Martial Masters

The game features 12 fighters, each with their own special moves and fighting styles. Moves include throws, air attacks, ground attacks, taunts, teleport, recovery, martial arts moves, special moves, and super special moves. Martial Masters has a combo counter, and has Pressure Moves which are performed by pressing the control stick in a certain direction with a button. Roll Recovery allows the players to recover from an attack that knocks their character down before they hit the ground.

Flash Attack knocks the player's opponent away. Shadow Attacks has two variations of attack, the first being a juggle type attack that will knock an opponent up into the air, while the second is a ground attack that can usually do anywhere between 4 and 13 hits.

At the end of the Qing dynasty, the government weakened by corruption was attacked by foreign influences. The people were flung into misery and became quite unsatisfied with the situation. They did not believe in the government anymore and turned their faith back to religion.

The White Lotus sect saw this as an opportunity and took over. They claimed to help the government to defeat foreigners and bring peace to the world. Their ideology was quickly adopted. Everything related with the Western world was killed or destroyed.

The setting and characters draw inspiration from Hong Kong martial arts films, specifically Once Upon a Time in China, Drunken Master and Operation Scorpio. The game is highly reminiscent of Capcom's fighting games of the mid to late 1990s, with mechanics similar to those of Street Fighter III. Martial Masters is IGS's third arcade 2D fighting game, with Alien Challenge being their first, The Killing Blade their second, and Spectral vs. Generation being their fourth (in collaboration with Idea Factory).

In April 2023, IGS released the IGS Classic Arcade Collection on the Nintendo Switch, a compilation of eight games originally created for the IGS PolyGame Master. Included in the collection is Martial Masters.