

Reception ĭNF Duel received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Patch 1.04 was announced on 18 August, which includes several balance changes and bug fixes. A beta was held from 17 December through 20 December 2021 with 10 playable characters and a second, last beta from 1 April to 4 April 2022, with 11 characters. The game was first announced at Dungeon & Fighter Universe Festival on 26 December 2020, with a teaser trailer. Each arms with their own "Wills", the special power that hides its true potential has recently awakened the Wonders once again, and upholds the future fates of both gates and multiverse. Moving forward to the present day, the fates of several adventures and warriors begin to converge in the Principality of Bel Myre. Suddenly, the gates malfunctions and ultimately shuts down altogether, in an event known as "The Day the Doors Closed", and as their powers faded into myth the gates became known as "Wonders". Each gates connects to other places in time and space exist, allowing its inhabitants to cross to other dimensions at will. The story of DNF Duel is set in an astral plane full of gates, one of many alternate realities created in the aftermath of the destructive event known as the Great Metastasis. ^ Final Boss unlockable through completing Story Mode on one character.In December 2022, its first downloadable content character, Spectre, was announced alongside a season pass with four additional DLC fighters.

The base roster includes 15 playable characters with 1 additional character being unlockable through gameplay directly coming from the main series. Though the bar disappears after each use of a skill, it slowly regenerates over time, unlike the use of special meters found in other fighting games. One big difference in this game is the use of an MP bar that is used to activate certain attacks, called "skills" in the game, similar to the main series games and other RPGs.

Like some previous games, the game features simplified inputs to allow new players to be able to get into the game without being put off by complicated controls. Gameplay is similar to other fighting games developed by Arc System Works but with more simplified mechanics.

A Nintendo Switch port is scheduled for an April 2023 release. It is a spin-off of the Dungeon & Fighter series and it was released for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 on 28 June 2022. DNF Duel is a fighting video game co-developed by Arc System Works, Eighting and Neople, and published by Nexon.
