Sword Fighting refers to the type of gameplay incorporating combat element. The term Sword Fighting was used to describe the playstyle mostly in Role-playing games. In Action and Arcade-style video games, the term has different usage, revolving around real-time combat with hand to hand weapons as opposed to fists or guns. In Sword Fighting games, the player equips with a mighty sword, and maybe a shield and the player can use the sword to attack enemies to kill and use the shield to defend himself from the enemy attack. Most of the games are played from the third-person perspective while some of the games can be played from the first-person perspective. These games use the quest-based system, in which the player needs save his land from enemies by defeating them. Dungeon crawling is also the essential element in the Sword Fighting games, where the player defeats the monsters to earn points. Sword Fighting terms refer to weapon-based, action, and beat ‘em up video games.

15 Best Sword Fighting Games for Mac OS

#1 Anima Gate of Memories

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Anima Gate of Memories is an Action Role-playing, Hack and Slash, Adventure, Third-person and Single-player video game created by Anima Project and published by Badland Games. The game takes place in the fictional world and the story revolves around two being, a monster and a girl who lost their past memory and are bound by an unwilling pact. Both are forced to live together and their lives will change when they find anything that is darker than they could imagine. You can take on the role of the protagonist, who is a female and your ultimate task is to manipulate the world from a third-person perspective. You have to fight against monsters and different creatures using a mighty sword and complete a variety of levels. Interact with objectives and NPCs to fulfill your tasks and earn experience points to upgrade your weapons and equipment. Anima Gate of Memories offers prominent features such as a Multifaceted Story, Epic Battles, a deep Combat System, Unique Locations, a massive World and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

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#2 Super Dungeon Bros

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Super Dungeon Bros mixes the Action Role-playing, Hack and Slash, and Dungeon Crawling elements developed by React Games and published by Wired Productions for multiple platforms. The game focuses on Multiplayer combat and takes place in the fictional realm called Rokhem consists of different worlds such as Boeheim, Chillheim, and Cryptheim. Each land features a procedurally generated layout that offers different play style. It offers the similar gameplay to Diablo and lets the player select his one of four different characters and travel the labyrinth, explore the dungeon, kill monsters while collecting treasure. The game rewards the player for each completed objective, and he can use to upgrade his equipment and abilities. The player can navigate the land from an isometric perspective along with his other three friends, face monsters, and slay them to using special weapons to earn points. As the player advances through the story, the gameplay becomes tough to master. With addictive gameplay, excellent mechanics, and smooth controls, Super Dungeon Bros is the best game to play.

#3 Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn

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Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn is a Role-playing, Fantasy-based, Exploration, Isometric, Single and Multiplayer video game by BioWare. It is the sequel to Baldur’s Gate and available to play on Windows. The game takes place in the fantasy country named Amm on the Faerun’s subcontinental. It puts the player into the role the protagonist named Gorion’s Ward and revolves around the encounters with Irenicus. To get into the game world, the player must select his character where he has to lead a team over six characters. The game focuses on character-creation system and lets the player select his appearance, class, abilities, and alignment. He can play the game from an isometric perspective. It has a variety of challenging quests and side-quests that the player must complete at any cost to earn experience points. He can play solo in Single-player campaign or play with over six friends in multiplayer mode. Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn offers enhanced mechanics, brilliant gameplay, superb visuals, and exciting story. Try it out.

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#4 Transistor

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Transistor is a Sci-Fi, Action-Adventure and an RPG video game developed and published by Supergiant Games for PC, Mac OS X, Linux, Steam and PlayStation 4 gaming consoles. Transistor’s story revolves around the character of a female protagonist Red, who mourns the death of an unknown man killed by a large sword named as Titular Transistor. She vows to revenge and gets against a mighty army of the Robots named as Process. Red paces on in the game with the story and reaches Goldwick District where she gets to know about the machines are being controlled by Camerata a sinister faction of outlaws. She starts collecting the evidences and following the leads and finally reaches to the Highrise District. Red after a huge battle against the Process finally reaches to the core of the actions and destroys the whole Process system along with all the accessories and machines in the field. After that she returns back to the previous location and learns that the man died in the beginning cannot be revived and commits suicide. The game concludes. Transistor is one amazing Action-Adventure and RPG video game that will surely take you to the heights of excitement and amazingness of all the things this game has to offer. You should try it out and enjoy the ultimate fun.

