Best Swordplay Games on Steam
Games focused on blades, fencing, duels, parries, and melee timing.
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1Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - A thrilling story-driven action RPG, with a rich open world, set in 15th century Medieval Europe. Experience the ultimate medieval adventure - through the eyes of young Henry - as you embark on a journey of epic proportions.
Feb 4, 2025
In this game, you can…
- get ambushed mid-wagon ride, fight beside guards, then keep chatting like nothing happened.
- have towns remember your thefts so people grow suspicious, change locks, and hire guards.
- win a tournament, then get spared by would-be attackers who recognize you later in the street.
- pick a lock in a sleeping house, loot the chest, slip through a garden, and vanish into the trees unseen.
- walk through a world where every NPC works, goes to the pub, then sleeps on a daily routine.
- travel while conversations keep happening in motion, with jokes and gossip continuing through the journey.
- bathe, eat, and wear clean clothes because shopkeepers and strangers treat you differently when you look filthy.
- bring a dog companion that can track, help in fights, and still needs feeding and petting like a real animal.
2Kenshi - A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Dec 6, 2018
In this game, you can…
- throw someone into acid to melt their legs off, then install bionic scout legs so they can outrun everyone and steal dinosaur eggs.
- leave a shop door open, watch a camel wander in, and trigger a chain fight where shopkeepers, guards, and caravans brawl across town.
- get enslaved for stealing food, train lockpicking and stealth at night, free other slaves, and sprint into the wilderness with guards chasing you.
- get beaten unconscious by bandits, wake up, and come back tougher because taking hits raises your durability.
- lose an arm or leg, crawl across the desert to safety, then replace it with a metal limb and come back faster and stronger.
- start as an escaped slave, build a drug-running business, hire an army, and turn your grudge into a full war against a government.
- turn prison time into training by repeatedly breaking out, getting caught, healing up, and leveling skills from inside a cage.
- build a base with one bad gap, then watch bandits and cannibals pile into your storage building together while you scramble to survive the pileup.
3METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE - Developed by Kojima Productions and PlatinumGames, METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE takes the renowned METAL GEAR franchise into exciting new territory with an all-new action experience. The game seamlessly melds pure action and epic story-telling that surrounds Raiden – a child soldier transformed into a half-human, half-cyborg ninja who...
Jan 9, 2014
In this game, you can…
- throw a massive Metal Gear around like a ragdoll.
- jump rocket to rocket through a barrage, sprint down a collapsing building, and finish by cutting the Metal Gear in half.
- slow time and slice enemies apart with precise cuts, then rip out their spines mid-fight to heal.
- learn to parry, then minutes later fight an ocean-rising mech with a huge death laser.
- perfect-parry an attack, counter instantly, then slow everything down to carve out an enemy's power core to recharge.
- slice a robo-dog boss in a fight, then later reprogram it into your ally.
- get into a shirtless fistfight with a U.S. senator who's boosted by nanomachines like a superhero.
4Beat Saber - Beat Saber is a VR rhythm game where you slash the beats of adrenaline-pumping music as they fly towards you, surrounded by a futuristic world.
May 21, 2019
In this game, you can…
- load mods that swap in custom sabers, platforms, worlds, and even full-body tracking so your whole body becomes the controller.
- play campaign stages that give you weird objectives like swinging your arms for 900 meters while you deliberately avoid building a combo.
- get scored on how you swing, not just whether you hit—slice angle and follow-through directly change your points.
- slash color-coded blocks to the beat, matching the required direction with the right hand.
- duck under walls while you keep slicing notes, and flick your wrists away from bombs to save your combo.
- chase high scores on global leaderboards, then jump into multiplayer and duel friends until someone finally cracks.
- play custom songs and community-made maps people keep uploading, so your track list can keep growing for years.
- use a level editor to build your own beat maps, then share them for other players to download and master.
5Ghostrunner - Ghostrunner offers a unique single-player experience: fast-paced, violent combat, and an original setting that blends science fiction with post-apocalyptic themes. It tells the story of a world that has already ended and its inhabitants who fight to survive.
Oct 27, 2020
In this game, you can…
- slow time and deflect bullets with your sword, ricocheting shots back into enemies while you keep moving.
- unlock new powers like Tempest, Blink, shurikens, a dash that pierces multiple enemies and bullets, and a telekinetic hand strike to clear rooms in new ways.
- race your friends' stage times and death counts, replaying levels to shave seconds off by finding tighter routes.
- chain sprinting, sliding, dashing, and wall-running into one continuous parkour rhythm across an entire level.
- wall-run across malfunctioning billboards, slow time to slip through bullets, then dart behind the shooter for a katana kill.
- grapple, wall-run, slide, and dash to preserve speed, then ride that built-up momentum into absurd fast kills.
- identify shielded enemies and shield orbs, route through the arena to break defenses first, then cut through the rest in one clean sequence.
