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Deadhaus Sonata - a game in the Slasher genre

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Slasher, Indie, Dungeons

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2026

Steam: 70/100

Deadhaus Sonata is a free-to-play action RPG with a third-person view from the creator of Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. The main character in the game is an undead...

Torchlight 3

Role-playing game, Online, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op), Slasher

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 October 2020

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 51/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Torchlight 3 is the continuation of the popular Torchlight series. The new part will offer you a world where players can team up to explore dungeons and fight...

Onimusha: Warlords

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Slasher

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 15 January 2019

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Onimusha: Warlords is a third-person action-adventure game set in 16th century Japan. A mysterious creature kidnaps Princess Yuki, whom the young hero Samanosuke...

BloodRayne 2: Terminal Cut

Adventure, Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Horror

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 November 2021

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 77/100

BloodRayne 2: Terminal Cut is an updated version of the action-adventure slasher BloodRayne 2. The original game has received support for modern gamepads and...

Trek to Yomi

Action, Adventure, Side view, Slasher, Historical

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 January 2023

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 71/100

A black and white action adventure in the style of ancient Japan. The main character is a fearless warrior who fights supernatural forces. Young Hiroki swore to the...

God Eater 3

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic, Slasher

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 July 2019

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 72/100

God Eater 3 is a continuation of the action role-playing game with a third-person view in the God Eater universe. The universe of these games tells about the brutal...

Gundam Breaker 4

Action, Shooter, Combat robots, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Slasher

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 August 2024

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 78/100

The player creates his mech from a large number of parts. Battles with opponents take place in online or single-player modes. In this part, you can use two...

Bayonetta 2

Action, Slasher, Third-person view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 February 2018

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 92/100

A third-person action slasher and sequel to Bayonetta, centered on large-scale battles against angels and demonic creatures. Its fights unfold amid fast-moving set...

Persona 5 Strikers

Action, Hack and slash, Slasher, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 23 February 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Persona 5 Strikers is a spin-off of Persona 5, continuing the story of the Joker and the Phantom Thieves of Hearts and incorporating mechanics from the Dynasty...

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed

Action, Roguelike, Side view, Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 February 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed is a hardcore side-scrolling action slasher expansion inspired by the Dark Souls series. Two new locations await you, in which there will...

RemiLore: Lost Girl in the Lands of Lore

Action, Anime / Manga, Slasher

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 February 2019

Steam: 56/100

Metacritic: 61/100

An anime-style adventure set in a colorful world, combining hack-and-slash combat and magic attacks with roguelite elements. The player fights enemies using Lore’s...

Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time

Action, Platformer, Slasher, Arcade, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 August 2020

Players: 9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is a colorful platformer based on the animated series “Samurai Jack”. The events of the new slasher take place before the final...

Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land

Adventure, Action, Exploration, Third-person view, Slasher, Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Open world, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 March 2025

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 79/100

The story of the journey in which Yumi and her companions are faced with their own memories and continue to go forward, despite the tests. The world of the game is...

Blade of Darkness

Adventure, Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Fantasy, Role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 November 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

Re-release of the classic action-slasher Blade of Darkness (2001), originally released in 2001. The game features support for widescreen monitors and resolutions...

Afterimage

Metroidvania, Side view, Action, Slasher, Adventure, Anime / Manga

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 April 2023

Players: 9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Side view game with non-linear levels. A girl named Renee survived an attack on her home village, but lost her memory. Now she is trying to regain her memories and...

Wizard of Legend 2

Action, Isometric, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Fantasy, Slasher

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2026

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 53/100

Players once again take on the role of powerful wizards using Arcana — spells that combine to create powerful attacks and defenses. The game has retained its...

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate

DLC, Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Anime / Manga

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 February 2020

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate is an improved and expanded edition of the exciting action-slasher game with a third-person view in the Japanese style. The game once...

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4

Action, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Adventure, Slasher, Fighting

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 March 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 73/100

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 is a third-person fighting adventure game in the One Piece series. You can expect to meet familiar characters from popular anime...

Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition

Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 20 February 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 53/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition is a continuation of the popular series of action-adventure slasher games with a third-person...

Army of Ruin

Top-down view, Action, Shooter, Roguelike, Fantasy, Indie, Exploration, Slasher

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 June 2023

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 88/100

A dynamic action game in which players lead legendary heroes on a campaign against the hordes of evil. As you progress, you can collect a deadly arsenal, capable of...

Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle

Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Anime / Manga

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 4 July 2019

Players: 6.1/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle is a stand-alone add-on for the dynamic action slasher game with a third-person view Attack on Titan 2. Along with the add-on, new...

