Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, the tag-team fighter from Arc System Works and Sony Interactive Entertainment, is set to launch on August 6, 2026 for PlayStation 5 and PC. On PC, though, the game will not be purchasable in 132 countries. The restriction shows up in Steam’s backend metadata across every edition of the game, and the affected regions match the places where PlayStation Network is not officially supported.
Quick answer: If you live in one of the 132 listed countries, the Standard, Deluxe, and Ultimate PC editions won’t be available to buy on Steam or the Epic Games Store, because the game requires a linked PlayStation Network account and PSN isn’t offered in your region. Sony has not confirmed the policy, so it could still change before launch.
What is blocked and where you can still buy it
The block applies to the PC version only. On PlayStation 5, the game launches globally with no country restriction. On PC, the notice attached to the game’s storefront entries reads “Not in 132 countries,” and it covers all three retail editions rather than a single tier.
Players inside an affected region also report an error when opening the store page, so the listing may not even appear as available to purchase. Both the Steam page and an Epic Games Store page are already live for supported countries.
Note: A handful of countries, including Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam, are listed without a set price. Their availability is unclear rather than confirmed as open.
Why the PSN account requirement triggers the block
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls requires you to link a PlayStation Network account to play on PC. PSN online services only operate in a fraction of the countries where Steam and the Epic Games Store sell games. In any country where you cannot sign up for PSN, Sony has chosen to block the purchase outright rather than let players buy a game they can’t fully use.
The most likely driver is crossplay. The game supports cross-platform play between PS5 and PC at launch, and the PSN link is what ties a PC account into that system. That reasoning is not airtight, since PC players could simply choose not to enable crossplay, but the account requirement is applied at the store level regardless.
Sony has not published an official explanation on the store page or issued a statement. Arc System Works has also stayed silent so far.
Countries where the PC version is blocked
The full list covers 129 named territories plus three unrecognized country codes (AN, FX, and XD). The named regions are below.
- Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan
- Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi
- Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, Côte d’Ivoire
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic
- Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia
- Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana
- Haiti, Holy See (Vatican City State), Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan
- Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania
- Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar
- Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, North Macedonia
- Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, State of Palestine, Sudan, Suriname, Syria
- Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu
- Uganda, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Why a VPN won’t fix it
A VPN is not a reliable way around the restriction. If your Steam account is registered in an unsupported country, the game won’t show as available to purchase in the first place, so masking your connection doesn’t unlock the store entry. Using a VPN to buy region-locked content also violates Steam’s terms of service and can result in the account being banned. There is no confirmed workaround for players in the blocked regions.
This is the same pattern as Helldivers 2
The exact same 132-country set was previously blocked on Steam for Helldivers 2. That game added a mandatory PSN account link for PC players in 2024, which locked out well over a hundred countries without PSN access. The response was severe, with a wave of refunds and negative reviews, and Sony eventually reversed the requirement and restored access across roughly 177 territories.
After that reversal, several PlayStation-published PC ports shipped without the mandatory PSN link. Applying it again to Marvel Tōkon suggests Sony still enforces the requirement on titles it treats as primarily online, even though the game includes offline modes and a lengthy comic-style story mode alongside its multiplayer.
What happens before the August 6 launch
Because Sony hasn’t officially confirmed the block, the situation could still shift before release. Two outcomes are possible right now. Sony could quietly lift the restriction closer to launch, as it did after the Helldivers 2 backlash, or the block could remain and the metadata could simply be describing the launch-day state.
There is still a testing window ahead of release. A closed beta for Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is planned on PS5 and PC from July 24 to July 26, giving players another checkpoint to see whether the regional situation changes. The full roster is already known, including the Samurai Outriders group of Ghost Rider, Blade, Loki, and Deadpool.
For now, if you are in one of the 132 listed countries and want to play at launch, the PS5 version is the only confirmed route, since it carries no equivalent purchase restriction. On PC, the block stands unless Sony reverses course.
