Geo emulation was bundled with many other SNK Playmore Neo Geo emulated ports and released on the Humble Bundle store on December 8, 2015. Though the browser version of some of these games including this one played a bit too fast in the emulated software window, they had Steam client versions available. This game and many others in the Neo Geo 25th Anniversary bundle that were on Humble Bundle were later released for DRM-free download on GOG.com on May 31, 2017. As with the original Samurai Shodown, the Neo Geo AES version censors all blood in the game. However, Samurai Shodown II also includes a "blood code" to enable all blood; SNK provided this code to gaming magazines for publication and to those who called their customer service department. Reception Commercial In North America, RePlay reported it to be the 12th most-popular arcade game in October 1994, despite only being available for location testing at the time. In Japan, Game Machine listed it on their December 1, 1994 issue as being the most-successful table arcade unit of the month. It went on to be Japan's eighth highest-grossing arcade game of 1995. According to Famitsu, both the Neo Geo AES and Neo Geo CD versions sold over 75,066 and 20,487 copies during their first week on the Japanese market, respectively. The AES version went on to sell 205,554 units and the CD version 129,951 units, for a total of 335,505 units sold in Japan. Critical Samurai Shodown II was well-received by critics and considered an improvement over the original. The four reviewers of EGM gave the Neo Geo home version unanimous scores of 9/10 each and the "Game of the Month" title, saying that the game improved in every aspect over its already excellent predecessor. They later ranked it #4 in the 1995 EGM "Hot 50", higher than any other fighting game. GamePro praised improvements such as the revised POW meter and secret moves as well as "the best graphics ever seen in a hand-drawn animated fighting game" but said the combos are still unbalanced, with some characters able to do far more damage than others. They remarked that, in combination with other recent releases such as Fatal Fury Special, SNK was close to overtaking Capcom as the premier maker of fighting games. A reviewer for Next Generation said that the game was the same as its predecessor aside from some