
First Cut: Samurai Duel
Aim your blade, read your rival, and settle pixel-art sword duels where a single strike can decide everything.
Chasing that tense and brutal feeling you got from Bloodless? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
A pixel-art sword duel where every strike kills. Aim your blade high, low or middle, parry, dodge and shove, and one clean cut ends the fight, often with a limb or two flying. Duels with friends, survival waves, a scenario campaign and silly modifiers make it easy to keep coming back for one more clash.
Tense, Brutal, Fast-paced
Master tactical sword fighting combat, or discover ways to avoid bloodshed. A journey that trusts you from beginning to end.
Tense, Brutal, Retro
A fast, brutal third-person action game where you play an orc girl cutting through a sci-fi city. There are no heal items: the only way back from a mistake is to stun an enemy and execute them to take their blood. High penalty, high reward, and a fight that never lets up.
Also in Soulslike · Tense, Brutal, Fast-paced
Slice Dice & Rice is an indie fighting game with no health bars. Inspired by Bushido Blade, it revolves around the idea of finding an opening in opponents defense and ending the round with a single, clean hit.
Tense, Brutal, Fast-paced
A neo-noir action platformer where one hit kills, and that is fine, because you can rewind time and try again. Slash through guards, deflect bullets back, and unravel a story that twists harder than the combat. Short, sharp and unforgettable.
Tense, Brutal, Fast-paced
Red Ronin is a Turn-based but fast paced dash 'n slash game where a bloodthirsty ronin and her companion bot search for revenge.
Tense, Retro
A game about parrying, attacking, and overcoming difficult foes
Tense, Fast-paced, Retro
A black-and-white samurai film you play. Hiroki swears a dying vow to protect his town, then must travel beyond life and death to keep it. Striking camera work, a period score and tense katana duels carry a short, somber story with four endings.
Tense, Fast-paced, Hand-drawn
Beautiful 16 bit retro art style with fluid animations and deliberate combat. Read the enemy and act accordingly in this seamless world without any load screens.
Also in Soulslike · Tense, Brutal, Fast-paced
A fast arena hack and slash about a schoolgirl swordswoman hunting her best friend, who stole a demon blade. Slash, parry and counter waves of demons, build your katana gauge, then finish crowds off with a stylish sheathing strike. Short, sharp and best in bursts.
Tense, Brutal, Fast-paced
One-hit kill die-retry murderballet. Left for dead by a colorful band of bandits: you will chain killing sprees to exact revenge on the treacherous Mr. Black Wolf. Improvise your kills with utterly everything you can get your hands on: from carrots to plasma guns.
Tense, Brutal, Fast-paced
En Garde! is a swashbuckling action game about Adalia de Volador, legendary duelist and hero of the people. Parry, riposte and lunge through 17th century Spain, flinging jugs, barrels and chandeliers at graceless guards while trading one-liners. Fast, funny and painted like a storybook, it teaches a cruel Count-Duke a lesson in style.
Also in Soulslike · Fast-paced, Hand-drawn

Aim your blade, read your rival, and settle pixel-art sword duels where a single strike can decide everything.

Slice Dice & Rice is an indie fighting game with no health bars.

Red Ronin is a Turn-based but fast paced dash 'n slash game where a bloodthirsty ronin and her companion bot search for revenge.

A game about parrying, attacking, and overcoming difficult foes

You play Misa, a Blade Templar chasing her possessed classmate through wave after wave of demons.

Bloody stealth platformer, about the ninja in which you cut the enemies into pieces.

Plot each leap and blade strike in frozen time, stalking five corporate targets through a cyberpunk city.

Slice through hordes of samurai and demons, collect combat techniques and forge a fighting style of your own to take down an eight-headed dragon.

Samurai: Ronin's Path is a dynamic action game set in feudal Japan.

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…

Rogue Samurai is an intense roguelite action game where you fight relentless waves of enemies as a legendary samurai.

Sclash is a plug’n play 2D samurai fighting game full of tension where one hit is enough to kill.

False Hero is a fast-paced soulslike where every enemy you kill teaches you its attack.

Kats Trigger is hyper-speed noir action in pixel art, following Otter and Stray Cat.

Shady Knight is a first-person skill-driven melee action game centered around swift swordplay, acrobatic archery, and fluid platforming that…

Long may the sun shine! Prepare to suffer! Souls-like combat adventure in a unique world.

Trade blows with stick-figure beings in a newborn universe, absorbing rivals to gain their skills and exploring dreamlike realms full of secrets.

An Action Adventure Game that lets you craft unique COMBOs and explore endless ways to style on your enemies with a high-speed combat system.

Aim your blade, read your rival, and settle pixel-art sword duels where a single strike can decide everything.

Duel your way across 17th century Spain as a legendary swordswoman, turning clumsy guards and furniture into part of the show.

Sclash is a plug’n play 2D samurai fighting game full of tension where one hit is enough to kill.

Slice through hordes of samurai and demons, collect combat techniques and forge a fighting style of your own to take down an eight-headed dragon.

Slave Zero X is a stylish 2.5D character action game set in the biopunk world of Slave Zero (1999).

Strayed Lights is a colourful action-adventure featuring epic boss fights and a unique parry-based combat system.

A fast, cinematic kungfu action RPG about a dying warrior chasing assassins through a dark wuxia world.

False Hero is a fast-paced soulslike where every enemy you kill teaches you its attack.

Sword duels with monsters in a dark, cinematic Edo Kyoto, where every fight is fast, brutal and earned.

Read each boss's moves, dodge with precision and cut down the Bloodstained on a grim road through a fallen kingdom.

Long may the sun shine! Prepare to suffer! Souls-like combat adventure in a unique world.

Purify a world of demons as the Flame Princess, weaving combos and parries through hails of projectiles.

Kats Trigger is hyper-speed noir action in pixel art, following Otter and Stray Cat.

Dive into the neon-drenched deep underground of Tokyo as Kobayashi, a deadly assassin who harnesses the power of blood energy.

An Action Adventure Game that lets you craft unique COMBOs and explore endless ways to style on your enemies with a high-speed combat system.

Cut through a dark fantasy empire as a betrayed general, learning every boss the hard way.

Shady Knight is a first-person skill-driven melee action game centered around swift swordplay, acrobatic archery, and fluid platforming that…

Fight through a post-apocalyptic side-scroller as Yue, building a fresh weapon and class combo every run.