Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls has launched to a rocky reception on PC, where many players are experiencing stutters and frame drops severe enough to make the game feel borderline unplayable. The Windows version's Steam reviews sit at a dismal 40% approval, with most negative reviews pointing to these technical problems.
In response, players have turned to a range of unconventional and unconfirmed fixes. One widely shared suggestion involves leaving the Epic Games Store running in the background even while playing through Steam, since Marvel Tokon runs on Unreal Engine 5 and communicates with Epic's backend services. Reports on this fix are mixed: some players say it noticeably improves performance, while others say it does nothing, and even a reporter who tested it couldn't confidently attribute improvements to the trick itself rather than other factors like repeated relaunches. Other suggested workarounds include using the RivaTuner Statistics Server to cap the framerate at exactly 59.9 frames per second, using the game's "Set Graphics Automatically" option, and manually reloading shaders.
Compounding the issue, even players who get the game running well on their own systems aren't guaranteed a smooth experience, since technical problems on an opponent's end can cause stuttering to worsen on their opponent's side too — a quirk of fighting-game netcode known as "one-sided rollback."
The fallout has been significant within the fighting game community. Streamer Maximilian Dood, known for his history with Marvel vs. Capcom titles, uninstalled the PC version of Marvel Tokon mid-stream in order to switch to playing on PS5. The online tournament series Tampa Never Sleeps has banned Windows PC players from competing in its brackets for the game, and some PS5 players have reportedly disabled crossplay entirely to avoid encountering PC-related performance issues.
Beyond the PC-specific problems, reception to the game itself has been mixed across platforms. Players have praised the game's visuals and varied character playstyles, but some have criticized slow central movement, combos, and hitboxes. The game currently launched with a roster of 20 playable characters, with additional fighters — starting with a Phoenix version of Cyclops — planned as post-launch downloadable content.