Hack and Slash (also known as Hack and Slay) is a type of gameplay that emphasizes combat. The hack and slash gameplay used to describe the play style in Role-playing games and focused on the real-time battle with hand to hand weapons. In these games, the player controls a character equipped with a sword and a shield with a task to slay as many foes as possible while defending himself from the enemy attack to survive. During the gameplay, the player uses different actions and can create combos by combining these actions to kill numerous enemies. In hack and slash games, there are no significant goals and the player has to explore the stunning environment, battle hordes of enemies and kill them to earn points. The term of hack and slash also being used in action and weapon-based beat ‘em up games like the Golden Axe series. These games bring the 3D Third-person Perspective, melee action and weapon-based games such as Dynasty Warriors, Devil May Cry, God of War, and more.

16 Best Hack and Slash Games for Xbox One

#1 Ryse: Son of Rome

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Ryse: Son of Rome developed by Crytek and published by Microsoft Studios is an Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, Single and Multiplayer video game. The game takes place in the alternative version of Rome and follows the story of the protagonist named Marius Titus who wants to become one of the best leaders in the Roman Legion. It centers on the protagonist using the mighty sword to smash foes and shield to prevent attacks. It introduces Co-op Multiplayer mode, which takes you into battle against hordes of enemies in the large maps that are changing automatically. You can assume the role of the protagonist to fulfill your dream to become the greatest legend. Navigate the environment from a third-person perspective and set out yourself on an epic quest to take revenge the murder of your family. Take part in battles and fight against waves of enemies, slaughter them all using your sword and earn experience points to enhance your abilities. Learn new skills and become the master the by fulfilling your goals. With prominent features, addictive gameplay, and fantastic graphics, Ryse: Son of Rome is the best game to play and enjoy.

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#2 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is probably one of the best Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game ever. This epic Action-Adventure and RPG video game is recently released and provides with an amazingly action-packed game-play that will take you to an amazing open world setting in which you act as a Highly Trained Monster Slayer who is available for Hire. Unlike the stories of the previous two games of The Witcher series, Geralt goes on a personal mission. The story starts up from where it ended in The Witcher 2, and Geralt, after concluding the chapters, moves on with his new life. The new Mission takes Geralt to the Darkest ever times as an otherworldly Army known as The Wild Hunt casts its mysterious spell over the Northern Kingdoms. A new era of bloody wars, chaos and destruction starts up and once again the responsibility falls upon your shoulders to stop The Wild Hunt and restore the Order in the Realm. This open world Fantasy-based video game allows you to go on epic quests, fight against the most fearsome and mysterious beings of all time, engage yourself into the most brutal and epic battles, lead armies and fight as it is your favorite hobby. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt offers state of the art visual details, a great story driven game-play, amazing weapons, skills, new enemies and much more to discover and enjoy.

#3 The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt: Blood and Wine

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The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt: Blood and Wine is the 2nd and final Downloadable Content Pack for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt released in 2015. Created by CD Projekt Red. The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt: Blood and Wine was released for multiple platforms such as Windows, PlayStation, and Xbox. The game offers Action role-playing, Open World, Third-person Exploration and Single-player gameplay for hardcore players. The story centers in the protagonist named as Geralt of Rivia, as he traverses across the Toussaint, where the war takes place and strange monsters terrorizing the land. The player can assume the role of the protagonist, and his primary goal is to manipulate the world from a third-person view either on horseback or by foot. His character equips with a sword and a shield that he can use during the battle against monsters and enemies. During exploration, the player needs to solve mysteries, accomplish quests and earn experience points to unlock further features. With improved graphics, storyline, new environments and fighting style, The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt: Blood and Wine is the best game to play.

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#4 Darksiders Warmastered Edition

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Darksiders Warmastered Edition combines the Action Role-playing and Hack and Slash elements and brings a thrilling gameplay for hardcore players who love playing hack and slash games. The game supports Single-player mode only developed by Vigil Games and published by THQ Nordic. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse inspires the game, and the game puts you in the role of the horseman war and explores the environment form a third-person perspective. The atmosphere of the game is split into different locations with multiple areas initially locked until later in the game. The protagonist equips with a mighty sword that he can use to kill monsters, enemies and strange creatures to earn points and collect power-ups to maintain the health bar and raise the power. The team of evil is struggling to take over the world and destroy the humanity, but you are standing like a mountain in their way to control the land. Engage yourself in a real-time battle, and cut down enemies using your sword. Darksiders Warmastered Edition includes prominent features such as Apocalyptic Power, Extreme Arsenal, Epic Quests, Character Progression and more.

#5 Darksiders: Fury’s Collection

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Darksiders: Fury’s Collection is the perfect compilation of Darksiders Warmasterd Edition and Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition in single a pack. The game offers an exciting gameplay and takes place in the fictional environment. It combines the Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash and Third-person Perspective elements. Each title in the pack introduces a brilliant gameplay and consists of a variety of levels. The player can assume the role of the protagonist and his primary objective is to manipulate the world from third-person and fight against enemies to take down them. According to the story, a conflict breaks out between hell and heaven. One of four horsemen finds himself in the midst of the Earth. The game becomes challenging to play and unlocks further content, as the player progresses through the game. Each character has its unique personality, and play style. During the gameplay, the player needs to complete quests while solving a variety of puzzles to earn points. Darksiders: Fury’s Collection is the best game to play and enjoy.

