, out 2026 on all major platforms.
Acts of Blood, Eksil Team's self-published PC beat 'em up set in dystopian Bandung, delivers fast brutal hand-to-hand combat — review score 6/10.
Streets of Rage 4 revives Sega's beat 'em up with hand-drawn art, four-player co-op and a health trade that rewires every fight.
Absolum review: Dotemu's beat 'em up with roguelike rituals, four fighters, and a sharp deflect mechanic scores 9/10 on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC.
Hellboy: Web of Wyrd review: Upstream Arcade's roguelite brawler nails the Butterfly House premise but lands a thin 5.5/10.
A review of TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled, Ubisoft's 2009 remake of the Konami arcade classic, and how an expired license erased it.
Final Fight 2 hit the SNES in 1993 with no arcade version, adding co-op play and Maki Genryusai. A competent but safe sequel that repeats the original.
Final Fight hit arcades in 1989 and sold 1.5 million Super NES cartridges. A look at Capcom's brawler, its three fighters and its six rounds.
Kung Fu on NES is a port of a port from arcade Spartan X. Here's what the thin record actually supports about the 1985 side-scroller.
Konami's NES port of TMNT II: The Arcade Game adds two new levels and bosses Tora and Shogun, plus a Baxter Stockman swap. Review score: 7.5/10.
A review of Konami's 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat 'em up: four turtle campaigns, a deep versus roster, and a thin adaptation of season one.
River City Ransom hit the NES in 1989 and still stands as the strangest, funniest beat 'em up on the console — fists, noodle shops and all.
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