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Top Violent Games

60+ violent games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Action, Gore, Singleplayer, Multiplayer.

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  1. #1 People Playground
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 308,374 reviews2019
    Developer: mestiezPublisher: Studio Minus
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.9hMean: 53.6h≥1hr: 84%

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

  2. #2 DOOM Eternal
    98% matchVery Positive91% of 213,495 reviews2020
    Developer: id SoftwarePublisher: Bethesda Softworks
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 11.1hMean: 30.3h≥1hr: 90%

    Hell’s armies have invaded Earth. Become the Slayer in an epic single-player campaign to conquer demons across dimensions and stop the final destruction of humanity. The only thing they fear... is you.

  3. #3 POSTAL 2
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 130,845 reviews2012
    Developer: Running With Scissors
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 4.2hMean: 16.8h≥1hr: 85%

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

  4. #4 Hotline Miami
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 121,152 reviews2012
    Developer: Dennaton GamesPublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.4hMean: 10.4h≥1hr: 86%

    Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.

  5. #5 Mortal Kombat 11
    98% matchVery Positive88% of 112,808 reviews2019
    Developer: NetherRealm StudiosPublisher: Warner Bros. Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 8.0hMean: 44.6h≥1hr: 89%

    Mortal Kombat is back and better than ever in the next evolution of the iconic franchise.

  6. #6 Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
    98% matchVery Positive94% of 76,956 reviews2015
    Developer: Dennaton GamesPublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 6.2hMean: 18.1h≥1hr: 78%

    Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.

  7. #7 Mortal Kombat X
    98% matchVery Positive86% of 58,945 reviews2015
    Developer: NetherRealm StudiosPublisher: Warner Bros. Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.8hMean: 38.5h≥1hr: 89%

    Experience the Next Generation of the #1 Fighting Franchise. Mortal Kombat X combines unparalleled, cinematic presentation with all new gameplay.

  8. #8 Hatred
    98% matchVery Positive84% of 27,558 reviews2015
    Developer: Destructive Creations
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 3.2hMean: 17.8h≥1hr: 80%

    Hatred is a violent twin-stick shooter, in which you take the role of The Antagonist fighting against all of humanity.

  9. #9 Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™
    97% matchVery Positive89% of 114,034 reviews2017
    Developer: Monolith ProductionsPublisher: WB Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 14.4hMean: 37.3h≥1hr: 92%

    Experience an epic open-world brought to life by the award-winning Nemesis System. Forge a new Ring of Power, conquer Fortresses in massive battles and dominate Mordor with your personal orc army in Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™.

  10. #10 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
    96% matchVery Positive81% of 48,106 reviews2017
    Developer: MachineGamesPublisher: Bethesda Softworks
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.7hMean: 17.9h≥1hr: 91%

    America, 1961. The assassination of Nazi General Deathshead was a short-lived victory. The Nazis maintain their stranglehold on the world. You are BJ Blazkowicz, aka “Terror-Billy,” member of the Resistance, scourge of the Nazi empire, and humanity’s last hope for liberty.

  11. #11 Mortal Kombat 1
    96% matchMostly Positive72% of 44,891 reviews2023
    Developer: NetherRealm StudiosPublisher: Warner Bros. Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12.8hMean: 49.8h≥1hr: 94%

    Discover a reborn Mortal Kombat™ Universe created by the Fire God Liu Kang. Mortal Kombat™ 1 ushers in a new era of the iconic franchise with a new fighting system, game modes, and fatalities!

  12. #12 Mafia III: Definitive Edition
    96% matchMixed57% of 62,079 reviews2020
    Developer: Hangar 13Publisher: 2K
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 7.7hMean: 33.5h≥1hr: 90%

    After Lincoln Clay's surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and killed by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family and blazes a path of revenge through the Mafioso responsible.

  13. #13 Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
    96% matchVery Positive83% of 65,320 reviews2012
    Developer: Torn Banner Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.3hMean: 25.4h≥1hr: 87%

    Besiege castles and raid villages in Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, a fast-paced medieval first person slasher with a focus on multiplayer battles

  14. #14 Blade and Sorcery
    95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 60,681 reviews2024
    Developer: WarpFrog
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.9hMean: 23.8h≥1hr: 84%

    Blade & Sorcery is a built-for-VR medieval fantasy with full physics driven melee, ranged and magic combat. Become a powerful warrior, ranger or sorcerer and devastate your enemies.

