The Best Hack-and-slash Games - Page 4

Update : Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream added at rank #45.
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Jitsu Squad (2022)

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

Jitsu Squad is a four-player co-op fighting game inspired by the Marvel vs Capcom series. The players take on the role of four heroes on a mission to thwart an evil sorcerer’s ambitions and retrieve a powerful demon's soul stone. With beautiful hand-drawn visuals and an over-the-top chop socky soundtrack, this game will have you feeling like you're playing in one of your favorite Saturday morning cartoons.

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What we like:
  • Varied characters
  • Super transformations and screen filling super attacks
  • Visually stunning graphics
  • Entertaining soundtrack
  • Variety of enemies and bosses
What could be improved:
  • Difficulty distinguishing between characters in multiplayer mode
  • Limited number of puzzles
  • Not difficult even at the end

  • ninja
  • beat-em-up
  • 1990s
  • scroller
  • cooperative
  • hack-and-slash
  • fight
  • character
  • swordplay
  • 2d
  • comedy
  • superhero
  • old-school
  • retro
  • linear

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Volgarr the Viking 2 (2024)

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80
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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

A hardcore, 2D action-platformer where only precision can keep you from death.


  • platform
  • 2d
  • hack-and-slash
  • scroller
  • precision
  • fantasy
  • souls
  • mythology
  • hand-drawn
  • pixel
  • action-adventure
  • 1980s-arcade
  • fine-tuned
  • magic
  • dark

33

King of Crabs (2023)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Battle Royale with crabs! Intense multiplayer action, with up to 100 players! Scrap, scavenge and slaughter your way to becoming the King of Crabs!


  • royale
  • humor
  • pve
  • nature
  • pvp
  • hack-and-slash
  • character
  • dark
  • top-down
  • shooter
  • family-friendly
  • funny
  • customization
  • 3d
  • colourful

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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (2020)

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Nintendo Switch

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is a spin-off of Breath of the Wild and takes place in the same world. You play as one of the various characters from Breath of the Wild and fight on huge battlefields against enemies to capture bases and win. Combat has been improved, with many ways to reveal enemy weak points, Flurry Rush mechanic, stasis spells and magic rods.

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What we like:
  • Improved combat flow
  • Unique combat skills for each character
  • Context-sensitive element bonuses
  • Excellent visuals
  • Rich story
  • Great music
What could be improved:
  • Repetitive gameplay
  • Frame rate issues when playing while undocked
  • Busy visuals can be overwhelming
  • Divine beast battles can be difficult to follow

  • battle
  • hack-and-slash
  • combat
  • boss
  • fight
  • combo
  • narrative
  • spin-off
  • cooperative
  • action
  • open-world
  • war
  • split-screen
  • boss-fight
  • story

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EDENS ZERO Pocket Galaxy (2022)

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Android IOS iPhone

Introducing the new mobile game from artist Hiro Mashima’s highly popular manga EDENS ZERO!. A faithful adaptation of its world and story in stunning graphics that will move both fans of the anime and original manga, as well as those yet to explore it, to tears!.

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  • hack-and-slash
  • rich
  • anime
  • fantasy
  • cute

36

Fractured (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

Fractured is a side scroll action game focused on boss battles. As the hero, you take on different boss fights from underground monsters to fighting dragons. Learn from each fight to gain to skill necessary to take down epic monsters.


  • 2.5d
  • precision
  • scroller
  • hack-and-slash
  • platform
  • multiple-endings
  • rpg
  • third-best-selling
  • anime
  • fantasy
  • atmospheric
  • increasingly-difficult
  • weather
  • instagram
  • difficult

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Bleak Sword DX (2023)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Discover and destroy increasingly horrifying creatures across an oppressive lofi world, wielding fierce weaponry and powerful magic in this pocket-sized action adventure.


  • hack-and-slash
  • fantasy
  • dark
  • rogue-like
  • pixel
  • swordplay
  • 2d
  • fight
  • atmospheric
  • boss
  • minimalist
  • linear
  • gladiator
  • action
  • action-adventure

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Ultra Age (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Slash your way through a futuristic Earth overrun with ruthless mutants and powerful robots as Age, a young soldier sent on a mission to prevent the destruction of humankind. Ultra Age is a high-speed character action title co-developed by Next Stage and Visual Dart with Unreal Engine 4.


  • hack-and-slash
  • spectacle
  • action
  • robots
  • post-apocalyptic
  • character
  • third-person
  • rogue-like
  • pve
  • rpg
  • sword-swinging
  • anime
  • violent
  • sci-fi
  • fight

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Samurai Warriors 5 (2021)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

A new SAMURAI WARRIORS begins. After a 7-year wait, a new instalment in the tactical action series "SAMURAI WARRIORS" is finally here!


  • hack-and-slash
  • historical
  • battle
  • combo
  • fight
  • combat
  • skill
  • narrative
  • cooperative
  • ninja
  • action

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Samurai Warrior (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 j Playstation 4 Android PC Windows

A new SAMURAI WARRIORS begins. After a 7-year wait, a new instalment in the tactical action series "SAMURAI WARRIORS" is finally here!


  • hack-and-slash
  • historical
  • battle
  • combo
  • cooperative
  • combat
  • skill
  • narrative
  • fight
  • musou
  • action
  • anime
  • horses
  • split-screen

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