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The best hack and slash games are all about speed, long combos, and stylish fights against swarms of enemies and towering bosses. In games the term has nothing to do with slasher horror films — here it means fast, weapon-based action where a hero with a sword, scythe, or chained blade carves through everything, racks up a style rank, and unlocks flashier moves. Enthusiasts call the purest examples character action games — the Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, and Ninja Gaiden lineage. This list gathers 40 of them across every platform, from 2000s classics to 2025's newest releases: the genre-defining legends, cinematic God of War-style adventures, Japanese and anime brawlers, and picks that run on a potato.{lscreens=926665,926664,926663,926662,926656,624019}

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt set a standard that other RPGs have spent a decade trying to match: a rich open world where every village has troubles of its own, a mature story full of difficult decisions, and a hero you actually want to play as. While we wait for the next expansion, Songs of the Past, there’s an obvious question: what else should we play? We’ve gathered 30 games like The Witcher 3, featuring dark fantasy, monster hunting, sprawling worlds, and stories shaped by your choices and their consequences.

There's a massive library of great games that run happily on a weak, low-spec PC or laptop — enough to keep you busy for years, from evergreen classics to the freshest indie hits of 2024–2026. We've gathered 107 of the best games for low-end PCs and laptops here, all running on integrated Intel HD/AMD Vega graphics, 4–8 GB of RAM, and a dual-core processor — no discrete graphics card required. Among them are Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hades 2, Slay the Spire 2, Balatro, R.E.P.O., Cuphead, and dozens of others. The games are split by genre — shooters, RPGs, strategy, survival, racing, and indie — and sorted from the newest releases to timeless classics, each with a description and system requirements. The list is updated and expanded regularly.

The strongest and most dangerous female video game characters in one Top 28 — from Bayonetta and Kerrigan to Malenia of Elden Ring and Atsu of Ghost of Yotei.

The soulslike genre owes its existence to Demon's Souls, released by FromSoftware in 2009. A PlayStation exclusive, it first earned a cult following among hardcore players in its homeland of Japan. From its core mechanics, FromSoftware's lead designer Hidetaka Miyazaki built a new game — Dark Souls — which launched a series that became iconic the world over. Soon the "soulslikes" started arriving: games that copy the Dark Souls formula of success. An entire genre was born, built on the hallmarks of Dark Souls — punishing difficulty, "bonfires" (checkpoints for saving and leveling up), enemies that respawn on a location once you die, collecting experience ("souls"), stamina management in combat, fragmentary storytelling, and — most importantly — gruelling boss fights that force you to learn every move set.

The most optimized PC games: a selection of hits that run great even on weak and mid-range hardware — with graphics settings for maximum FPS. Good optimization isn't just a post-release patch or an upscaler slapped on top of a messy render. It's the result of working with the engine: when a game runs equally smoothly on a top-end RTX 5090 and a modest three-year-old GTX 1660 Super. Only such projects made it into this list.

If you are tired of overly forgiving games where it is almost impossible to fail, this article is for you. We have put together some of the hardest games across different genres — from soulslikes and hardcore action titles to punishing survival games, roguelikes, platformers, tactical strategies, and puzzle games that truly test your reflexes, patience, attentiveness, and ability to stay calm under pressure.

Games about Vikings and Norse mythology are consistently in high demand. This is hardly surprising, as the captivating atmosphere of cold fjords, raw brutality, and the profound connection between man and nature never fails to impress. Furthermore, one must not overlook the rich pantheon of gods who, according to ancient legends and tales, constantly intervened in the destinies of mortals. We have decided to compile a TOP 15 list of excellent Viking games and myths that will be worth playing in 2026. And yes, let us clarify right away: The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim will not be featured here. Because one should not confuse Vikings with fictional northerners.

April 15 is a funny holiday — Bald Men's Day. In honor of this event, we decided to remember the most colorful video game heroes who have no hair or a noticeable bald spot on their heads.