Godzilla's 2002 Brawler Is Back, and It Just Topped Steam's Charts

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee was one of those GameCube-era games that people who had it still bring up unprompted twenty-plus years later — a goofy, destructible-city kaiju brawler where you could pick Godzilla, King Ghidorah, or Mothra and just wreck a miniature Tokyo. Pipeworks Studios and Atari just put a fully remastered version back on Steam, and as of this week it's sitting at the top of Steam's top-sellers chart.

What's actually new

The remaster rebuilds the 2002 original in Unreal Engine 5, which mostly means a cleaner UI, sharper kaiju models, and 8 arenas (real-world cities, Monster Island, and the alien Mothership) that now support weather and time-of-day changes. The roster is 12 kaiju, and local co-op plus online multiplayer are both in.

How it's actually landing with critics

Reviews are a solid "fun but familiar." Critics are giving it credit for faithfully preserving a licensed game that was genuinely hard to play legally before now, and for controls simple enough that non-fighting-game people can pick it up at a party. The flip side: there's barely any new content beyond engine and visual upgrades (no new monsters besides a Mechagodzilla swap), a locked gallery mode, and not much reason to keep playing once you've seen everything once. It's landing as a nostalgia trip more than a deep fighter.

• Developer: Pipeworks Studios
• Publisher: Atari
• Release date: November 3, 2026
• Price: $29.99 (Digital Deluxe Edition also available)
• Platforms: PC (Steam), PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2

Who it's for

This one's for anyone who grew up smashing buildings as Godzilla on a GameCube and wants that exact feeling back with better graphics — it's less of a sell if you're looking for a deep, long-term fighting game.