The Best Hack-and-slash Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 3

Update : Bendy: Lone Wolf added at rank #11.
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Hot Blood (2024)

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IOS iPhone Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Take down zombies as a deadly cutie in 3D low-poly style! Hot Blood is physics-based brawling fun inspired by action movies of the 80s & 90s.


  • beat-em-up
  • hack-and-slash
  • zombies
  • 3d
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • open-world
  • gore
  • funny
  • blood
  • violent
  • colourful
  • fight
  • soundtrack

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Fractured (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

Fractured is a side scroll action game focused on boss battles. As the hero, you take on different boss fights from underground monsters to fighting dragons. Learn from each fight to gain to skill necessary to take down epic monsters.

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  • 2.5d
  • precision
  • scroller
  • hack-and-slash
  • platform
  • multiple-endings
  • rpg
  • third-best-selling
  • anime
  • fantasy
  • atmospheric
  • increasingly-difficult
  • weather
  • instagram
  • difficult

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Samurai Bringer (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows

Samurai Bringer is a roguelite action game with levels which change with every playthrough, where you cut down hordes of Samurai and Demons to collect combat techniques and polish your fighting style in order to defeat Yamata-no-Orochi, the eight-headed dragon of Japanese mythology.


  • rogue-like
  • hack-and-slash
  • character
  • 2.5d
  • dungeon-crawler
  • mythology
  • lore
  • customization
  • action
  • isometric
  • action-adventure
  • top-down
  • ninja
  • procedural

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Jitsu Squad (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows

Jitsu Squad is a four-player co-op fighting game inspired by the Marvel vs Capcom series. The players take on the role of four heroes on a mission to thwart an evil sorcerer’s ambitions and retrieve a powerful demon's soul stone. With beautiful hand-drawn visuals and an over-the-top chop socky soundtrack, this game will have you feeling like you're playing in one of your favorite Saturday morning cartoons.


What we like:
  • Varied characters
  • Super transformations and screen filling super attacks
  • Visually stunning graphics
  • Entertaining soundtrack
  • Variety of enemies and bosses
What could be improved:
  • Difficulty distinguishing between characters in multiplayer mode
  • Limited number of puzzles
  • Not difficult even at the end

  • ninja
  • beat-em-up
  • 1990s
  • scroller
  • cooperative
  • hack-and-slash
  • fight
  • character
  • swordplay
  • 2d
  • comedy
  • superhero
  • old-school
  • retro
  • linear

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Monster Girls and the Mysterious Adventure 2 (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

This is a "Mysterious Dungeon" style roguelike game where the terrain changes with each challenge. Make the monsters your "Friends" and go on a new adventure!


  • rogue-like
  • traditional
  • hack-and-slash
  • dungeon
  • mystery
  • turn-based
  • procedural
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • rpg
  • tactical

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SAMURAI WARRIORS: Spirit of Sanada (2016)

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PC Windows vita Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 3

Struggle for survival. Death before surrender! Experience the dramatic story and epic, action-packed battles of the Sanada clan during Japan's Warring States period.

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  • hack-and-slash
  • battle
  • historical
  • fight
  • action
  • combat
  • combo
  • cooperative
  • ninja
  • narrative

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MARS 2120 (2024)

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j PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X

Metroidvania with a mix of melee and ranged combats inspired by classics like Super Metroid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night or Guacamelee! Help Anna “Thirteen” Charlotte battle her way through the secrets of Mars.


  • mars
  • metroidvania
  • 2.5d
  • hack-and-slash
  • nonlinear
  • space
  • pve
  • scroller
  • character
  • futuristic
  • atmospheric
  • platform
  • action

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Morkull Ragast's Rage (2025)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

A 2D video game that combines platforming and action with a touch of exploration in which we control Morkull, God of death and darkness and lord of the Ragast, whose main mechanics lies in the breaking of the fourth wall, which will allow Morkull to communicate with the player in various ways.


  • 2d
  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • cartoony
  • nonlinear
  • hack-and-slash
  • comic
  • hand-drawn
  • scroller
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • book
  • fantasy
  • controller-support

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Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time (2020)

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Become Samurai Jack, the greatest warrior across time. Journey through time to finally stop Aku’s evil reign in this new adventure told by the creators of Samurai Jack.

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  • hack-and-slash
  • action-adventure
  • quick-action
  • combat
  • sword
  • action
  • adventure
  • platform
  • non-combat
  • character
  • non-player
  • souls
  • must-play
  • battle
  • skill

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SONOKUNI (2025)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Battle your way through a biopunk and Japanese mythology-inspired landscape filled with over-the-top, hip hop-infused 2D action. A single hit means death, but use your time-bending skills to take down your oppressors and you might yet save your dying nation.


  • transhumanism
  • cyberpunk
  • hack-and-slash
  • dystopian
  • psychedelic
  • futuristic
  • top-down
  • pixel
  • historical
  • sci-fi
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • atmospheric
  • aliens
  • tactical

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