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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.

Best samurai games on PC and consoles: Top 30 — from Ghost of Tsushima and Sekiro to Total War: Shogun 2 and Trek to Yomi.

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 best co-op games of 2026 on PC, PS5, Xbox and Switch: shooters, survival games, horror, RPGs and two-player co-op over the network and on one screen. 280+ games to play with friends. In short, the best co-op games right now are It Takes Two, Minecraft, Helldivers 2, Baldur's Gate 3, GTA Online and Stardew Valley. The full list is broken down by genre — shooters, survival, horror, RPGs, two-player games and more — below.

Some particularly successful virtual entertainment titles leave a lasting impression not only on gamers but also on developers. When an excellent game pushes an entire genre forward, it sometimes sets trends for the industry, inspires studios, and becomes a model for imitation. This article will focus on such projects — those that have influenced many modern games.