6Blade and Sorcery - Blade & Sorcery is a built-for-VR medieval fantasy with full physics driven melee, ranged and magic combat. Become a powerful warrior, ranger or sorcerer and devastate your enemies.
Jun 17, 2024
In this game, you can…
- catch an arrow out of mid-air, then stab people with the arrow you just caught.
- cling to a huge stone golem, crawl over it, and punch out its glowing crystals while it tries to shake you off.
- use telekinesis to grab a barrel, smash an enemy from behind, then fling someone across the room so they explode a table.
- punch someone, steal the dagger off their hip, and use it on them before they recover.
- catch a swordsman's wrist mid-swing, bend his arm until he drops his weapon, then pick it up and turn it on him.
- cast fire and lightning from your hands, coat your weapon with a spell, then blast enemies away or yank them around with magic.
- go into slow motion and, with full-body leg tracking, win fights by kicking enemies like it's martial arts training.
- sneak up behind enemies in a dungeon, shove them off ledges, then keep moving through rooms of ambushes and brutal takedowns.
7Granblue Fantasy: Relink - A grand adventure in the skies awaits! Form a party of four from a diverse roster of skyfarers and slash—or shoot or hex—your way to victory against treacherous foes in this action RPG. Take on quests solo or with the help of others in up to 4-player co-op play!
Jan 31, 2024
In this game, you can…
- time all four ultimates at once to interrupt the boss and detonate a single massive team burst.
- build Link Attacks until Link Time triggers, slows everything down, buffs the party, and lets everyone unload together.
- play solo with CPU allies who dodge, revive you, and use support skills well enough to feel like a real squad.
- fight a god on a flying ship in the opening minutes.
- cancel almost any attack into a dodge or guard to keep your combo alive.
- wait out a boss's hyper-aggressive phase, then counter into a stagger and get a long window to freely punish.
- switch to a completely different combat style by recruiting a new crewmate, then rebuild how you approach every boss fight.
- finish the story, then unlock harder modes where the real loop is farming bosses, tuning builds, and pushing faster clears.
8Wandering Sword - Wandering Sword is a Chinese martial-arts RPG where you play a young swordsman caught up in a feud and nearly dies. Escaping the event puts you on the path of pursuing the highest form of martial arts and exploring the pugilistic world to become the great hero you are always destined to be.
Sep 14, 2023
In this game, you can…
- beat up someone you just befriended until they cough up your gifts.
- make one dialogue choice or travel to the wrong place and unknowingly lock out whole questlines hours later.
- recruit up to 14 unique martial artists and learn new techniques by raising friendship with the right masters.
- roam a huge chunk of the world early, poking into towns, mountains, rivers, lairs, and hidden corners for secrets.
- track down side stories that only continue if you investigate, leave, and come back later at the right time.
- switch between turn-based fights and real-time combat, then swap back in for the battles that matter.
- hunt techniques, weapons, recipes, pills, and books, then pivot your main character from fists to sword to staff builds.
- carry power forward into a new run, start stronger, and reroute your choices to uncover different recruits and endings.
9Bright Memory: Infinite - Bright Memory: Infinite is an all-new lightning-fast fusion of the FPS and action genres, created by FYQD-Studio. Combine a wide variety of skills and abilities to unleash dazzling combo attacks.
Nov 11, 2021
In this game, you can…
- slash through a crowd with a sword and send their bullets back at them.
- use an automatic pistol that can fire a rocket as its secondary shot.
- fight enemies on a plane mid-air, switching between gunplay and sword strikes as the set piece keeps escalating.
- chain gunfire, sword hits, powers, and air dashes into one long combo that keeps enemies suspended.
- freeze an enemy in place, yank them to you, and finish them before they can hit the ground.
- levitate a group with your arm device, then detonate them with an EMP stun or a close-range fireball.
- pull an enemy close with the Exo Arm, blast them apart, slice them in half, then launch the next one into an aerial juggle.
- replay on harder difficulties and try clearing encounters in totally different styles, like parry-only or skill-heavy combos.
10Clone Drone in the Danger Zone - Clone Drone in the Danger Zone is a robot voxel slice-em-up where any part of your body can be sliced off. With your mind downloaded into a robot gladiator, you must survive the sinister trials of the arena.
Jul 27, 2021
In this game, you can…
- lose an arm or leg mid-fight and keep battling anyway, hopping, crawling, and adapting with whatever parts you have left.
- let Twitch chat bet on your match and spend coins to spawn enemies to try to kill you.
- fight through arenas packed with hazards like lava, spikes, fire tunnels, and even sudden spaceship dogfights.
- get your mind downloaded into a robot body and thrown into an arena to survive deadly trials.
- kick robots so hard it becomes one of your strongest attacks.
- pick upgrades between fights, like turning your sword into a fire sword or swapping to a bow to counter archers.
- have sports-caster robots narrate your victories and disasters as they happen.
- play brutal challenge runs that force you into bow-only, hammer-only, or kick-only stages.
- build and share custom arenas in a level editor, including elaborate robot-killing trap gauntlets.
