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Besto Game Team has published a new character teaser trailer for Idol Showdown: Next Fes. It hints that the Japanese Vtuber Hakui Koyori will become a new playable character in the Hololive indie fighting game Idol Showdown.

The brief trailer shows how Koyori appears to remove Tokino Sora from the screen. She can make a plush of her mascot Kokoro cling to the opponent, which will then explode after a short while.

If Hakui Koyori does become a playable character in Idol Showdown, she will be the 12th Vtuber to receive the distinction. As of early February 2025, the game's playable roster comprises Shirakami Fubuki, Inugami Korone, Hoshimachi Suisei, Tokino Sora, Kureiji Ollie, Ninomae Ina'nis, Aki Rosenthal, Nakiri Ayame, Kiryu Coco, Shishiro Botan, and Usada Pekora.

While the game does feature many more Hololive and Holostars Vtubers from Cover's Hololive Production, not all are playable as some of them only appear as collab assists, enemy bosses, or NPCs. For example, when Besto Game Team revealed Ninomae Ina'nis, Ouro Kronii, and Machina x Flayon in April 2024, only Ina'nis appeared as a new playable character. Kronii and Flayon only appeared as enemy bosses, with the latter Holostars Vtuber piloting his mech R-TRUS.

The new teaser trailer is available to view via YouTube:

Besto Game Team has also been regularly updating Idol Showdown with bug fixes in the meantime. On February 16, 2025, it released a v4.3.25 hotfix that addressed a bug that caused an online session host to lag and cause a desync for other spectators.

Idol Showdown: Next Fes is available for free on PC via Steam.

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Besto Game Team added around 15 new Idol Showdown songs onto its OST playlist on YouTube. You can listen to all of them (including previous ones) online.

There are now a total of 50 Idol Showdown songs to listen to from the OST playlist. As of the time of writing, the new ones’ views range between the high 900s and almost 7000. “Wait, did this change?” is a track you can listen to in Mumei’s Shop and it has almost as many views as videos that Besto ed eight months ago.

Here are some of the tracks that Besto ed today:

• “Flayon X Showdown [Dead World]” (Gang City stage)
• “Next Fes [Shiny Smily Story]” (Main menu)
• “New School Euphoria” (Choco’s Tutorial stage)
• “Time of Death [Daydream]” (Beyond Time stage)
• “Violet Blossom [Kanalmi, Meconopsis]” (AquaMarine stage)

Idol Showdown is an indie fighting game that pits of Hololive and Holostars against each other. It is a fanmade game, but Holo Indie helped to publish it. The game came out in 2023 and so far has eleven playable characters. Besto recently added Ninomae In’anis as a playable character, as well as several bosses like Ouro Kronii and R-Trus.

Idol Showdown is readily available on the Windows PC.

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A new trailer for Idol Showdown has revealed that Ninomae Ina’nis, Machina x Flayon, and Ouro Kronii will appear as characters you can play as or fight against. They’ll appear in a new update, along with some other changes.

The trailer starts out with a rundown of what will be in the new patch. This includes new moves, as well as new mechanics like Jab Chains. Then, it moves on to the new characters. It shows Fubuzilla & Kurokami Fubuki, Ouro Kronii, and R-Trus (Machina x Flayon). These are new boss characters you can challenge. Ninomae Ina’nis, who gets her own trailer, will debut as a playable fighter in Idol Showdown.

You can watch both trailers here:

This new update will launch on May 5, 2024, which happens to be the one-year anniversary of the game’s release. All of the characters, like the other playable roster, are voiced by their actual VTubers.

Idol Showdown is a freeware fighting game focusing on VTubers from Hololive Production. While it’s a 1v1, you can also choose a secondary assist character to help you during battle. As of the time of writing, there are eleven playable characters, including Usada Pekora, Hoshimachi Suisei, and notably, Kiryu Coco, who is no longer a member of Hololive.

Idol Showdown is readily available on Windows PC. The new Idol Showdown update, which will introduce Ninomae Ina’nis as a playable character, will go live on May 5, 2024.

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Cover Corp. and Besto Game Team announced that Idol Showdown, the fan-made fighting game featuring Hololive Vtubers as playable characters, will the Holo Indie label. The team also shared a message concerning the future of the game and announced more news would arrive at EVO Japan later in 2024.