  15. #15 Killing Floor
    95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 68,364 reviews2009
    Developer: Tripwire Interactive
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.1hMean: 47.6h≥1hr: 86%

    6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!

  16. #16 Blasphemous
    95% matchVery Positive90% of 62,190 reviews2019
    Developer: The Game KitchenPublisher: Team17
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.4hMean: 11.0h≥1hr: 79%

    Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.

  17. #17 We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port]
    95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,443 reviews2019
    Developer: Mismatch Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles

  18. #18 Blood Trail
    94% matchVery Positive81% of 7,103 reviews2019
    Developer: Electrovore
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.4hMean: 7.2h≥1hr: 72%

    You are Wendigo. A hard-hearted contract killer tasked with annihilating a fanatical cult. With your trusted arsenal at the ready, experience what has been called "The most violent game in VR". EARLY ACCESS includes RAID, ARENA and SANDBOX modes with a story campaign and much more on the way.

  19. #19 HITMAN World of Assassination
    94% matchVery Positive87% of 61,391 reviews2022
    Developer: IO Interactive A/S
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 6.8hMean: 39.8h≥1hr: 81%

    Enter the world of the ultimate assassin. HITMAN World of Assassination delivers the definitive stealth action experience, putting you in the shoes of Agent 47, a master assassin. Explore immersive locations, uncover hidden secrets, and eliminate targets with complete freedom of approach.

  20. #20 Outlast 2
    94% matchVery Positive91% of 62,280 reviews2017
    Developer: Red Barrels
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 16.8h≥1hr: 85%

    Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.

  21. #21 Paint the Town Red
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 31,698 reviews2021
    Developer: South East Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 6.1hMean: 17.6h≥1hr: 89%

    Paint the Town Red is a chaotic first person melee combat game set in different locations and time periods. The voxel-based enemies can be punched, bashed, kicked, stabbed and sliced completely dynamically using almost anything that isn't nailed down.

  22. #22 Ghostrunner
    94% matchVery Positive91% of 65,586 reviews2020
    Developer: One More LevelPublisher: 505 Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 17.8h≥1hr: 86%

    Ghostrunner offers a unique single-player experience: fast-paced, violent combat, and an original setting that blends science fiction with post-apocalyptic themes. It tells the story of a world that has already ended and its inhabitants who fight to survive.

  23. #23 DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part Two
    94% matchMixed60% of 5,386 reviews2021
    Developer: id SoftwarePublisher: Bethesda Softworks
    Platforms: Windows

    The Ancient Gods – Part Two is the epic conclusion to the DOOM Slayer’s Saga and the second campaign expansion to the critically acclaimed DOOM Eternal.

  24. #24 Manhunt
    93% matchMostly Positive71% of 8,700 reviews2008
    Developer: Rockstar NorthPublisher: Rockstar Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 36mMean: 19.3h≥1hr: 41%

    You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.

  25. #25 My Friend Pedro
    92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 28,167 reviews2019
    Developer: DeadToast EntertainmentPublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.7hMean: 5.9h≥1hr: 67%

    My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.

  26. #26 GoreBox
    92% matchVery Positive88% of 21,831 reviews2023
    Developer: Felix FilipPublisher: F²Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.9hMean: 46.3h≥1hr: 88%

    GoreBox is a chaotic physics-driven sandbox where creativity meets destruction. Use the Reality Crusher to spawn, manipulate, and obliterate anything. Customize, battle with friends, roleplay, or face devious creatures. In this world, your imagination rules—and chaos is your playground!

  27. #27 CARRION
    90% matchVery Positive95% of 30,368 reviews2020
    Developer: Phobia Game StudioPublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.1hMean: 6.7h≥1hr: 82%

    CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.

  28. #28 GORN
    90% matchVery Positive94% of 8,197 reviews2019
    Developer: Free LivesPublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.9hMean: 6.3h≥1hr: 63%

    GORN is a ludicrously violent VR gladiator simulator, made by Free Lives, the developers of Broforce and Genital Jousting.

