Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls launched this week with 20 playable characters on the main roster (21 counting The Champion), but there’s of course plently more planned for the game moving forward.
PlayStation previously revealed Phoenix Cyclops as Marvel Tokon’s first DLC character, and now we can get a better idea as to when he and the rest of the first season’s fighters will join the game.
The official Steam page for Marvel Tokon’s Year 1 Characters and Stage Pass now includes release windows for the four upcoming roster additions plus the new stage.
Like we already knew, Phoenix Cyclops is set to join the Marvel heroes and villains sometime this Fall, but the pass details state that will be sometime between October and December this year.
The second unrevealed playable character unfortunately won’t be coming until early 2027, though, since they’re listed with a window of January to March.
Marvel Tokon’s first new stage is said to come after that between April and June, so it’ll be interesting to see what that is.
There shouldn’t be too much of a drought from the stage considering the third character is supposed to come in that timeframe as well.
And finally, the fourth Year 1 fighter should drop sometime between July and September 2027.
Considering there are only the four characters on the pass, some players were hopeful that could mean we’d receive them at a bit of a quicker pace, however, it seems they’ll be taking a page out of Street Fighter 6’s playbook and stretching them out over the full year.
That means we’ll likely see around a three-month gap in character releases moving forward, but hopefully Arc System Works and PlayStation are planning to add more updates and content like new costumes between them too.
How they handle content and balance updates for Marvel Tokon post-launch remains to be seen, so we should be learning about that more in the coming months too.
Marvel Tokon’s PC version is still facing significant PC issues despite the day one patch, which means there should at least be performance patches coming in the near future.
