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Kirby Air Riders
Kirby Air Riders is a 2025 Nintendo Switch 2 vehicle action game directed by Masahiro Sakurai, sequel to Kirby Air Ride (GameCube, 2003). Modes include Air Ride, Top Ride, City Trial on Skyah, and Road Trip; Metacritic 79, 1.9M sold by June 2026.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Kirby and the Forgotten Land is a 2022 HAL Laboratory 3D platformer for Nintendo Switch, the first fully 3D Kirby game, featuring Mouthful Mode; it scored 85 on Metacritic, sold over 6 million copies, and gained a Switch 2 Edition with Star-Crossed World in 2025.
Kirby Star Allies
Kirby Star Allies is a 2.5D side-scrolling platformer by HAL Laboratory and Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch, released in March 2018, where Friend Hearts recruit enemies as allies.
Kirby Super Star
Kirby Super Star (星のカービィ スーパーデラックス, Kirby's Fun Pak in Europe) is HAL Laboratory's 1996 SNES multi-game compilation directed by Masahiro Sakurai, with seven main games, the Helper co-op system, and the 2008 DS remake Kirby Super Star Ultra.
Kirby: Planet Robobot
Kirby: Planet Robobot (星のカービィ ロボボプラネット) is a 2016 HAL Laboratory Nintendo 3DS Kirby platformer in which Kirby pilots the Robobot Armor mech against the Haltmann Works Company; Metascore 81.
Kirby's Adventure
Kirby's Adventure is HAL Laboratory and Nintendo's 1993 NES platformer, the first home-console Kirby game and the debut of the series' copy ability system. Directed by Masahiro Sakurai, produced by Miyamoto and Iwata; remade as Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land.
Kirby's Avalanche
Kirby's Avalanche, also called Kirby's Ghost Trap in Europe, is a 1995 SNES falling-blob puzzle game by Compile and Nintendo, the Western re-skin of Super Puyo Puyo with Kirby characters, never released in Japan, later on Virtual Console and Switch Online.
Kirby's Dream Land
Kirby's Dream Land (星のカービィ, Hoshi no Kābī) is HAL Laboratory's 1992 Game Boy platformer, the first Kirby game, directed by 19-year-old Masahiro Sakurai; Kirby inhales and spits enemies but has no Copy Ability, and it sold over five million units.
Kirby's Pinball Land
Kirby's Pinball Land (カービィのピンボール) is a 1993 Game Boy pinball game by HAL Laboratory and Nintendo, the third Kirby game and first spin-off, in which Kirby is the ball across three tables ending in a King Dedede boss fight; 1.12 million shipped.
Kirby's Return to Dream Land
Kirby's Return to Dream Land (Kirby's Adventure Wii in PAL regions) is HAL Laboratory's 2011 Wii Kirby platformer with Copy Abilities, Super Abilities, and 4-player co-op; remastered as Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe for Switch in 2023.
Kitana
Kitana, also known as Princess Kitana, is an Edenian princess and assassin in the Mortal Kombat fighting games, wielding steel fans since her 1993 debut.
Klax (video game)
Klax is a 1990 Atari Games arcade puzzle game by Mark Stephen Pierce and Dave Akers: catch tiles from a conveyor, drop them into a 5x5 well, and match three same-colored tiles across 100 waves; widely ported.
Klonoa
Klonoa (Kaze no Klonoa, "Klonoa of the Wind") is Namco's 2.5D side-scrolling platformer series begun with Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (PS1, 1997), followed by Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil (PS2, 2001), a 2008 Wii remake, and the 2022 Phantasy Reverie Series remaster.
Knack (video game)
Knack is a 2013 action platformer developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony as a PlayStation 4 launch exclusive, directed by PS4 architect Mark Cerny.
Knight Lore
Knight Lore: 1984 ZX Spectrum isometric arcade adventure by Ultimate Play The Game (Chris and Tim Stamper), third Sabreman game, first Filmation engine, 40-day werewolf curse, Golden Joystick Game of the Year 1984.
