The Best Swordplay Games for Xbox One

Update : Onimusha 2: Samurai\'s Destiny added at rank #1.
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Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny (2025)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Reclaim your destiny. Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny returns with higher resolution graphics and modernised controls to perform issen critical counter attacks and intense swordplay. Experience this dramatic revenge story set in Feudal Japan.


  • demons
  • swordplay
  • action-adventure
  • ninja
  • survival-horror
  • hack-and-slash
  • historical
  • action
  • story
  • cinematic
  • romance
  • puzzle
  • combat
  • fight
  • dark

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Kalinur (2023)

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

Defeat the mage Kalinur and bring peace back to the kingdom in this mini metroidvania with a lot of action.


  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • swordplay
  • retro
  • fantasy
  • platform
  • demons
  • pixel
  • dark
  • adventure
  • exploration
  • medieval
  • action
  • nonlinear

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Naraka: Bladepoint (2021)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Xbox One

Dive into the legends of the Far East in NARAKA: BLADEPOINT; team up with friends in fast-paced melee fights for a Battle Royale experience unlike any other. Find your playstyle with a varied cast of heroes with unique skills. More than 20 million players have already joined the fray, play free now!


  • royale
  • parkour
  • martial
  • fight
  • battle
  • arts
  • swordplay
  • multiplayer
  • customization
  • character
  • pvp
  • hack-and-slash
  • mmo
  • combat

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Sclash (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox One

Sclash is a plug’n play 2D samurai fighting game full of tension where one hit is enough to kill. Play as a hand-drawn samurai in beautiful painted settings and fight your opponent in epic solemn duels where each move matters. Manage well your stamina, breath and take your time to land a deadly hit.


  • fight
  • arts
  • spectacle
  • swordplay
  • martial
  • hand-drawn
  • 2d
  • 2.5d
  • character
  • pvp
  • multiplayer
  • stylized
  • customization
  • scroller
  • anime

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The Vale (2021)

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Xbox One PC Windows

CLOSE YOUR EYES. BECOME A WARRIOR: Feel your enemy’s rasping breath; a foot shifts on swampy ground; the crack of steel on wooden shield. The Vale is an audio based action adventure that sets out to breathe new life into medieval combat and fantasy narrative.


  • swordplay
  • action-adventure
  • hunting
  • medieval
  • rpg
  • magic
  • story
  • immersive
  • fantasy
  • combat
  • experimental
  • first-person
  • cube
  • 3d
  • audio

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Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream (2024)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5

In this online co-op action game, enter a distorted version of the SWORD ART ONLINE world. Pick your role in the form of favorite SWORD ART ONLINE characters and team up with 20 players for raids to defeat powerful enemies.


  • cooperative
  • rpg
  • multiplayer
  • tps
  • action
  • hack-and-slash
  • anime
  • swordplay
  • magic
  • casual
  • online
  • 3d
  • boss
  • character
  • pve

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Unsouled (2021)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X/s Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Unsouled is a 2D action RPG game requiring immense elaborate control. Take a break from repetitive attack and dodge action by challenging yourself with the world of Unsouled.


  • souls
  • swordplay
  • pve
  • 2d
  • post-apocalyptic
  • rpg
  • top-down
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • stylized
  • zombies
  • controller-support
  • atmospheric
  • difficult
  • fight

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Clone Drone in the Danger Zone (2017)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Mac OS

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.


  • robots
  • arena
  • battle-royale
  • swordplay
  • fight
  • voxel
  • cooperative
  • rogue-like
  • humor
  • 3d
  • futuristic
  • multiplayer
  • third-person
  • funny
  • comedy

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COGEN: Sword of Rewind (2022)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows Xbox Series X

Rewind, rethink, redo. COGEN is a brand-new kind of 2D action game where there's no time for death.


  • manipulation
  • 2d
  • dynamic
  • swordplay
  • futuristic
  • time
  • tutorial
  • attack
  • score
  • scroller
  • platform
  • narration
  • action-adventure
  • sci-fi
  • action

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Panzer Paladin (2020)

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Linux Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows

The game consists of 17 levels, during which players take control of either the slow but powerful Paladin mech Grit or the small but swift Squire pilot Flame. When commanding Grit, the player can pick up discarded melee weapons dropped by defeated enemies and use them in battle against them. The combat mechanics include a high-versus-low attacking and blocking system (similar to Zelda II), along with a rock-paper-scissors style weapon triangle system that grants your weapons damage bonuses or reductions depending on the weapon used by the enemy.[4][5][6]


  • mech
  • swordplay
  • demons
  • platform
  • retro
  • pixel
  • anime
  • 2d
  • old-school
  • 1980s
  • mythology
  • boss
  • hack-and-slash
  • hockey
  • battle

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