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2024PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified87 % positive14.99 €

A stylish retro action-adventure where you play ronin Tomoe, fighting bare-handed and disarming samurai with a dash-counter mechanic. Combat is fast and built around precise timing.

Historical setting
Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
Action-packed real-time combat
Distinctive, stylised art style

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The closest matches for Bloodless are The Legend of Tianding, Trek to Yomi and Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Bloodless special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Legend of Tianding

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2021PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified94 % positive18.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Bloodless: a historical setting, action-packed real-time combat and combat with precise timing.

A hand-drawn 2D action game about Taiwanese folk hero Liao Tianding, who robs the rich in colonial-era Taipei under Japanese rule. Fast beat-'em-up combat and platforming are paired with a story steeped in local folklore.

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Trek to Yomi

Distinctive, stylised art style

A linear samurai action adventure staged like a classic black-and-white Kurosawa film. Fixed cinematic camera angles, parry-focused sword combat and a journey into the afterlife frame a somber tale of duty and loss.

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

Challenging difficulty

A classic 2D platformer where you play Pitfall Harry Jr., leaping, swinging and throwing boomerangs through Mayan jungles, waterfalls and mines to find your father. Fluid animation and precise, demanding platforming define the experience.

Sacre Bleu

Historical setting

An action platformer where you play a wrongly imprisoned Musketeer who steam-blasts out of jail and uncovers a plot to take over France.

A Bastard's Tale

Challenging difficulty

You fight your way through tough foes in this indie adventure, where parrying, attacking and well-timed reactions decide each encounter. Its pixel art and historical setting give it a distinct character.

Rot Gut

Historical setting

An action platformer set in 1920s Prohibition-era America, where you play an agent fighting heavily armed underground organizations to uncover their secrets.

Volgarr the Viking

Challenging difficulty

A merciless retro arcade platformer where a Viking fights through brutally tough levels with precise jumps and spear throws. Every hit counts, and only those who learn the patterns will progress.

The Last Blade 2

Distinctive, stylised art style

An elegant SNK 2D weapon-based fighter set in late-Edo Japan, built around parries, timing and precise special moves. Hand-drawn anime fighters and an atmospheric soundtrack make it a genre classic.

Genji: Dawn of the Samurai

Historical setting

A stylish hack-and-slash set in 12th-century Japan, where you alternate between the samurai Yoshitsune and Benkei, using counters and slow-motion techniques against the Heishi clan.

Karateka

Historical setting

You fight your way through feudal Japan as a lone martial artist to rescue Mariko from the warlord Akuma. This remake brings the 1984 classic into modern visuals, built around direct, timing-based fights and a stripped-down, focused feel.

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