Knuckles the Echidna
Knuckles the Echidna (ナックルズ・ザ・エキドゥナ) is Sega's red echidna from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994), guardian of the Master Emerald on Angel Island, Sonic's gliding, climbing rival, later voiced by Idris Elba in films and a 2024 Paramount+ series.
Koji Kondo (近藤浩治)
Koji Kondo (近藤浩治, born 1960) is Nintendo's veteran composer, creator of the Super Mario Bros. Ground Theme and The Legend of Zelda scores; his 1985 Mario theme was the first video game music in the National Recording Registry.
Konami Code
Konami Code (コナミコマンド, Konami Komando): Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A cheat sequence created by Kazuhisa Hashimoto testing the 1986 NES Gradius port, famous for 30 lives in Contra.
Koopa Troopa
Koopa Troopa: Bowser's turtle soldier in Nintendo's Super Mario games, debuting in Super Mario Bros. (1985); stomping it yields a kickable shell, and it is playable in six Mario Kart titles from Super Mario Kart (1992) onward.
KOS-MOS
KOS-MOS (コスモス) is the female battle android mascot of Monolith Soft's Xenosaga RPG series, built by Vector Industries to fight the Gnosis; Episode III reveals her as a vessel of Mary Magdalene's soul.
Kratos (God of War)
Kratos is the protagonist of Sony Santa Monica's God of War franchise (2005-present), a Spartan demigod who destroyed the Greek pantheon and, from the 2018 reboot, appears as Atreus's father in Norse Midgard; over 21 million franchise sales by 2012, Dave Bautista cast in the Amazon series.
Kris (Deltarune)
Kris Dreemurr (クリス・ドリーマー) is the non-binary human protagonist of Toby Fox's RPG Deltarune, controlled by the player through the SOUL, which Kris removes at chapter endings to act independently.
Kung Lao
Kung Lao is a Mortal Kombat fighting game character, a Shaolin monk and descendant of the champion Great Kung Lao who fights with a razor-rimmed hat, debuting in Mortal Kombat II (1993).
Kung-Fu Master (video game)
Kung-Fu Master (Spartan X, スパルタンＸ) is a 1984 Irem side-scrolling beat 'em up arcade game, distributed by Data East, in which Thomas fights up five temple floors to rescue Sylvia; the first of its genre, ported widely and adapted by Nintendo as Kung Fu.
Kyle Katarn
Kyle Katarn is a fictional Star Wars mercenary-turned-Jedi, protagonist of Dark Forces (1995) and the five-game Jedi Knight series, created by Justin Chin; a Legends character who stole the Death Star plans before Rogue One.
Kyo Kusanagi (草薙京)
Kyo Kusanagi (草薙京) is SNK's lead protagonist of The King of Fighters, debuting in KOF '94 as Japan Team leader; heir of the Kusanagi clan wielding a sacred flame, rival of Iori Yagami, and source of NESTS' clones and K'.
L.A. Noire
L.A. Noire (LA Noire) is a 2011 Team Bondi detective game published by Rockstar, set in 1947 Los Angeles with Cole Phelps, MotionScan facial capture, Metacritic 89, and a VR Case Files spin-off.
Lady Dimitrescu
Lady Dimitrescu (Alcina Dimitrescu, オルチーナ・ドミトレスク) is the 9'6" mutant aristocrat antagonist of Resident Evil Village (2021), a viral meme, voiced by Maggie Robertson, playable in the Winters' Expansion DLC.
Lara Croft
Lara Croft, British archaeologist protagonist of Tomb Raider, created by Toby Gard at Core Design, debuted 24 October 1996; rebooted 2013–2018, now in Amazon Games era with Legacy of Atlantis (2027) and Catalyst (2028).
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, also known as LCGoL, is a 2010 isometric twin-stick action-adventure by Crystal Dynamics, the first co-op Lara Croft game, starring Lara and Totec against the demon Xolotl.