THE KING OF FIGHTERS AFK – Netmarble Corporation

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THE KING OF FIGHTERS AFK – Casual Game Review

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THE KING OF FIGHTERS AFK is a Casual/Roleplaying game from Netmarble Corporation, first launched in 4th September 2025.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 2,145+ ratings on the App Store.

What Makes THE KING OF FIGHTERS AFK Stand Out

Get 3,000 Draws, 210,000 Rubies, and 1 Legendary Fighter!

The legendary fighting game The King of Fighters returns!
Play now and battle to become the best fighter in the world!

▶ The action-packed series KOF has been reimagined as an idle game!
KOF is back with a retro look and feel!
Power up your pixel fighters and beat your opponents!

▶ Infinite power! Infinite fun! Power up with one tap!
No more tedious grinding! Tap once to boost your Combat Power!
Welcome to the world of quick & easy power-ups!

▶ KOF enhanced! Duke it out in big 5 vs. 5 fights!
The fight is now on a bigger scale! Emerge victorious in exciting 5 vs. 5 team battles.
Bigger moments and even bigger fights await!

▶ Strategize to become the King of Fighters!
Adapt to each fight with different placements and combinations!
Form the ultimate team and make your way to the top!

▶ You are the hero in THE KING OF FIGHTERS AFK!
Join forces with other Fighters and stop the factions trying to ruin the tournament!
Set off on a journey to become the champion of KOF!

▶ Tons of events, tons of rewards!
Join them all and quickly power up!
Get rewards just by logging in, and use them to make the strongest team of fighters in the tournament!

Get the latest news and learn more on the official community pages!

Specifications

  • Minimum specifications: iOS 15.0 or higher, iPhone 7, 2GB RAM

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This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.

Player Feedback

As a newer release, THE KING OF FIGHTERS AFK is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .

Recent Updates & Development

Latest Update: 23rd December 2025

Recent improvements include:

  1. New Legendary Fighter Update!

    • Mukai

  2. Content expansions

    • Level caps increased for Stages, Power-Up Dungeons, Influence, and other content types.

Download & Availability

THE KING OF FIGHTERS AFK is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.

Get THE KING OF FIGHTERS AFK on App Store

Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.

Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.

Player Experience Highlights

Community Insight:

Ive been playing for months now and we really like logging on everyday and playing and collecting rewards worth a play.

We have no clue what causes it but occasionally our game would freeze requiring us to restart the app (playing on iPhone 15 pro max). Other than that we love this little pocket game. F2P FRIENDLY (Very Rare Nowadays!), unless chasing top placement on leaderboard! Also is people not realizing what a AFK game means? Play for a few, take a break or sleep or live life, then return back and check back up on things. At the end of the day its a pocket game at the end of the day.

We never write reviews for apps, but when it comes to this one we had to. It's fun and engaging. It has us hooked since day 1. Worth a try.

We like this game as a KOF fan we like how this game is made with the RPG.

The game is fun but we miss metal slug attack.

Ive been a day 1 player. So far, this game doesnt disappoint. Even tho a gacha game, they do a bring good job balancing and staying true to characters. You can be fully involved in the game w/o $$$, but support the devs pick up a $.99 or a boost because this is a quality game. We dont have really any cons to this game. As normal, if you want to be high on the leaderboards, its gonna cost you. But if you want to just enjoy the game you can do that with little to no money.

Ive been playing this game since launch because the pixel art really drew us to the game. Im not too familiar with KOF but we are really enjoying this game! Our biggest complaint is that its very difficult to evolve our Legendary units and Pets; you were to implement a way to make this more F2P then it would be a perfect game imo.

This game is very fun and addictive. Very unique with the old school vibes with pixel characters. We just honestly love it and we hope every one sees this and downloads it. Just give it a chance.

Please fix this issues unable to complete daily tasks due to the game not responding every time we try to pleat rank or league matches.

Its an auto battler with king of fighter characters. Doesnt really do anything new but if you like SNK characters you may get some enjoyment out of this.

Only Donat in the game will allow you to move quickly and unhindered through the endless plot. We don't say anything about the leaderboards at all, you can't get into the top with good rewards without a donation.

Love this game because everyone looks so tiny and cute and the art is cute but we hope Ash is eventually added to the game :3 we know its still new but pleaseplease add ash soon.

This game had great potential to be a great AFK title but it throws way too many systems at be players. The game is overwhelming for no reason. Youd think this game had excited for at least 3 years with so many systems arbitrarily thrown in. Also it requires you to be logged into the game way too often to get rewards. You have to constantly be clicking on objectives to get stage rewards instead of it automatically compiling. The stages also are very repetitive; we havent hit a wall yet despite being on stage 3000. Its ok to let players stall a little bit.

Good mechanics and characters also funny sounds.

Primer juego de este tipo que us gusta.

