Arcade
Killer Instinct PC ports
2 fan projects bring Killer Instinct to PC: all of them recomps. 0 of them are playable now. Each one needs game files from a copy you own.
Updated
The ports, side by side
| Project | Method | Status | Systems | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ki-recomp | Recomp | Beta | macOS | v0.1.0 Oct 2026 |
| UltraCombo | Recomp | Beta | Windows, Linux | v1.1.0 Oct 2026 |
None of these ports is marked playable yet. Each port's page has its setup steps. Decomp vs recomp explains how the methods differ.
About Killer Instinct
Killer Instinct is a fighting game developed by Rare and published by Midway and Nintendo. It was released as an arcade game in the fall of 1994 and, the following year, ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and the Game Boy. The game's plot involves an all-powerful corporation organising a fighting tournament. The story was adapted in a limited comic book series published under the short-lived Acclaim Comics imprint. Killer Instinct features several gameplay elements unique to fighting games of the time. Instead of fighting enemies in best-of-three rounds bouts, each player has two life bars. The player that depletes the other player's life bars first wins the match. The game also introduced "auto-doubles", a feature which allows players to press a certain sequence of buttons to make characters automatically perform combos on opponents. Also featured in the game are "combo breakers", special defensive moves that can interrupt combos.
- Released
- 28 Oct 1994
- Genre
- Fighting
- Developer
- Rare
- Publisher
- Midway
Summary and details from IGDB ↗. They describe the original game.