Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a crossover fighting game for the Nintendo Switch and the fifth main entry in the series. It features every playable fighter from previous installments alongside new additions…

87 7 December 2018

Fighting Platform Action Fantasy Party Science fiction

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a fighting developed by Bandai Namco Studios, released 7 December 2018 on Nintendo Switch. The main story takes about 100 hrs to finish.

Verified 15 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a fighting game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and released in 2018. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a 2018 crossover fighting game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the fifth installment in the Super Smash Bros. series, succeeding Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U (2014). The game follows the series' traditional style of gameplay, in which players control one of the various characters and use attacks to weaken their opponents and knock them out of an arena. It features a wide variety of game modes, including a single-player campaign and multiplayer versus modes. Ultimate features 74 playable fighters, including all characters from previous Super Smash Bros. games as well as…

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, party and science fiction. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 8 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the 331st of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sega Classics for Amazon Fire TV in 2018. Its critic score of 87 is 16 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.

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How it was received

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 87, across 966 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 100 hrs.

What it launched against

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate launched on 7 December 2018, within three weeks of Gris, Battlefield V, Dusk and Ashen. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Gris, Battlefield V, Dusk, Ashen.

Cheats and codes

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