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Build custom gladiator moves and fight physics-driven duels where precise wounds can cripple or kill.
Released 16 Sep 2026
Build Custom Moves
Target Vital Organs
Sever Arms And Legs
Gladio Mori is a physics-driven gladiator fighting game with no health bars. Stab on arteries, pierce vital organs and cut off limbs. Build your own movesets, paint your fighter and battle friends online with cross-play.
Developed by Plebeian Studio · Published by Bonus Stage Publishing, Korgi Digital (China)
Gladio Mori is a physics-driven gladiator fighting game. You control a fighter in arena duels, using weapons and armor in combat where injuries affect the body part they hit rather than reducing a health bar.
Choose or create attacks in a move editor by arranging poses, limb positions, and timing, then chain moves into a moveset. Equip weapons, shields, and armor, and paint your fighter or use creations shared by other players.
Fight AI opponents in a solo campaign or battle up to three other players online. The game also includes a community gallery for movesets and other creations, plus replays with timeline controls and a free camera.
Players who enjoy Gladio Mori often praise the freedom to design and refine custom movesets, and the unpredictable physics can make fights funny as well as competitive. Several reviewers especially enjoy showing off creations and playing with friends. Others describe a steep learning curve and criticize movement, custom moves they consider unfair, and difficulties in public lobbies.
Gladio Mori is a physics-driven gladiator fighting game where every hit damages the body where it lands. Injure muscles, sever arteries, pierce vital organs or cut off a limb entirely.
Build your own attacks, paint your fighter or use creations shared by other players. Fight through the solo campaign or enter online arenas for up to four players, with cross-play between Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
There are no health bars. Damage a muscle and the affected limb loses strength. Sever an artery and the fighter starts bleeding out. Pierce a vital organ and the fight can end immediately.
Hands, arms and legs can all be cut off. Lose a hand and anything it was holding goes with it. Lose a leg and the rest of the fight becomes considerably more complicated.
Watch your sword hand. Fighting gets harder when it is lying on the other side of the arena.
Blunt weapons crack bones and stagger. Blades cut along their sharpened edge, so the angle of every strike matters. Armour stops attacks where it covers the body, while every gap remains a target.
Forget health bars—combat in Gladio Mori is as brutal as it is precise. Damage to muscles, arteries, and vitals directly impacts your ability to fight:
Injured Muscles weaken your strikes.
Severed Arteries cause you to bleed out.
Pierced Vitals mean instant death.
Precision and strategy are your greatest weapons.
Create your own attacks one pose at a time. Set the stance, position the limbs, adjust the timing and save the finished move. Chain individual moves into a complete moveset and take it directly into a fight.
Build a precise technique, recreate a favourite move or invent something no trained gladiator would ever attempt.
You can also browse the community gallery, equip a complete moveset made by another player or combine individual moves into your own fighting style.
Paint and draw directly onto your character with the in-game skin editor. Create your own design, take it into the arena and make sure everyone knows exactly who removed their arm.
PC players can also download the character’s skin template and edit it in any image editor. Share the finished skin through mod.io or choose one created by another player.
Choose from 34 weapons, plus your fists if you are willing to count them. Fight with anything from a gladius or spear to a kanabo, halberd or guandao. Add one of three shields, pick up a two-handed weapon or enter the arena unarmed.
Every weapon includes a basic moveset. Use it as it is, change it in the editor or replace it with one created by the community.
Build your protection from 17 equippable armour pieces, ranging from bracers to full plate. Each piece protects the part of the body it physically covers. Everything else is still available to your opponent.
Host or join online fights for up to four players. Cross-play connects players on Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
The solo campaign let you face AI opponents, learn the weapons and get familiar with the damage system before taking your creations online.
Open the in-game mod gallery to browse community-made weapons, armour, arenas, movesets and character skins on PC and console.
The base game includes 34 weapons. Mods bring many more. PC creators can also publish their own work through mod.io for other players to use.
Save any fight as a replay, scrub through the action and move the camera freely.
Show your friends exactly how you sliced them up. Rewind it. Show them again.
Organ-based damage with bleeding, broken bones and instant vital strikes
Dismemberment affecting hands, arms and legs
Move editor and community moveset gallery
In-game character skin editor
Downloadable PC skin template and community skin sharing
34 weapons, unarmed combat and three shields
17 equippable armour pieces
Online multiplayer for up to four players
Cross-play between Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S
In-game mod gallery on PC and console
Replay tools with timeline controls and a free camera
Solo campaign and tutorial
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 25 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| Content notices |
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| Website | Official website |
