
PvP mode has six different styles of play - Normal, where two teams of up to six players fight it out and whichever team has the most points at the end is the winner Death, where players are given a set stock and fight until the last team is left standing Boss, a variation of Normal in which a random member of the teams will grow to larger, boss sizes and earn five times the points for destroying opponents or being destroyed and Single, where up to eight players can fight in a big free-for-all with no set teams. This mode rewards players with in-game points and experience, with more value for the winning team of players. PvP mode is a traditional player versus player game in general with up to 12 players per match.

There are two main modes of gameplay in SDGO, PvP mode and Mission mode. The game's main theme is the use of gashapon capsules and capsule machines. The most up to date server is certainly the original Korean server, as they create all of the new content, while the other servers usually lag several updates behind. In SD Gundam Capsule Fighter, players can take control of super-deformed versions of units from all Gundam eras, with missions and content based on events from the Universal Century until the latest Advance Generation (depending on the server). On June 16, 2015, the Taiwan Server revealed that they would shut down the same day as the Chinese one, on June 30, 2015, OG Planet revealed that it, too, would shut down that same day before being revised a week later to be July 26. The Chinese server revealed that they would conclude their operations on July 31, 2015. By that date most other servers had either already officially ended service, or announced that they soon would. On Apthe native Korean server, which was published by Netmarble, announced that it would be shutting down service of SD Gundam Capsule Fighter on May 29, after an eight-year run.

Versions of SDGO were localized for China and Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, North America and parts of Europe, and Australia and other parts of south-east Asia. The game began public online service in the summer of 2007 for South Korea, and as time went by new versions were licensed for service in other countries and regions. SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Online (Also known as SD Gundam Capsule Fighter or SDGO for short) is a free-to-play, massively multiplayer online third person shooter video game developed by South Korean game developer Softmax.
