Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker

I've spent enough time with anime-licensed brawlers to know when one is coasting on IP alone and when it's genuinely doing something structurally different. Shinobi Striker falls into the second category, at least in its core concept. Rather than another 1v1 fighting game or a story-mode retread, Soleil built a 4v4 team-based action game where wall-running, chakra jumps across entire maps, and mid-air jutsu exchanges are the main event. The movement alone sets it apart: you cling to vertical surfaces, grab ledges with kunai, and launch yourself across arenas with a momentum that makes most of the actual fighting feel genuinely fast and physical. The class system is where the game asks you to think beyond button mashing. You pick from four roles: Attack, Ranged, Defense, and Heal. Each has its own jutsu pool and weapon loadout, and you can swap class every time you respawn to serve whatever your team needs in that moment. On top of that, the master-training system lets you apprentice under iconic series characters like Kakashi or Naruto, grinding missions to unlock their specific moves and cosmetic gear. Build variety is real and grows meaningfully over time. The progression loop of unlocking jutsu, tweaking your loadout, and testing it in the Ninja World League ranked mode is genuinely satisfying once you have enough tools to actually express a playstyle. The problems are real and worth front-loading: matchmaking throws veterans and newcomers together with little concern for skill gap, the camera regularly loses track of you in close-quarters fights, and the DLC season pass puts some of the most powerful master skills behind an additional spend. Early on, the game feels less like a skill curve and more like a wall. PvE through the VR Missions offers a useful pressure-relief valve where you can practice against bosses, waves of enemies, and scripted scenarios solo or with friends, but that content runs thin faster than the multiplayer, and mission repetition sets in quickly. Steam players have kept the rating at 84 percent positive across a very large review pool, which tells a specific story: the audience that stuck with this game long enough to unlock deeper builds is genuinely fond of it. That skews the score toward the committed. Casual or genre-curious players who bounce off the rough matchmaking will likely land somewhere less enthusiastic. The anime presentation is convincing throughout, with a cel-shaded look and authentic voice work that makes the arenas feel like they belong in the show. If you grew up watching Naruto and want to actually run across rooftops throwing fireballs with three friends, this game executes that specific fantasy competently.

Alex · Scout Team

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