The Best Swordplay Games for Xbox One

Update 30 December 2023: Die by the Blade added at rank #15.

Here are our 10 Best Swordplay Games for Xbox One:

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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Play Video: COGEN: Sword of Rewind

Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

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

• manipulation
• dynamic
• 2d
• souls
• swordplay
• time
• tutorial
• attack
• score
• metroidvania
• scroller
• futuristic
• narration
• mech
• platform

Good match + 2 Bad match - 4

Play Video: Clone Drone in the Danger Zone

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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Play Video: Shing!

PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS

Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!

• beat-em-up
• demons
• cooperative
• ninja
• fight
• rogue-like
• swordplay
• hack-and-slash
• 2.5d
• spectacle
• scroller
• character
• side-scrolling
• colourful
• arcade

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Play Video: The Vale

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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Play Video: Unsouled

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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Play Video: Wanted: Dead

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

Wanted: Dead is a new hybrid slasher/shooter from the makers of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive. The game follows a week in life of the Zombie Unit, an elite Hong Kong police squad on a mission to uncover a major corporate conspiracy.

• shooter
• cover
• hack-and-slash
• action-inclined
• half-animal
• anime-driven
• swordplay
• rpg
• conspiracy
• kong
• cyberpunk
• anime
• narrative
• rhythm-game
• straight-faced

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Play Video: Sword Art Online: Last Recollection

Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows

The culmination of the SWORD ART ONLINE game series, Last Recollection features the largest roster of SAO playable characters and sub scenarios!

• rpg
• japanese
• anime
• swordplay
• artificial
• intelligence
• party
• character
• pve
• jrpg
• futuristic
• action-adventure
• battle
• third-person
• customization

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Play Video: Bot Gaiden

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

Bot Gaiden is a vibrant 2D platformer built for speed. Take control of ninjabots Robyu and Bytron as they seek to recover the golden skulls from the hands of the mysterious Giorqio and his band of hench-bots. Race to the finish, because bosses get stronger with time.

• comic
• swordplay
• nonlinear
• cartoony
• 2d
• scroller
• hack-and-slash
• ninja
• platform
• book
• action-adventure
• colourful
• hand-drawn
• family-friendly
• robots

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Play Video: Heidelberg 1693

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

Black magic in the age of pike and shot! Reload your musket after every blast in “Heidelberg 1693”, a challenging 2D action adventure set in a dark and twisted vision of Germany in the late 17th century.

• platform
• 2d
• horror
• swordplay
• historical
• alternate
• arcade
• dark
• pixel
• fantasy
• medieval
• zombies
• gore
• scroller
• old-school

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