  29. #29 Call of Duty®: Warzone™
    90% matchMostly Negative31% of 49,470 reviews2022
    Developer: Infinity WardPublisher: Activision
    Platforms: Windows

    Welcome to Call of Duty®: Warzone™, the massive free-to-play combat arena. Experience thrilling modes & new gameplay features in Verdansk and Rebirth Island.

  30. #30 Trepang2
    88% matchVery Positive93% of 17,481 reviews2023
    Developer: Trepang StudiosPublisher: Team17
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.1hMean: 7.9h≥1hr: 86%

    Become the ultimate badass in Trepang2: A gory, action-packed FPS set in the near future. Unleash all hell on your enemies, dodge bullets and leave a trail of destruction in this hardcore and frenetic shooter.

  31. #31 Party Hard
    88% matchVery Positive90% of 12,288 reviews2015
    Developer: Pinokl GamesPublisher: tinyBuild
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.6hMean: 8.9h≥1hr: 85%

    It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

  32. #32 Mafia II: Definitive Edition
    88% matchMostly Positive74% of 36,305 reviews2020
    Developer: Hangar 13Publisher: 2K
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.4hMean: 22.1h≥1hr: 79%

    War hero Vito Scaletta becomes entangled with the mob in hopes of paying his father’s debts. Vito works to prove himself, climbing the family ladder with crimes of larger reward and consequence.

  33. #33 Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition
    87% matchVery Positive89% of 9,268 reviews2017
    Developer: People Can FlyPublisher: Gearbox Publishing
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 8.5h≥1hr: 87%

    Step into the boots of Grayson Hunt after a crash landing on an old resort planet forces him to make a hard choice: survival or revenge. Execute masterful kills with Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition’s unique combat system that rewards you for performing the most creative and deadly kills imaginable.

  34. #34 THE QUIET MAN™
    88% matchMostly Negative37% of 691 reviews2018
    Developer: Square Enix
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.4hMean: 4.9h≥1hr: 86%

    THE QUIET MAN™ delivers an immersive story driven cinematic action experience seamlessly blending high-production live action, realistic CG and pulse-pounding action gameplay.

  35. #35 Maneater
    87% matchVery Positive87% of 23,960 reviews2021
    Developer: Tripwire Interactive
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.1hMean: 12.8h≥1hr: 86%

    Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas - a giant Shark! Terrorize the coastal waterways. Tear swimmers and divers limb from limb, give the humans a reason to fear you!

  36. #36 Fear & Hunger
    87% matchVery Positive94% of 21,050 reviews2019
    Developer: Miro HaverinenPublisher: Happy Paintings
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.3hMean: 11.1h≥1hr: 73%

    Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.

  37. #37 Prototype 2
    87% matchMostly Positive77% of 15,600 reviews2012
    Developer: Radical EntertainmentPublisher: Activision
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 8.3hMean: 21.9h≥1hr: 77%

    Become the ultimate shape-shifting weapon!

  38. #38 Wolfenstein: Youngblood
    88% matchMixed43% of 15,495 reviews2019
    Developer: MachineGamesPublisher: Bethesda Softworks
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.7hMean: 13.9h≥1hr: 80%

    Wolfenstein: Youngblood is the first modern co-op Wolfenstein adventure. Team up with a friend or play solo as one of BJ Blazkowicz’s twin daughters and wield a powerful arsenal of new weapons, gadgets, and abilities to liberate Paris from the Nazis.

  39. #39 Wasteland 3
    86% matchVery Positive85% of 21,899 reviews2020
    Developer: inXile Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.7hMean: 25.9h≥1hr: 91%

    Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.

  40. #40 DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One
    87% matchMixed67% of 6,370 reviews2020
    Developer: id SoftwarePublisher: Bethesda Softworks
    Platforms: Windows

    The Ancient Gods – Part One is the first campaign expansion for the critically acclaimed DOOM Eternal.

  41. #41 Bush Hockey League
    87% matchMixed68% of 262 reviews2017
    Developer: V7 Entertainment Inc.
    Platforms: Windows

    Aggressive hockey is back! Experience hockey the way it was meant to be played in this old school arcade style hockey game where blood on the ice is just another day at the rink. Big moustaches, no helmets, dirty hits, bench-clearing brawls, goalie fights, and stick fights – that’s Bush Hockey League.

