The Best Hack-and-slash Games

Update : Bendy: Lone Wolf added at rank #1.
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Bendy: Lone Wolf (2025)

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

Bendy: Lone Wolf™ will tests your ability to survive against ever increasing odds. Monsters and obstacles emerge from every direction as you journey into the rubberhose halls of the world's most evil animation studio. Every day is a challenge.

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  • rogue-like
  • horror
  • perma-death
  • hack-and-slash
  • thriller
  • action-adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • psychological
  • top-down
  • dark
  • cartoony
  • atmospheric
  • survival
  • mystery
  • story

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Shades of Rayna (2025)

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PC Windows

Shades of Rayna is a free to play and early access ARPG with lots of loot and endless gameplay content.

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  • top-down
  • archery
  • dungeon-crawler
  • hack-and-slash
  • action-adventure
  • action
  • mining
  • loot
  • exploration
  • 3d
  • crafting
  • rpg
  • adventure
  • shooter

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Lynked: Banner of the Spark (2025)

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j Xbox Series X/s PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X

Build a bright new world alongside a band of rescued robot buddies! In this colorful action RPG, battle waves of enemies in solo or co-op, then return home and use their parts to craft a thriving town. Assemble your crew and grow stronger with each new adventure!

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  • rogue-like
  • dungeon-crawler
  • hack-and-slash
  • building
  • life
  • crafting
  • rpg
  • robots
  • action
  • customization
  • action-adventure
  • colourful
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • character

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The Slormancer (2025)

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PC Windows

The Slormancer is a 2D Action-RPG Dungeon Crawling game where you play as a Knight, Huntress, or Mage. You must master hundreds of abilities and ancestral powers, gear up, and fight against hordes of enemies led by The Slormancer. With shiny loot, collectibles, frenetic gameplay, and pixel art, this game will have you hooked for countless hours of content. With a deep story, unique weapons, and endless quests for epic loot, every playthrough is different. Don't miss out on this epic adventure!


What we like:
  • Surprisingly addictive rogue-like feel ARPG
  • Well thought out and implemented game
  • Polished and exceedingly pleasant early access game
  • Constantly updating and improving by the developers
  • Wide range of build possibilities
What could be improved:
  • Repetition in maps and levels
  • Too much grind with not enough payoff
  • Controller issues in menus
  • Demoralizing legendary effect that didn't work
  • Absence of certain features like influence

  • arpg
  • loot
  • hack-and-slash
  • pixel
  • rpg
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action
  • class
  • isometric
  • top-down
  • action-adventure
  • soundtrack
  • 2d
  • farming

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Kenix and the Cat King (2025)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Android

Play as the Cat King the funniest and smartest of cats! Save the city from the Dog King's crazy plan to turn your home town into DOGVILLE! Team up using cats special abilities! Learn magic from Azumi the Cat Witch! Meet strange and funny characters! Battle dog troops and even stranger enemies!


  • cats
  • rpg
  • hack-and-slash
  • comic
  • cute
  • action-adventure
  • anime
  • funny
  • top-down
  • comedy
  • colourful
  • book
  • family-friendly
  • magic
  • casual

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Tower of Kalemonvo (2025)

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PC Windows

Crawl to the top of the TOWER OF KALEMONVO, a hardcore isometric ARPG with randomly generated levels meant for fans of slower paced action games. Fight cultists and monsters, scavenge for magical loot, learn powerful spells and fully customize your stats and skills!

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  • loot
  • gothic
  • dungeon-crawler
  • hack-and-slash
  • isometric
  • fantasy
  • survival-horror
  • demons
  • rpg
  • pve
  • dark
  • old-school
  • magic
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure

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LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 (2025)

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PC Windows

LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 is a cooperative slasher action game, a high–quality continuation of the SENSATIONAL first part. Insidious lizards attacked the lands of the Rus again. HYPERBOREA is on fire and only the GLORIOUS HEROES can lick the invaders from their homeland.

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  • campaign
  • spectacle
  • historical
  • cooperative
  • arts
  • cinematic
  • hack-and-slash
  • martial
  • dinosaurs
  • conspiracy
  • action-adventure
  • alternate
  • swordplay
  • third-person
  • realistic

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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.

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

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Broad Sword (2025)

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PC Windows

Broad Sword is a formation based third-person tactical hack and slash game where you lead formations of troops to face off against a variety of factions in a fantasy realm. Engage in class-based combat as you defeat your foes in conquest, siege and campaign modes.

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  • hack-and-slash
  • class
  • wargame
  • sandbox
  • fantasy
  • pve
  • medieval
  • pvp
  • military
  • funny
  • physics
  • war
  • third-person
  • team
  • tactical

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RoboSamurai (2025)

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PC Windows

RoboSamurai is a 3rd-person fast-paced sword-fighting action/slasher game about Nix: a robot mechanic turned katana-wielding fighter. Set in a cyberpunk dystopian city filled with corruption and tyrannical corporations waiting for him to let his guard down.

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  • comic
  • cyberpunk
  • hack-and-slash
  • dystopian
  • hacking
  • 3d
  • book
  • third-person
  • action-adventure
  • lgbtq
  • futuristic
  • platform
  • robots
  • stylized
  • sci-fi

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