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#6 Strider

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Strider is a marvelous new Action-Adventure, Platform, Stealth and Hack and Slash video game by Double Helix Games. The game offers an amazingly fast-paced and action filled game-play in which you act as the finest Ninja Assassin named as Strider Hiryu who works for the Strider Organization. The Strider Assign you the task to assassinate the Evil Grand maestro Meio who is taking refuge in his den in the city of Kazakh. In order to complete the game objectives, you’ll have to go through the hordes of highly trained and fast acting enemy ninjas, kill them by the use of your great sword wielding and platforming skills and by using other sharp edged weapons like shurikan, knives etc. Strider lets you use the Cypher a plasma weapon as your main weapon that can kill multiple enemies with only one good blow. As you proceed to the advanced levels of the game, Strider allows you to use upgrades to enhance your weapons and skills and get blasted upon the enemies as a bolt of lightning, finally reach to the Grand maestro and assassinate him. With an amazingly fast action, great visuals, immersive game-play and a wonderful story, Strider is a great game to play and enjoy.

#7 Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires

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Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires is an Action, Hack and Slash, Single and Multiplayer video game with Beat ‘em up element developed by Omega Force and published by Tecmo Koei. The game serves as the 2nd downloadable content of the original title Dynasty Warriors 8, released in 2014. It introduces new playable characters, improved environment, and brilliant controls. It has two different modes such as Story and Free modes. The story mode offers the similar faction-based storyline and comes back with seamless cutscenes. Ambition and Challenge modes are also introduced in the expansion pack, which offers different arcade-style challenges. The player has to select his playable character and jump into the world full of enemies. He uses his unique abilities and fighting style to face hordes of enemies and kill them to earn enough points. The gameplay is explored from a third-person perspective while the player fighting enemies. Combine unique attacks to create the combos and beat waves of enemies to earn massive points. With prominent features, addictive gameplay and incredible graphics, Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires is the best game to play.

#8 Dishonored: Definitive Edition

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Dishonored: Definitive Edition is a collection of multiple Downloadable Content Packs including Dishonored, Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall, Dishonored: Void Walker Arsenal, Dishonored: Dunwall City Trails and more. The game offers Action-Adventure and First-person Perspective video game with Stealth elements developed and published by Bethesda Softworks. It takes place in the breathtaking environment and puts you in the role of the protagonist named Daud, a legendary assassin who slaughtered the Empress. There are different missions and objectives in each title and you have to explore all of them to find new weapons, fight enemies and slay them to earn points. You manipulates the world from a first-person perspective and uses stealth element to kill the foes silently. It offers open-ended world full of non-players characters, enemies and their bosses. During the battle, you can use melee combat and weapons to take down enemies and can show off your abilities to your friends. Dishonored offers core features, engaging gameplay, superb mechanics, and wonderful graphics. Try it out, and enjoy its gameplay with prominent features.

#9 Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom

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Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom is an Action, Hack and Slash, Third-person Perspective, Single and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Koei Tecmo Games for Multiple Platforms. The game around the protagonist named Eren Yeager, his beloved friend Armin Arlert and his foster sister named Miskasa Ackerman and their adventures. The game embarks the protagonist on an epic adventure when the Colossal Titans breach the wall which guards his homeland and one of them slaughter and eat his mother and kill all the Titans. The protagonist and his friends join the military to take revenge from Colossal Titans to his mother’s death. The player can play as the Eren and can use different weapons, and items to kill monsters and foes. He can explore the world from a third-person perspective and can earn points by defeating Titans and their leaders. As the game progress, it becomes more challenging, and the player must unlock further features. With enhanced mechanics, new scenarios, weapons, exciting story, and addictive gameplay, Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

#10 Chivalry

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Chivalry is a Series of hardcore Action-RPG and hack and Slash video games developed by Tom Banner Studios. The game offers critically acclaimed and popular titles such as Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior (DLC Pack for Chivalry: Medieval Warfare ), and Chivalry: Complete Pack (Pack for both of the games of series). The series mainly focuses on Melee combats and allows the players to engage in the Epic Multiplayer Online gameplay. The series offers various types of game modes including Deathmatch, team Deathmatch, Team objectives, Duel Mode, Capture the Flag, Last team Standing, and King of the Hill, etc. Because of being the Melee combat focused gameplay, the games in the series are all about killing the other online knights and Combatants while using a number of different types of Melee weapons such as Swords, Hammers, Axes, and Spears, etc. Throughout the series, you’ll experience an entirely brutal gameplay, packed with hardcore melee action and thrill. Chivalry offers A DLC pack for the game named as Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior that offers more new characters, a new story, new weapons and stuff to the gameplay and allows the players to enjoy a remarkable experience of Action, RPG, and Melee Combat elements. For all those who love playing games With Action, RPG, and Hack and Slash elements, Chivalry has loads to offer. Do give it a try.