Despite the Holo Indie label allowing the creators of fan-games to profit from their work, Besto Game Team stated that Idol Showdown will "remain completely free and always will be." However, ing the label will allow the developers to work closer with Cover and Hololive itself. The new trailer also teases a new character coming to the game, with more details to be revealed during EVO Japan in April, 2024.

You can find the new Idol Showdown: Next Fes trailer, as well as a message from the developers, below:

Cover Corp, who own the Hololive agency, previously shared their goals for the Holo Indie initiative. It allows fan game developers to work with Cover and earn money from their projects. Meanwhile, fans of Hololive English vtubers FUWAMOCO from the Advent group have been swarming the Akihabara Mister Donut after the duo posted a photo of their visit to the establishment.

Idol Showdown is immediately available to play for free via Steam, now under the Holo Indie brand. More information about the Next Fes title update is due to appear at EVO Japan, which will take place over 27-29 April, 2024.

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Hololive fan-games appear to be having a moment right now. First, there's the surprisingly good survivors-like Holocure, and now a fighting game offering in Idol Showdown. This is to say nothing of the RPG's, flash games and platformers also coming out of the fan-game scene. Going into Idol Showdown, I was initially apprehensive. I have precious little experience with fighting games, but thankfully it does a decent job of acclimating newer players to the controls.

For the uninitiated, Idol Showdown is a free fan-made fighting game from Besto Game Team and starring VTubers from the Hololive agency. Everything from the moves to the characters and palette swaps are a reference to Hololive streams and in-jokes. When the fight is over, the screen zooms out to a very Youtube-like layout complete with a chatbox and faux-recommendations. Even the voice lines are clipped from the streamers themselves, although several of them have since provided voice lines for the developer to add into the game. There are eight playable characters taken from the agency's Japanese branch, though plenty of from the English and Indonesian speaking branches also make cameo. The developers also teased additional characters, such as Usada Pekora.

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The tutorial is the first stop for beginners like myself, and its a quick and robust affair that takes you through all the main mechanics in a few minutes. It does a good job of introducing basic move inputs and concepts like special meter (called the Superchat Meter in Idol Showdown). It doesn't go into detail about concepts like zoning and mix-ups or explain higher level tactics or overall strategy. Now, if you're serious about getting into fighting games, then any game tutorial will have to be supplemented with plenty of outside reading and video guides, but as an absolute beginner I would have appreciated a bit more guidance on "when" to use a move rather than just how."

On top of a tutorial, theres also the Virtual Frontier that tasks players from saving the CEO of Cover Corp (and frequent meme subject) Motoaki "Yagoo" Tanigo from a rampant computer virus. Though it's less a 'story' mode than a replayable gauntlet with stage modifiers and roguelite pickups, ives, and consumables. While Virtual Frontier mainly serves as a vehicle for yet more Hololive VTuber references, it also works well as a single-player activity for those who want to practice outside of training mode. After several runs fighting the same few Us, opponents can become a little tiresome, but that small roster can be a boon to beginners who don't need to learn as many match-ups. Additionally, a selection of items offered at the start of a run gives options for an easy combo mode, auto-blocks, or a hard mode to tailor it to your skill level, though even my fat-fingered button mashing was enough to make it through most fights without needing them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkcTeZyknQg&ab_channel=IdolShowdown%7CBestoGameTeam

Visually the game is impressively stylized. While there are a couple of moves that lack a bit of impact or are perhaps a bit unclear, generally the sprite work is top notch. Even some of the more out-there attacks, like Coco's raptor-riding grab, communicate what's happening pretty clearly. The voice lines, scraped from streams with various game effects and background going on, feel pretty clean and give good audio . While the offers from the streamers themselves to record lines must be edifying, they almost aren't necessary.

The only really noticeable glitches I found were in the move list menu, when the blur frames of a jumping attack begin to stick around at one point, and the animations for the assist character displayed Miko no matter who I had actually selected. But otherwise, the game ran smoothly at 60 fps and I experienced no crashes. The largest problem I had overall was not being able to set controls to display my preferred controller buttons, which made learning the inputs slightly more challenging. In the long run, learning the more universal symbols can only be useful but in the moment it was an slight barrier to getting used to the controls.

