Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Clash

Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Clash is a fighting title jointly developed by Byking and Gemdrops, with Bandai Namco Entertainment handling publishing. Drawing from the 2020 anime adaptation of Gege Akutami's manga, the game launched in Japan on February 1, 2024, for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, and arrived globally the next day. Critical reception was broadly mixed to negative, with reviewers citing a weak story mode, a limited character selection, subpar netcode, and a disappointing cooperative mode.

The single-player story mode follows protagonist Yuji Itadori as he battles cursed monsters to protect humanity in modern Japan, adapting events from the anime's first season and the film Jujutsu Kaisen 0. The base game includes 16 playable characters, with players forming two-person teams to fight CPU opponents or others online. Additional characters have been released as paid and free downloadable content, along with two new story chapters based on the anime's second season.

Bandai Namco announced the game in July 2023 at Anime Expo.

On Metacritic, the game received mixed-to-negative scores, while OpenCritic reported weak approval, with only 11% of critics recommending it. Lewis Parker of Eurogamer called it "a product disguised as a game" and "the epitome of every pitfall the [arena fighter] genre consistently falls into," criticizing its shallow, unbalanced gameplay, poor visuals, pointless story mode, and terrible online experience. Jason Hon of Screen Rant gave it 2.5/5, faulting its "unbalanced, clunky, and frustrating" gameplay, a story mode consisting mainly of "image slideshows with uninspired voice acting," and the absence of local multiplayer.

Both reviewers agreed that despite some promising ideas and "well-constructed animations," Cursed Clash failed to realize the potential of a fighting game adaptation for such a popular series, with Parker arguing it was an obvious attempt to capitalize on the IP's popularity without delivering a quality gaming experience.