Did DNF Duel flop?
With a massively popular IP such as this and one of the top fighting game developers working on the project, DNF Duel was shaping up to be a massive success. Instead, the game failed to garner much attention upon launch, and player numbers plummeted. So what happened and how did the game become a flop so quickly? I found DNF Duel to be enjoyable overall, but this cool, high-energy anime fighter with great characters and an appealing style is hampered by a lack of depth, low online playerbase, and the Switch’s hardware.With a massively popular IP such as this and one of the top fighting game developers working on the project, DNF Duel was shaping up to be a massive success. Instead, the game failed to garner much attention upon launch, and player numbers plummeted.DNF Duel is a fighting video game co-developed by Arc System Works, Eighting and Neople, and published by Nexon. It is a spin-off of the Dungeon & Fighter series and was released for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 on 28 June 2022.Unfortunately, the DNF Duel Story Mode is fairly dull even by fighting game standards. All of the 15 starting characters have a series of visual novel-like vignettes during which almost nothing interesting happens before they are forced into fighting someone else for the thinnest possible reasons.
What game is DNF Duel based on?
DNF Duel is a fighting game for the Nintendo Switch published by Arc System Works in 2023. It is based off the South Korean MMO, Dungeon Fighter Online. Dungeon & Fighter, sometimes abbreviated to DNF, is a series of video games created by Neople, a subsidiary of Nexon. While early games were only developed and published by Neople, Nexon began to publish other entries in the series as well as outsource the development to other companies.