Being a free game with a small roster and beginner-friendly slant, I can see Idol Showdown being a great entry point into fighting games for Hololive VTuber fans. If fighting game veterans, attracted by the allure of rollback netcode, end up endeared to the characters, then the game could serve as a nice gateway between the two communities. Those outside those camps may find its appeal limited, but such is the nature of games targeted at such a specific crossover of audiences. Despite that, Idol Showdown is a worthy addition to the growing list of Hololive fan-games that stand on their own merits.

Idol Showdown is immediately available for free on PC via Steam.

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The Idol Showdown fan-made Hololive fighting game is out now, and it turns out more VTubers will eventually its cast. To coincide with its debut, a launch trailer appeared. It noted that while there are only eight playable characters now, eventually there will be 11. It also seems the next fighter will be Streams Charts' most-watched female streamer of 2023 so far, VTuber Usada Pekora.

Here's the launch trailer for Idol Showdown, which begins with gameplay footage of the Hololive fighting game. We first see already revealed cast like Aki Rosenthal, Hoshimachi Suisei, Inugami Korone, and Tokino Sora. We also get to see the cameos of other VTubers who show up in ing roles, like Kureiji Ollie and Nanashi Mumei. You also have “Star Call-in” and “Off-Collab” cameos from other , like Houshou Marine.

It’s at the 12 second mark that the additional fighters are first teased. In the character select diamond, there are three spaces with question marks. Then, at the one minute mark, a blue bomb with carrot markings drops referencing the VTuber Usada Pekora. Once it explodes, the three more slots appear and the banner states, “Future free content in development.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkcTeZyknQg&ab_channel=IdolShowdown%7CBestoGameTeam

Idol Showdown is available for free for PCs via Steam.

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The indie Hololive fighting game got a Spring 2023 release window back in March 2023, and now that's been pinned down. Besto Game Team announced the Idol Showdown PC release date. It will show up on May 5, 2023 on Steam. The developer also revealed the final playable character will be Kiryu Coco and shared a trailer for her.

Here's the Kiryu Coco trailer, which also shared the release date. As a reminder, Coco isn’t an active member of Hololive. She graduated back in July 2021.

Character Debut Trailer: Kiryu Coco / 桐生ココ

Coco soars her way into Idol Showdown!
会長がIdol Showdownに飛び込む！ #みかじ絵 #IdolShowdown #hololive #ホロライブ #indiedev #fgc pic.twitter.com/2RIqYVQlsJ

— Idol Showdown: Hololive Fighting Game!  (@IdolShowdown) April 23, 2023

Here are all of the Hololive VTubers who will appear as playable characters in this fighting game.

• Aki Rosenthal
• Hoshimachi Suisei
• Inugami Korone
• Kiryu Coco
• Nakiri Ayame
• Shirakami Fubuki
• Shishiro Botan
• Tokino Sora

The developer didn’t share a closer look at Coco’s unique stage yet. However, over the weekend it did show off the Aki stage Midnight Rose.

Stage Showcase: Midnight Rose

"A haven for the loyal Rosetai, where drinks flow freely and the atmosphere is always warm and jovial."#IdolShowdown #アロ絵 #hololive pic.twitter.com/8Y0OnqjyCY

— Idol Showdown: Hololive Fighting Game!  (@IdolShowdown) April 22, 2023

The Idol Showdown release date is May 5, 2023. It will be a free game for PCs.

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Besto Games revealed a release window and new details about Idol Showdown, its fighting game starring Hololive Vtubers. The title will debut in Spring 2023. It will be a free game available through Steam, according to the new trailer. It will also be entirely free and feature eight playable characters.

At the moment, only part of the Idol Showdown Hololive fighting game’s cast of playable Vtubers is available. The trailer shows off Inugami Korone, Nakiri Ayame, Shirakami Fubuki, and Tokino Sora. A-chan does make a cameo, however, as she appears for one of Sora’s attacks. The other four are still a mystery, and there are no details as to their identities yet.

Here’s the first trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChT2Cdveii0&ab_channel=IdolShowdown%7CBestoGameTeam

The Twitter announcements also revealed more details about its development. Besto worked on the title for over two years now. It will also use rollback netcode.

It isn't uncommon for fans to make free games inspired by Hololive Vtubers. For example, one of the more notable titles is Holocure. It is a Vampire Survivors-like that involves various performers. It also gets regularly updates. For example, in February 2023 that game was updated to add more first and second generation characters from the Japanese branch of the company.

Idol Showdown will appear on PCs in Spring 2023.

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