  42. #42 Serious Sam 4
    85% matchVery Positive83% of 17,240 reviews2020
    Developer: CroteamPublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.2hMean: 15.9h≥1hr: 90%

    Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.

  43. #43 NINJA GAIDEN 3: Razor's Edge [NINJA GAIDEN: Master Collection]
    86% matchMixed64% of 1,855 reviews2021
    Developer: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.1hMean: 11.5h≥1hr: 84%

    3 high speed ninja action titles are now available in one package!

  44. #44 Granny Simulator
    84% matchVery Positive90% of 6,014 reviews2019
    Developer: Nick Kestle
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.4hMean: 2.8h≥1hr: 63%

    In Granny Simulator there are two players, a feeble old grandmother and her lovely grandson. The grandmothers objective is to complete her every day routine while the grandson utilizes uncanny violence and pure brutality to stop her.

  45. #45 Kindergarten
    84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 10,143 reviews2017
    Developer: Con Man GamesPublisher: SmashGames
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.2hMean: 54.8h≥1hr: 74%

    Welcome to Kindergarten! Have fun trying to learn and share...and not die. That's important too. In a school that's just not quite right, it's important to be friendly...and take out those that aren't.

  46. #46 Just Cause 4 Reloaded
    84% matchMixed62% of 31,627 reviews2018
    Developer: Avalanche StudiosPublisher: Square Enix
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.7hMean: 24.6h≥1hr: 89%

    Rogue agent Rico Rodriguez journeys to Solis, a huge South American world home of conflict, oppression and extreme weather conditions. Strap into your wingsuit, equip your fully customizable grappling hook, and get ready to bring the thunder!

  47. #47 KARTOFELKA
    85% matchMixed65% of 102 reviews2018
    Developer: ObshaGaming
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.5hMean: 11.3h≥1hr: 63%

    Platform of medium complexity, where the main role is played by 'potato'.

  48. #48 Bean Battles
    83% matchVery Positive94% of 10,028 reviews2018
    Developer: Gupa Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.4hMean: 6.1h≥1hr: 58%

    A unique take on the popular genre of battle royales. Multiple fast pace rounds that rewards kills just as much as being the last alive. Team up, take revenge, and be the last bean standing.

  49. #49 Darksiders Warmastered Edition
    83% matchVery Positive88% of 17,864 reviews2016
    Developer: KAIKOPublisher: THQ Nordic
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.0hMean: 18.0h≥1hr: 88%

    Deceived by the forces of evil into prematurely bringing about the end of the world, War – the first Horseman of the Apocalypse – stands accused of breaking the sacred law by inciting a war between Heaven and Hell.

  50. #50 Happy Room
    83% matchVery Positive91% of 2,966 reviews2016
    Developer: Mana Potion Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.7hMean: 21.0h≥1hr: 88%

    Welcome to the laboratory! Here tests are taken upon highly durable human clones using newest weapon technologies. Your goal is to head these tests.

  51. #51 Styx: Master of Shadows
    83% matchVery Positive83% of 11,456 reviews2014
    Developer: Cyanide Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.2hMean: 8.3h≥1hr: 83%

    Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements taking place in a dark fantasy universe, where you sneak, steal and assassinate your way through as Styx, a Goblin two-centuries of age.

  52. #52 RUINER
    82% matchVery Positive89% of 12,065 reviews2017
    Developer: Reikon GamesPublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 4.5hMean: 7.7h≥1hr: 80%

    RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.

  53. #53 BONELAB
    82% matchVery Positive81% of 18,748 reviews2022
    Developer: Stress Level Zero
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.6hMean: 20.3h≥1hr: 86%

    BONELAB is an experimental physics action game. Explore a mysterious lab filled with weapons, enemies, challenges and secrets. Escape your reality, or wreak havoc. No wrong answers.

  54. #54 Mother Russia Bleeds
    82% matchVery Positive87% of 5,329 reviews2016
    Developer: Le Cartel StudioPublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.1hMean: 5.8h≥1hr: 80%

    An old-fashioned beat 'em up with big doses of adrenaline and trippiness, somewhere between the classic style of Streets of Rage and the ultra-violence of Hotline Miami. Set in a cold, ruthless Soviet Union, Mother Russia Bleeds aims to conjure up anxiety, unease, and drug-addled frenzy.

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