#11 Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires

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Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires is an Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Omega Force and published by Tecmo Koei Games. It is the 7th major title in the series of Dynasty Warriors game and the story based on the historical novel known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms of a Chinese writer called Luo Guanzhong. The game takes place in the open-ended world, lets the player move freely and played from a third-person perspective. There are several characters available such as Mao Chao, Bao Sanniang, Deng Ai, Cao Pi, Dian Wei, Xiahou Ba, and more. The player needs to choose his character and jump into the world where he or she has to fight against enemies using his mighty sword and kill them all to earn experience points and level up. The player can interact with NPCs and he needs to complete a series of missions to become the master. With improved graphics, addictive gameplay, and realistic soundtracks, Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires is the wonderful hack and slash game to play and enjoy.

#12 For Honor

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For Honor developed by Ubisoft Montreal is a mixture of Fighting, Action-Adventure and Hack and Slash elements for hardcore players. It supports both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and enables you to assume the role of the historical warriors and soldiers such as Vikings, Samurai, Knights, etc. within the medieval-themed world played from a third-person perspective. The game takes place during the historical period inspired fantasy setting. There are three different factions available such as The Chosen Samurai, The Blackstone Legion Knight, and The Warborn Vikings and these three factions offer samurai, Viking and knight respectively. Multiplayer mode offers the similar gameplay to Single-player campaign, featuring AI minions, Perks, Art of Battle System. Domination, Brawl, Duel, Skirmish and Elimination are five prominent modes in the game. You as the protagonist must explore the world, fight rivals and kill them to complete a variety of missions while scoring the highest points to level-up your abilities. For Honor includes core features such as Story Campaign, Battle Control System, Conquer Foes with Friends, and more. Try it out, if you are die-hard fan of hack and slash genre.

#13 Disney Infinity 3.0: Play without Limits

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Disney Infinity 3.0: Play without Limits is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Perspective, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Avalanche and published by Disney. The game takes place in the Star Wars Universe and includes a variety of exciting characters. It features new characters to from the series and introduces a variety of challenging missions. Each character has its unique personality and weapons. The player needs to select his character and jump into the world where he has to fight against enemies using his weapons and explore the world from third-person view to find power-ups. The game is a mix of exploration, combat, platform, and racing elements. The game includes two new multiplayer expansion games such as Villain Takeover and Speedway. You can play alone in Single-player mode while can play with up to four friends in Local Network and with two players in local Multiplayer mode. With enhanced graphics, addictive gameplay, and superb features, Disney Infinity 3.0: Play without Limits is the best game to play and enjoy.

#14 Devil May Cry 4

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Devil May Cry 4 is the latest addition to the already trending and one of the most played series Devil May Cry. The game offers a marvelous combination of Action-Adventure and Hack and Slash elements and tells the story of a new character named as Nero. Nero possesses multiple demonic powers and is on a mission to encounter the main character, Dante. In the previous game, Dante assassinates the Demons from the Order of the Sword along with their Leader and removes them from existence. The story starts off where it ended in the previous game, and the player gets to control both Dante and Nero. Both of the main characters are now hunting down the Evil and have similar goals. Devil May Cry 4 focuses on close combats including the Melee and allows the players to use different weapons such as Firearms, Swords and loads of other things to Hack and Slash their way through the hordes of demonic enemies. Devil May Cry 4 offers an engaging gameplay, revamped game mechanics, and new characters and rebuilt graphics and offers a great Action-focused experience to all the hardcore fans of the series.

#15 Final Fantasy XV

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Final Fantasy XV is an Action Role-playing and Single-player video game created and published by Square Enix. The game takes place in the stunning open world environment called Eos and focuses on action-based battle system similar to Kingdom Heart. It is the fifteen main entry in the Final Fantasy series. The player can assume the role of the protagonist named Noctis and the story revolves around his struggle to retake his homeland and his magical crystal. There are other character who helps the protagonist during his journey such as Gladiolus, Prompto and Ignis. Final Fantasy XV uses real-time battle system focuses on action and lets the player navigate the open world consists of forests, mountains, villages, and more. Complete a series of quests, use a variety of weapons, battle against foes and their bosses to recover your homeland and it magical crystal. The game rewards the player with experience points and allows him to purchase different tools, equipment and more. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, excellent soundtrack, and lots of action, Final Fantasy XV is the best game to play and enjoy for those who love playing Role-playing games.

#16 Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate

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Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate is an Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Omega Force and published by Tecmo Koei. The game introduces the new features from the Hyper version and brings four new playable characters such as Seimei, Rachel, Momiji, and more. In the game, the player must select his character to start his adventure, where he has to fight waves of enemies and smash them all using his unique abilities. It offers an exciting story, in which after the war, the legends of the three kingdoms have started to rebuild their lives in the dimensional world after the permanent death of Orochi. The peace of the land was disturbed by a massive, monstrous eight-headed beast called Hydra. As the hero, the player has to manipulate the world using a third-person perspective, and battle enemies and their bosses with his mighty sword. Slay them all and earn experience points to upgrade his character and his traditional weapons. Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate offers the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, and superb soundtracks.