The Best Beat-em-up Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 3

Update : River City Saga: Three Kingdoms Next added at rank #37.
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RWBY: Arrowfell (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X PC Windows

Dive into an explosive new RWBY adventure! Instantly switch between Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang, and use their weapons and Semblances to battle a mysterious new threat in this in-canon story set during RWBY Volume 7! Featuring a new song by Jeff Williams with vocals by Casey Lee Williams!

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  • beat-em-up
  • platform
  • scroller
  • anime
  • action-adventure
  • 2.5d
  • hack-and-slash
  • 2d
  • exploration
  • boss-fight
  • combat
  • action
  • family-friendly
  • boss
  • colourful

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Tonight We Riot (2020)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

The game follows a player-controlled crowd of workers rather than a single character,[4] each member with their own weapons, to fight against Pinkertons, militias, and police as they move their way through a level. Players can inspire more workers to join the crowd by liberating factories and encouraging more workers to join the fight. The game's difficulty is dynamic as it is tied in part due to the size of the mob, from being extremely difficult as a single worker to challenging or easy as the mob grows in size.[5] The levels end in boss fights ranging from large vehicles operated by the police to the President of the fictional country the game takes place in.[6][7]

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  • political
  • beat-em-up
  • crowd
  • politics
  • cooperative

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Paw Paw Paw (2020)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch Mac OS

Paw Paw Paw is a fun side-scrolling beat-em-up game set in the woods, with sword-n-shield based combat and lots of unlockables. The game follows a maverick group of woodland animals who have rebelled against a corrupt(ed) king, and refused to be forced to wear trousers. Experience the joys of 2D characters walking about in a world with X, Y and Z coordinates and use different weapon types for tactically different gameplay.

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What we like:
  • Lots of unlockables
  • Rideable creatures and other characters to play
  • XP maintained when you die so no need to start from scratch
  • Different weapon types for each character mixes up tactics
  • Super cute visuals with violent combat
What could be improved:
  • Clumsy trying to align with equally flat enemies
  • Getting the first few combos unlocked is a lengthy process
  • Hitboxes are very inconsistent
  • Balance is all over the place

  • cooperative
  • beat-em-up
  • hack-and-slash
  • local
  • funny
  • scroller
  • action-adventure
  • side-scrolling
  • class
  • fantasy
  • comedy
  • 2d
  • rpg
  • action
  • cartoony

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed (2024)

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Join the Turtle brothers straight from the sewers and slide into this new adventure of shell-shocking proportions!


  • beat-em-up
  • arts
  • 3d
  • martial
  • comic
  • cartoony
  • cooperative
  • book
  • ninja
  • fight
  • family-friendly
  • colourful
  • controller-support

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The TakeOver (2019)

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

The TakeOver is a side-scrolling beat'em up inspired by the genre defining classic games of the 90's. Battle solo or alongside a friend in local co-op while listening to awesome tunes from Little V Mills, Richie Branson, James Ronald and industry legend Yuzo Koshiro!

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  • beat-em-up
  • cooperative
  • brawler
  • side-scrolling
  • local
  • violent
  • 1990s
  • fight
  • classic
  • scroller
  • gore
  • campaign

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Power Rangers: Battle For The Grid (2019)

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stadia PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One

Generations of Power Rangers collide across the multiverse’s 25 year history. Experience authentic, but reimagined Power Rangers gameplay. This easy to learn, but hard to master fighting game is designed to welcome players of all skill levels.

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  • fight
  • beat-em-up
  • francisco
  • privacy-policy
  • combo
  • action
  • cross-platform
  • ninja
  • villain

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One Finger Death Punch 2 (2019)

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IOS iPhone Android Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows

The world's fastest brawler is back. Experience cinematic kung-fu in the most epic stickman fighter ever made. Staying true to the original, you play with only two buttons. Every press matters, do not button mash!

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  • beat-em-up
  • brawler
  • fight
  • arts
  • rhythm
  • survival
  • martial
  • 2d
  • fast-paced
  • action
  • skill

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Way of the Passive Fist (2018)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Way of the Passive Fist is a unique and colorful arcade brawler. Parry, Dodge and Dash to outwit and outlast your enemies on a desolate planet ruled by raiders, mutants and fanatical sun worshipers. It's a new kind of tactical fighting in the licensed arcade brawler for the 90s cartoon you wish existed.


  • beat-em-up
  • pixel
  • brawler
  • rhythm
  • action
  • fight

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Hot Blood (2024)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch

Take down zombies as a deadly cutie in 3D low-poly style! Hot Blood is physics-based brawling fun inspired by action movies of the 80s & 90s.


  • beat-em-up
  • hack-and-slash
  • zombies
  • 3d
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • open-world
  • gore
  • funny
  • blood
  • violent
  • colourful
  • fight
  • soundtrack

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Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl (2020)

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Play as Jay and Silent Bob in a retro 8-bit sidescrolling brawler solo or with a friend. Pummel enemies with hard-hitting combos, dash attacks, and elbow drops as well as a random assortment of weapons as you battle your way out of the mall and back to the Quickstop.

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  • cooperative
  • retro
  • beat-em-up
  • boss-fight
  • comedy
  • boss
  • fight
  • classic
  • 2d
  • character
  • arcade
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • comic
  • hockey

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