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Pick a hololive talent and battle in a 2D fighter with flashy combos, assist characters, solo modes, and online or local matches.
Released 05 May 2023
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Made by hololive fans, for hololive fans. Idol Showdown is the definitive fan-made hololive fighting game experience, powered by rollback netcode. Engage in exciting duels as your favorite hololive talent and prove once and for all who the strongest idol is using the game’s easy-to-learn controls.
Developed by Besto Game Team · Published by holo Indie
Themes from a helpfulness-selected sample of Steam reviews, not the aggregate Steam score.
Idol Showdown is a fan-made 2D fighting game featuring hololive talents as playable fighters. Each has a distinct style and moves inspired by their personality and memorable moments, with battles set across recreated hololive locations.
Fight using simplified inputs, combos, assists, parries, bursts, and character-specific abilities. Matches can be played against the CPU or other players locally and online, with rollback netcode for online duels.
Beyond versus matches, Arcade mode offers a series of fights, while the Virtual Frontier roguelite campaign lets players build up their fighter over successive battles. The game also includes a two-player volleyball mode and unlockable cosmetics.
Players often enjoy the approachable controls and combo play, finding the fighting engaging both with friends and in solo modes. Reviews also praise the character-specific details, hololive references, art, and music; some note that online opponents can be hard to find, while balance and controls draw criticism from others.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Players | 1–2 |
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| Multiplayer | Idol Showdown supports single-player and multiplayer. Official features list Online PvP and Shared/Split Screen PvP, indicating online versus play and local versus play. Store text and reviews consistently mention rollback netcode, private/custom lobbies or direct code-based connections, and local multiplayer. Reviews indicate online matchmaking is limited or absent in some versions, with online play focused on direct friend matches and lobbies. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No multiplayer mod support or multiplayer-specific mod behavior is described in the provided information. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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