The Best Swordplay Games for PC Windows

Update : Somber Echoes added at rank #26.
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Clone Drone in the Hyperdome (2024)

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PC Windows osvr

Cut robots apart in VR. Feel your sword disintegrate their metal bodies. Now you live and die in the Crashloop, a roguelike tournament to the death. Lock swords! Shoot shurikens from your wrist! This is CLONE DRONE... in the HYPERDOME!!!

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  • robots
  • voxel
  • swordplay
  • destruction
  • human-robots
  • spaceship-battle
  • beat-em-up
  • vr
  • fight
  • sword-fight
  • rogue-like
  • hack-and-slash
  • narrative
  • pve
  • action

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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.

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

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The Bloodline (2023)

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early access PC Windows

An open, freeform Adventure RPG that lets you play your way. Reforge bonds between kingdoms, explore the wilds, craft and plan adventures and wield mighty weapons or magic as you prepare for what is to come…

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  • soundtrack
  • swordplay
  • rpg
  • medieval
  • vampire
  • character
  • sandbox
  • first-person
  • action-adventure
  • open-world
  • third-person
  • war
  • customization
  • combat
  • fantasy

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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

5

En Garde (2023)

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PC Windows

En Garde! – the swashbuckler action game! Battle graceless guards and nefarious noblemen in fast-paced fights full of spectacle. Use the environment, your wit and your blade to teach them all a lesson!

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  • swordplay
  • spectacle
  • comedy
  • beat-em-up
  • fight
  • family-friendly
  • sword-fight
  • third-person
  • cartoony
  • action-adventure
  • colourful
  • stylized
  • wine
  • combat
  • funny

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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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Sclash (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox One

Sclash is a plug’n play 2D samurai fighting game full of tension where one hit is enough to kill. Play as a hand-drawn samurai in beautiful painted settings and fight your opponent in epic solemn duels where each move matters. Manage well your stamina, breath and take your time to land a deadly hit.


  • fight
  • arts
  • spectacle
  • swordplay
  • martial
  • hand-drawn
  • 2d
  • 2.5d
  • character
  • pvp
  • stylized
  • multiplayer
  • scroller
  • customization
  • anime

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The Spirit of the Samurai (2024)

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PC Windows

A village in peril. A samurai reanimated. An Oni advancing. Fight an army of undead warriors and Japanese monsters as a human, a Kodama, and a cat in this 2D stop-motion action adventure.

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  • gore
  • mythology
  • 2d
  • swordplay
  • cinematic
  • action-adventure
  • souls
  • stop-motion
  • platform
  • ninja
  • dark
  • harryhausen
  • hack-and-slash
  • violent
  • atmospheric

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Hellish Quart (2021)

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early access PC Windows

A physics-based, realistic, 3D sword dueling game set in the 17th century. Currently, it features an arcade mode, survival mode, modern HEMA mode, duels vs. AI, wooden weapons sparring, and a local multiplayer mode. Optional VR mode. Early Access.


  • arts
  • swordplay
  • 3d
  • martial
  • historical
  • pve
  • fight
  • character
  • medieval
  • pvp
  • vr
  • customization
  • realistic
  • physics
  • third-person

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Bushi (2022)

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PC Windows ps1

Wield your bow and sword against fierce opponents as you navigate obstacles with dynamic parkour in the samurai-themed arena brawler, Bushi! Inspired by the cult classic GunZ The Duel and The Legend of Son-Goku.

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  • archery
  • arts
  • swordplay
  • parkour
  • tps
  • martial
  • hack-and-slash
  • pvp
  • versus
  • character
  • arena
  • shooter
  • beat-em-up
  • customization
  • 3d

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