Street Fighter 6 is a 2023 fighting game developed and published by Capcom. It is the seventh main entry in the Street Fighter franchise, following Street Fighter V (2016), and was released worldwide on June 2, 2023, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S, while an arcade version, named Street Fighter 6 Type Arcade, was published by Taito for Japanese arcade cabinets in December. An updated version with post-launch content, Street Fighter 6 Years 1-2 Fighters Edition, was released on June 5, 2025, alongside a Nintendo Switch 2 version as a launch title and corresponding Amiibo for the game.
Developed on the RE Engine, Street Fighter 6 supports cross-platform play and rollback netcode. It offers three overarching game modes and three control options. The game features a real-time commentary system, providing a tournament-style feel and the option to cheer on the player. The game continues the "2.5D" style introduced in Street Fighter IV. Street Fighter 6 received critical acclaim for its open world, control options, characters, gameplay, graphics and voice acting, though its story received some minor criticism. As of June 2026, the game has sold over 7 million units worldwide.
Gameplay
Street Fighter 6 features similar 2D fighting gameplay to the previous games in the series, in which two fighters use a variety of attacks and special abilities to knock out their opponent. The main new gameplay addition of Street Fighter 6 is the Drive Gauge, a system designed to encourage player creativity. The gauge can be used for five different techniques, requiring players to choose which to prioritize. Most of the Drive Gauge's mechanics are based on previously existing mechanics from previous Street Fighter games, such as parries, focus attacks, and EX moves. Fully expending a character's Drive gauge makes them enter "Burnout" state, where the gauge slowly refills but cannot be used. While in this Burnout state, the character's blocking degrades, and they become susceptible to "chip damage" (taking a small amount of damage when blocking attacks) and can become stunned when hit by Drive Impact close to a corner.
The game features three control types: the "classic" control scheme, which is a six-button layout that functions similarly to previous games in the series; the "modern" control scheme, which is a simplified four-button layout that assigns special moves to a single button combined with a directional input; and the offline-only "dynamic" control scheme, in which the player need only press a single button for the game's AI to select an appropriate attack for that button press.
The use of multiple super combos returns from the Street Fighter Alpha sub-series, also counting the Ultra Combo W variant from Ultra Street Fighter IV. However, each characters' super combo arts are based on three respective level gauges. For example, Ryu's Shinku Hadoken, Shin Hashogeki and Shin Shoryuken can only be used at Level 1, 2 and 3 respectively. When a player is low on health, their Level 3 super move becomes a Critical Art, which is more powerful in addition to having an expanded cinematic scene. Certain movesets can only be cancelled to super moves based on how many levels the player has filled, such as EX/Overdrive special moves, which can only be cancelled to higher levels above Level 1, while regular special moves without sacrificing the Drive gauge can only be cancelled to Level 3. However, some characters' secondary Level 3 Super Art is exclusive to Critical state, such as Akuma's Shun Goku Satsu. An "extreme" battle type is also available for play, allowing players to compete in matches that feature special rules and gimmicks.
Street Fighter 6 features three overarching game modes: Fighting Ground, World Tour, and Battle Hub. Fighting Ground contains local and online versus battles as well as training and arcade modes. World Tour is a single-player story mode featuring a customizable player avatar exploring 3D environments, such as Final Fights Metro City and the small, fictional Central Asian nation of Nayshall, with action-adventure gameplay. Players can obtain cosmetic items, gain experience points, and customize their avatar's moves by training with the game's other characters. New content was added to World Tour mode with each new character update through the end of the third season, after which it was announced that the mode would not receive further updates. Battle Hub acts as an online lobby mode, using the customizable player avatars from the World Tour mode. In the Battle Hub, players can compete in ranked or casual matches, battle as their created avatars using the skills learned in World Tour mode, participate in special events, or play emulated Capcom arcade titles, using the same emulation technology used in the Capcom Arcade Stadium series, among other features. The game includes a new feature called "Game Face", in which a character can make different kinds of facial expressions while loading screens. An update in May 2026 added new avatar battle modes, allowing players to earn new avatar cosmetics and moves outside of World Tour mode. Players can earn cosmetic rewards from regular online fighting passes, including stickers, emotes, and avatar items.
A real-time commentary system is a new feature in Street Fighter 6, where English and/or Japanese commentators watch the action in real-time, giving it a more tournament-style feel, or allow the option to cheer the player on. Ten different commentators are featured, four play-by-play commentators and six color commentators; players can choose whether to enable color commentary. Ryutaro "Aru" Noda, Jeremy "Vicious" Lopez, Steve "TastySteve" Scott, and Kosuke Hiraiwa are the four play-by-play commentators, while Demon Kakka, Thea "Zelina Vega" Trinidad, James "jchensor" Chen, Hikaru Takahashi, Amaki Pururu and Tatsuya Haitani are the six color commentators.
