Best Violent Games on Steam
Games with frequent combat, bloodshed, killing, injury, or aggressive conflict.
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1Black Myth: Wukong - Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious legend from the past.
Aug 19, 2024
In this game, you can…
- turn into bosses you've defeated and use their forms in fights.
- play as Sun Wukong in the prologue.
- beat a chapter's main boss, then watch a stylized animated epilogue that turns your actions into a narrated painting.
- build energy by dodging and basic hits, then spend it on heavier attacks instead of blocking.
- chain perfect dodges to power up your next big hit.
- respec for free and switch your whole build at any rest point.
- stumble into secret zones, hidden bosses, and optional questlines by exploring and backtracking.
- fill a journal where every enemy kill can unlock a folklore story entry.
2ELDEN RING - THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.
Feb 24, 2022
In this game, you can…
- discover a whole underground world layer with its own landscapes, secret bosses, and places you'd never guess existed.
- find bosses that only appear at night, turning a quiet road into a sudden unique fight with special loot.
- follow a side quest that escalates into meeting an entire eccentric family and ends with you marrying into it.
- walk away from a boss, roam somewhere else for gear and levels, then come back later and finally win.
- step out into a massive open world and immediately ride in any direction you can see.
- ride a spectral horse that can double-jump, then use mounted combat to fight huge enemies in the open field.
3Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition - Game of the Year - The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 - IGN Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the award winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.
Mar 21, 2019
In this game, you can…
- come back to life mid-fight and keep swinging.
- stomp a spear thrust by stepping on the attacker's weapon.
- get ambushed by a giant ape that grabs its own poop and throws it at you.
- grapple across rooftops, trees, and cliffs to hit enemies from above.
- erase a mini-boss's first health bar by opening with a stealth backstab.
- turn boss fights into a posture-breaking duel where constant pressure leads to a single finishing blow.
- throw firecrackers and other tools to stun enemies and create openings instead of trading hits.
- replay major bosses in dedicated challenge modes after finishing the story.
4People Playground - Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Jul 23, 2019
In this game, you can…
- tear maps open with explosives until wall panels fall away, revealing detailed pipes and wiring hidden behind the surface.
- strap rocket boosters to ragdolls, then escalate into spike-and-flamethrower traps and a machine that launches someone into space.
- swap a person's blood for other liquids, like acid or atomic-bomb ingredients, and watch their body chemically change and even glow green.
- kidnap three people, make them fight to the death, then set the last one free.
- wire generators, logic gates, and machines together into contraptions that mix electricity, fire, acid, bullets, syringes, and healing fields.
- spawn people with jetpacks and swords, then make them fight robots or other AI while you stage the whole arena.
- mess with the environment—temperature, rain, snow, lightning, ocean, lava, abyss—and use it to run controlled catastrophe experiments.
5Titanfall® 2 - Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Jun 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- swap between two timelines mid-fight to flank enemies and solve traversal puzzles in the same room.
- call down your titan from orbit, climb in, and switch from parkour gunfights to towering mech brawls.
- get chased on foot by a titan, then use movement, cloaking, and anti-mech weapons to slip away at the last second.
- dropkick an enemy, cloak, then wallrun over a gap to pick off a sniper before anyone tracks you.
- chain wallruns, slides, double jumps, and mantles fast enough that traversal becomes your main way to win fights.
- start a match as a pilot, then watch the battlefield shift when titans arrive and fights turn into mech duels across the map.
- fight named boss titans in full mech showdowns where the duel is the whole encounter, not just a bigger enemy.
- play a four-player co-op mode where you defend a harvester against waves of enemies and giant mech bots.
6Resident Evil 4 - Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Mar 23, 2023
In this game, you can…
- stun a villager and follow up by suplexing them onto the ground.
- board a minecart and ride it through a combat-heavy escape sequence that plays like an action set piece.
- hunt down regenerating enemies that crawl and leap at you while you search for their weak points.
- parry attacks with a knife instead of just getting grabbed.
- stun an enemy with a shot, then roundhouse-kick them into the crowd.
- sneak behind enemies and take them out with a silent kill.
- scavenge jewels and valuables, sell almost anything, then rebuild your weapons and upgrades chapter by chapter.
- fight a chainsaw-wielding maniac during an early village assault that turns into a full-on survival set piece.
- get thrown into a giant lake monster encounter where the water itself becomes a threat you have to respect.
7Detroit: Become Human - Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Jun 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- get a main character killed early, and the story just keeps going without them.
- open the game and have the main-menu hostess talk to you about your choices and react if you got someone killed.
- lead a robot uprising by turning workers into rebels, painting messages on walls, and choosing whether your movement stays peaceful or turns violent.
- reconstruct a crime scene from scattered clues and then interrogate a suspect with whatever story you built.
- talk your way through a hostage negotiation while every timed reply can push someone toward living or dying.
- be a housekeeper doing chores, then get yanked straight into a life-or-death escape in the same chapter.
- choose to disobey your orders to protect a child, and watch that one act reshape what your character even is.
- finish a chapter, see a branching flowchart of everything you didn't do, and replay to unlock a totally different chain of scenes.
8Doki Doki Literature Club! - The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Oct 6, 2017
In this game, you can…
- have a character break the fourth wall and address you like she knows you're at the computer.
- check the game's files for secrets as part of what the story is asking you to do.
- watch the story pretend to restart, then keep changing as it reveals it wasn't actually over.
- write poems by picking single words, each choice steering the poem toward a specific girl.
- pursue a childhood-friend romance, confess your love, and have the route end with her suicide.
- see dialogue and visuals degrade into corrupted-looking text as the game starts to fall apart.
- replay to shift who you spend time with and which poem words you pick, and uncover different storylines.
9DOOM - Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
May 12, 2016
In this game, you can…
- fire a single BFG shot that clears an entire room of demons.
- snap together and share custom maps and game modes, including editing the rules and logic behind them.
- rip a demon apart up close to instantly refill health and ammo.
- upgrade a chainsaw into your emergency ammo dispenser mid-fight.
- double-jump across vertical arenas, bait shots, and stay alive by never stopping.
- turn a basic shotgun into an explosive launcher with a mod, then keep upgrading it into a specialized tool.
- get locked in an arena while portals spawn waves of demons, and the doors only open after you wipe them all out.
- find secret rooms, hidden weapons, and even classic DOOM secret levels, then fast-travel back to grab what you missed.
10Resident Evil 2 - A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
Jan 24, 2019
In this game, you can…
- board up first-floor windows so zombies stop climbing in for good.
- walk instead of run because some enemies track you by sound, and sprinting can get you jumped.
- cripple zombies by cutting their legs with a knife, then pull that same knife back out of them to reuse it.
- be hunted through the police station by Mr. X, who can show up mid-map-check and force you to run.
- shoot enemies until limbs come off and bodies pile up physically, with other zombies stumbling over the mess.
- spin items in your inventory to reveal hidden mechanisms, turning a "key item" into something usable.
- watch rooms turn blue on the map when you've collected everything inside, so you can route-plan with confidence.
- play two campaigns where Leon and Claire get different weapons, characters, scenes, and unique final bosses.