Overall this is a pretty generic AFK game. Its nothing too special gameplay wise, but as a KOF fan we really enjoy all the character artwork included. If we had one request, we would ask that more photo cards with different characters be added. It seems like its only the same few (already popular) characters that had photo cards, which doesnt leave much variety for those of us who prefer less popular characters.

It was fun before stage 3000.. And then you are required to watch the fights for that clear 5 stages thingalso why players can join the training ground without paying fees? And we cannot get them out even after they already maxed in the training? Is it like a bully system ?please fix this. Thank you.

So we were super excited for this when we first heard about it, then we forgot it was even a thing because of how long it took to come out. So finally getting into it, everything was basically handed to you on a silver platter and thats fine, plus the no ads for a week was really great, but other than that, not a lot to really look forward to. With a game that plays itself and all you have to do is CONSTANTLY tap the objective button, thats not fun. Beat 3 enemies (auto progresses) beat lvl 130 (auto progresses) summon characters (doesnt auto progress even after summoning 100 times in a row not too long ago) Its really just so annoying having to tap that and see that nothing is gonna change for that.

Totally a pay to win game, dont ever play this greedy game.

Waited for this One was kinda excited, Expectations were valued high for us finally released, action non stop fun but slot levels are boring lvls are dull and boss fights are not epic sorry but not that entwined by its pixel art foescop ways still we play it thanks again Collin and coplin should have put more time sense you guys were doing this for fun at home guess Ill wait till next bad squeal, Guy from LA much love.

Nice to see a KOF pixel style RPG! Overall it's not bad, but there are still a few things that the production team should focus on: 1. There are just too many micro-paid ads, please focus on the user experience, the traces of P2W are too obvious now. 2The equipment bar on the main game screen takes up too much space, please leave more space for the battle screen. 3, some content is really far-fetched, like planting flowers and other worthless, rather than designing a ring tournament to earn money to dress up the home, does not need any content is to increase the power of the battle. 4, since it is a KOF game, still hope that there will be manual combat opportunities, can be made into a PVP part, control pixel characters fighting must be very interesting. We hope this game can become a representative work of KOF mobile game, thanks to the production team.

Fun little mobile for short burst, really nothing to offer for the folks who really dont care much for the King of Fighter series. Dont spend a penny though this game wont be around long.

We like it just started playin.we pulled king.they LOST our acct we were only three days in maybe.

We find this game to be very fast paced and flashy. The retro style is awesome as well! We find the interface to be easier on the eyes compared to other AFK games and we enjoy watching our favorite characters play together as a team. The coordination rocks in this game. We are hoping to unlock all our favorites (we need Vanessa to complete that! ) Out of the other KOF mobile games, we personally find this to be a keeper because we dont feel overwhelmed with all the options and offers and modes in the game. We dont feel overwhelmed playing this. Fast paced and great for short bursts as well. We hope this game can last a long time because it is strong in the AFK nature and in its style. Great work for Netmarble on this one! Ora oraaa.

It wont let us update our ride level. It says we need like 25k but we have over 50k yet when we go to level up it says we have only 15k. We have lucky ride on auto but the 15k wont change at all. Would really like to be able to level up and get better equipment. Still a fun game overall. Edit: Itd probably help if we pressed the sort button to recieve the medals. Lol. All good here. Fun game.

Im looking forward to the flourishing gameplay.

Been a fan since the 90s and this little idle fighter doesnt dissapoint! Easy to play while working and awesome pre registration awards, Looking forward for future content! KOF lives on.

Excited to play, so far so good.

Dont know if hell be added later.

Overall we knew it was an auto play game but it seems like very pay to win off the bat and needs a lot of game time to get past pay walls. All in all pretty annoying and boring.

The game is fun, easy to understand, easy to play and lets you afk for a bunch of good rewards but the thing is it doesnt really stick out only the high ranking characters you summon are from a KOF game the rest are either AI generated (yuck) or semi cool looking like the wood guys and the jesters, Id boost this game probably to a 7.9 if they add more characters that are interesting and maybe get rid of the random AI generated construction workers that add nothing but filler to the roster.

The main reason we play KOF games is for two characters only Athena and Kula Diamond, but to our shock there is two Athenas in the game which we truly appreciate BUT WHERE IS KULA? If Im not wrong Kula has been in almost every game! And shes very very well known as the ice character for KOF Im truly upset that she isnt here being one of our favorites.

Slightly disappointed very basic graphics all auto game play was expecting something similar to 7DS nothing innovative here.
User feedback from Apple App Store

App Details

  • Version: 1.4.1
  • Size: 755.83 MB
  • iOS: 15.0 or later
  • Languages: EN, FR, DE, ID, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES, TH, ZH
  • Content Advisory: Loot Boxes, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
  • Developer: Netmarble Corporation

Last updated: 23rd December 2025 | Genre: Casual, Roleplaying | Developer: Netmarble Corporation

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