The Best Swordplay Games for Playstation 5

Update : Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream added at rank #5.
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Kalinur (2023)

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

Defeat the mage Kalinur and bring peace back to the kingdom in this mini metroidvania with a lot of action.


  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • swordplay
  • retro
  • fantasy
  • platform
  • demons
  • pixel
  • dark
  • adventure
  • exploration
  • medieval
  • action
  • nonlinear

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SpiderHeck (2022)

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

Spiders with laser swords! Duel to the death against your friends or choose to team up and hold back swarms of savage enemies. Swing, stab and shoot with style, effortlessly performing movie-worthy parkour.


  • local
  • cooperative
  • fight
  • swordplay
  • parkour
  • 2d
  • multiplayer
  • physics
  • 4-player
  • pvp
  • wave
  • funny
  • futuristic
  • comedy
  • online

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Naraka: Bladepoint (2021)

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PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X

Dive into the legends of the Far East in NARAKA: BLADEPOINT; team up with friends in fast-paced melee fights for a Battle Royale experience unlike any other. Find your playstyle with a varied cast of heroes with unique skills. More than 20 million players have already joined the fray, play free now!


  • royale
  • martial
  • parkour
  • battle
  • fight
  • arts
  • swordplay
  • multiplayer
  • customization
  • character
  • pvp
  • hack-and-slash
  • mmo
  • combat
  • third-person

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Shing! (2020)

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PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS

Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!


  • beat-em-up
  • demons
  • cooperative
  • ninja
  • fight
  • rogue-like
  • swordplay
  • hack-and-slash
  • 2.5d
  • spectacle
  • scroller
  • character
  • side-scrolling
  • colourful
  • arcade

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Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream (2024)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5

In this online co-op action game, enter a distorted version of the SWORD ART ONLINE world. Pick your role in the form of favorite SWORD ART ONLINE characters and team up with 20 players for raids to defeat powerful enemies.


  • cooperative
  • rpg
  • multiplayer
  • tps
  • action
  • hack-and-slash
  • anime
  • swordplay
  • magic
  • casual
  • online
  • 3d
  • boss
  • character
  • pve

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Wanted: Dead (2023)

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Playstation 5 Xbox Series X PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Xbox Series X/s

Wanted: Dead is a new hybrid slasher/shooter from the makers of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive. The game follows a week in life of the Zombie Unit, an elite Hong Kong police squad on a mission to uncover a major corporate conspiracy.


  • cyberpunk
  • tps
  • hack-and-slash
  • shooter
  • swordplay
  • conspiracy
  • cover
  • bullet
  • time
  • third-person
  • dystopian
  • anime
  • action
  • squad
  • action-adventure

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Bot Gaiden (2022)

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

Bot Gaiden is a vibrant 2D platformer built for speed. Take control of ninjabots Robyu and Bytron as they seek to recover the golden skulls from the hands of the mysterious Giorqio and his band of hench-bots. Race to the finish, because bosses get stronger with time.


  • comic
  • swordplay
  • nonlinear
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • hack-and-slash
  • ninja
  • platform
  • book
  • action-adventure
  • colourful
  • hand-drawn
  • family-friendly
  • robots

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Heidelberg 1693 (2020)

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

Black magic in the age of pike and shot! Reload your musket after every blast in “Heidelberg 1693”, a challenging 2D action adventure set in a dark and twisted vision of Germany in the late 17th century.


  • platform
  • 2d
  • horror
  • swordplay
  • historical
  • alternate
  • arcade
  • dark
  • pixel
  • fantasy
  • medieval
  • zombies
  • gore
  • scroller
  • old-school

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Samurai Kento (2023)

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Play as Kento, an Elder Samurai, and face the evil Yokai in this 2D pixelated mini action RPG set in Feudal Japan based scenarios!


  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • rpg
  • swordplay
  • platform
  • 1990s
  • action-adventure
  • 1980s
  • snow
  • demons
  • colourful
  • magic
  • action
  • pixel

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Amedama (2024)

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Side-scrolling, soul-shifting sandbox action adventure brought to life with a striking new 2D style! With only his soul remaining, Yushin must fight tooth and nail, possessing body after body on a quest to find his sister. With just seven days left until his soul departs, can he save her in time?


  • dark
  • swordplay
  • nonlinear
  • 2.5d
  • conversation
  • scroller
  • choices
  • historical
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • rpg
  • 2d
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • fantasy

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