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 20 November 2020

Metacritic: 78/100

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity — an action-adventure hack-and-slash game with a third-person perspective. The story will tell about events that took place 100...

Have a Nice Death

Arcade, Side view, Action, Platformer, Roguelike, Slasher, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 March 2023

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The main character is the mortally bored director Death, whose subordinates have completely lost their shores and turned the balance of the coming and going of...

Bendy: Lone Wolf

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Roguelike, Slasher

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 15 August 2025

Players: 7/10

Steam: 84/100

Boris ventures deep into the endlessly generated corridors of the Joey Drew studio. To survive, you will have to collect supplies and weapons, and also escape from...

BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites

Arcade, Side view, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Slasher, Platformer, Horror, Anime / Manga

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 September 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 60/100

BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites — remaster of the dynamic side-scrolling slasher BloodRayne Betrayal, where the main character, the seductive half-breed Rayne...

Moonscars

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Slasher, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 September 2022

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Moonscars is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. Under the dark moonlight, the fierce clay warrior Gray Irma fights, driven by a lonely goal: to find the...

Realm of Ink

Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Roguelike, Fantasy, Slasher, Role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 May 2026

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Adventure action-roguelike in the spirit of Hades, but based on Chinese mythology for its lore. The game offers several characters to choose from, which need to...

Diablo 2: Resurrected — Reign of the Warlock

Role-playing game, Action, DLC, Slasher, Hack and slash, Isometric, Fantasy, Demons, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 February 2026

The expansion returns to the dark world of Sanctuary, where the forces of the Abyss begin to gain power once again. The familiar campaign retains the atmosphere of...

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Slasher, Dungeons

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 20 July 2022

Players: 6/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 is a top-down fantasy action RPG that will take gamers into the fantasy world of Forgotten Realms from the Dungeons & Dragons board...

The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story

Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy, Top-down view, Slasher

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 April 2023

Players: 4/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 79/100

In the kingdom of Demacia, mage hunters hunt people with magical gifts under the pretext of protecting ordinary people. They are forced into hiding, persecuted...

Slave Zero X

Side view, Beat them all, Platformer, Action, Futurism (Future), Old school, Slasher, Cyberpunk, Horror

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 February 2024

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This is a prequel to the original Slave Zero, released in 1999. The game's events take place five years before the events shown in the first part. Megacity S1-9...

No Straight Roads

Action, Adventure, Slasher, Music game, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Exploration

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 August 2020

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 71/100

No Straight Roads is a musical action-slasher game with a third-person view. The game tells the story of an independent rock band that goes up against a powerful...

There Is No Light

Action, Indie, Slasher, Post-apocalyptic, Fantasy, Horror

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 November 2023

Steam: 72/100

There is No Light is a hardcore action-adventure slasher film set in a dark fantasy setting. After a global catastrophe, humanity was forced to move underground. In...

Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny Remastered

Action, Adventure, Slasher, Third-person view, Fantasy, Medieval era, Demons, Survival horror, Historical

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 23 May 2025

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 76/100

The story unfolds around the young sword master Jubei Yagyu, who returns to his hometown only to find the ashes left by the demon army of Nobunaga Oda. This event...

Saviorless

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy, Indie, Slasher

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 2 April 2024

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A dark action-platformer in which two main characters try to escape the cursed lands known as the Smiling Isles. The main characters realize that they are inside...

Lost Ruins

Arcade, Side view, Anime / Manga, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Slasher, Adventure, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 June 2022

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Lost Ruins is a hardcore side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with a retro theme. The girl wakes up in the twilight of the dungeon. She doesn't remember...

Asterix & Obelix XXXL: The Ram From Hibernia

Arcade, Isometric, Action, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op), Slasher, Comics

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 October 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 45/100

Asterix & Obelix XXXL: The Ram From Hibernia is a co-op action-adventure game with an isometric camera view, where the Romans will once again experience the power...

Turnip Boy Robs a Bank

Adventure, Slasher, Roguelike, Top-down view, Comedy, Indie, Action

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 January 2024

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A pixel game about Repchik from Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, who plans to rob a bank. You'll have to confront guards and other enemies, get crazy new weapons...

BloodRayne: Definitive Collection

Action, Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Third-person view, Collection, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 July 2026

This edition brings together three updated games from the legendary Rayne vampire series: BloodRayne: Revamped, BloodRayne 2: Revamped, and BloodRayne Betrayal...

Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends

Action, DLC, Slasher, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 December 2018

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends is an improved and expanded edition of the dynamic slasher Dynasty Warriors 8 about medieval confrontations in Asia. The plot is...

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