Plot World Tour is set several years after the events of Street Fighter III and follows an original player-created avatar character, framed as a martial artist seeking to become stronger. The player begins training under Luke in Metro City, where they meet and bond with a fellow student, Bosch Waraya. While the player begins training for an upcoming fighting tournament under several different masters, they learn that Bosch is on the run from the Mad Gear gang for stealing money from them. The player catches up with Bosch, only for him to be abducted by Juri after giving a memory drive to the player. Working with Chun-Li's student Li-Fen, the player learns from the drive that Bosch stole the money for a resistance group fighting against Amnesia, a terrorist organization influencing Nayshall's government. While following clues sent to them by a member of the resistance, the player has repeated encounters with an unknown fighter who wears a cardboard box and wields Psycho Power. Upon learning from the resistance of the Suval'hal martial arts tournament in Nayshall, the player qualifies to participate as Metro City's representative.
During the tournament, the player again encounters the box-wearing fighter and knocks the box from his head, revealing him to be Bosch. Bosch explains that Amnesia was formed by former Shadaloo agents and has been using the tournament to launder money for terrorist activities; Bosch willingly allowed himself to be experimented on after his kidnapping, hoping Psycho Power would make him strong enough to assassinate Amnesia's leader, JP. Losing control of his mind and body, Bosch escapes, and resistance leader Kalima decides to eliminate both Bosch and JP using a bomb implanted in the championship belt. The player objects and attempts to disarm the bomb during the night, but is caught by JP, who orders them to leave. The next day, the player makes it to the tournament finals, where they fight against Bosch. Regardless of the outcome, JP, aware of the sabotage, activates the bomb trigger and has Bosch's sister Yua present the belt to the victor instead. To save her, Bosch snatches the belt moments before it explodes, killing him. The player defeats JP in retribution, mourning the loss of Bosch.
Some time later, the player encounters other Neo Shadaloo factions, including those who experimented on Bosch. An amnesiac figure resembling M. Bison finds this group and begins to unite them under his leadership. The player also encounters the extradimensional being Ingrid, who agrees to help them go back in time and avert Bosch's fate. As a result, the player alters the past to prevent Bosch's kidnapping and ensure his survival and victory in the Suval'hal tournament, at the cost of his shared history with the player.
Characters
The game was launched with a base roster of 18 characters, six of whom were new to the Street Fighter series. Several additional characters were later released as paid downloadable content via the game's season passes.
Two guest characters from SNK's Fatal Fury series, Terry Bogard and Mai Shiranui, were also added to the game in the second season pass, while the fourth season pass features Tifa Lockhart from Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII Remake series. This makes Street Fighter 6 the first mainline Street Fighter game to feature third-party guest characters.
Characters who are playable for the first time in a Street Fighter title are highlighted in bold. Guest characters are marked in italics.
Base roster
Season1 Rashid A.K.I. Ed Akuma
Season2 M. Bison Terry Mai Elena
Season3 Sagat C. Viper Alex Ingrid
Season4 Yasmine Arjun Tifa Bosch
Several newcomers were introduced to the series: A.K.I., an apprentice of F.A.N.G.'s who specializes in poison and snake kung fu. She was formerly known as Phantom. Prior to making her debut in the first season pass, she was first introduced as a cameo character in the Street Fighter V side reader chapter "Toxicity". Arjun Gummadi, an Indian ex-police detective on the run after being accused of murdering a colleague, Karna, during their secret investigations on a criminal conspiracy. He uses his extraordinary lung capacity, combined with yogic breathing, to unleash explosive power through his bare-knuckle yoga techniques, in additions to Bollywood elements, due to his past dream of becoming an actor. Introduced in the game's fourth season pass. Bosch Waraya, a Nayshall native and rookie fighter attempting to protect his home from JP's influence. He was first introduced in the game's World Tour mode as the player character's rival, later becoming playable as part of the game's fourth season pass. Jamie Siu, a Hong Kong Chinese drunken kung fu break dancer who is a rival of Luke since childhood, and idolizes the Lee brothers, Yun and Yang. JP, a Bartitsu fighter and the game's main antagonist. He is secretly a leader of a terrorist organization known as Amnesia, and was a former member of M. Bison's Shadaloo criminal organization. JP can utilize Psycho Power similar to Bison, and is the mastermind behind many of the game's events. Kimberly Jackson, an African American ninja and pupil of Guy investigating the death of her uncle. She is a self-proclaimed "Ninja Star" who fights with Bushin style Ninjutsu and has a love of 1980s music and graffiti. Lily Hawk, the youngest member of T. Hawk's Thunderfoot tribe who wields a pair of ball-headed war clubs known as "pogamoggans". Manon Legrand, an idealistic French ballerina, judoka champion, and celebrity who enters fighting tournaments to pursue true beauty through self-improvement. Marisa Rosetti, a giant muscular Italian jewelry designer and an MMA-pankratiast of Greek descent, whose medium-length red hair resembles a gladiator helmet. A bisexual woman, she seeks to marry a partner of equal strength.