#5 Ronin

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Ronin is a wonderful Turn-based, Side-Scrolling, Action-Platformer video game like Mark of the Ninja. The game features a female protagonist who embarks on a mission to kill the five most prominent figures of a massive and powerful corporation. Ronin offers wonderful Action-oriented game-play in which it allows you to use your best stealth, sword and platform abilities in order to complete the game objectives. Just like Mark of the Ninja, Ronin allows you to stay out of the sight of guards and other enemies while pacing through a number of environments, kill the enemies by the use of your sword, guns and other weapons, use grappling hook to deceive your enemies and attack with a flash. With 15 levels of pure awesomeness, amazing visuals, super fast-paced game-play and amazing objectives to complete, Ronin is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.

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#6 Enclave

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Enclave is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Perspective, Role-playing, Hack and Slash video game developed by Starbreeze Studios and published by Conspiracy Games. The game supports Single-player mode only and takes place in the medieval fantasy setting, where the player assumes the role of either a Minion of Darkness or a Warrior of Light. Each character has its unique abilities and playing style. During the gameplay, the player uses the magical and medieval weapons to battle enemies. At the beginning of each mission, the player needs to select his character to jump into the world where he has to complete a variety of quests to become the master. The player must pick-up gear and weapons to equip from the mission with the character that he selected. He has to gather gold to equip weapons and gems to increase the character’s abilities at the start of each mission. Enclave includes prominent features such as over 25 Detailed Fantasy-themed Missions, 5 Mighty Bosses, 2 Separate Story, 12 Playable Characters, and more. Try it out.

#7 Marvel Heroes 2016

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Marvel Heroes 2016 is a Fantastic, Action-Adventure, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing, Co-op, Hack and Slash, Third-person and Fighting video game developed and published by Gazillion Entertainment. The game includes superheroes such Spider-man, Superman, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Batman, etc. and allows you to choose you character one of them and get into the game world. The game includes strategic element and allows you to amuse yourself in fighting experience. You can team up with other online players and try to stop Doctor Doom, who wants to destroy the world with the dangerous and powerful of the comic cube. Each hero is having their own unique abilities, skills, and special attacks. The game takes place in a Marvel Universe and allows you to explore it and fight against Doctor Doom companions in order to save the world. You can play the game with other online players in PvP combat events. The Crafting System, Action-packed, Play as Solo, Team Up, Superheroes, Customization, Discover Endless Variety of Gear, etc. are the most prominent features of the game. Marvel Heroes 2016 offers brilliant and friendly mechanics, Ultra HD visuals details, fantastic story and addictive gameplay. Try it out. It’ll entertain you.

#8 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II

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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II is an Action Role-playing and Single-player video game, enabling the player controls the actions of the character. It takes place in the fictional universe of Star Wars 4,000 years before the events of the movie developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by LucasArts. The game starts five years after the event of its predecessor and revolves around The Exile’s story, a Jedi Knight who was exiled from the Jedi Order. In the beginning, the protagonist wakes up on an asteroid mining facility. After the escape, he or she finds a person who destroyed who exiled him ten years ago, who embark the protagonist on an epic mission to find the remaining Jedi to battle against the Sith. The game mainly focuses on combat and lets the player explore the environment from a third-person perspective while interacting with environment and NPCs. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and wonderful graphics, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II is the best game to play and enjoy.

#9 DungeonLand

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DungeonLand is a Multiplayer, Co-Op Action-RPG and Hack and Slash video game with similarities to the popular Castle Crashers. The game is set in a medieval era and allows you to select your character from a number of classes (Warrior, Mage, Rogue and Hero) and go on an amazing journey through a Medieval themed park, team up with your fellow heroes and assimilate the evil Dungeon Maestro along with all of his might and save the tragic kingdom. DungeonLand offers amazing Co-Op multiplayer game-play, amazing visuals, good story and a lot of other great things.

#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 Heart and Slash

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Heart and Slash brings an Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, and Single-player gameplay with an emphasis on Beat ‘em up element developed by A Heart Full of Games and published by Badland Games. The game takes place in the stunning world where machines rule the world after human civilization. In the story, you assume the role of the Heart, a robot fighting to escape from the custody of the evil being looking like a machine named as QuAsSy. It offers a procedurally generated environment, and the game features permanent death elements. You explore the world from a third-person perspective, the battle against enemies using a sword and can destroy them using your abilities. There are three different worlds available to explore and fight against robot machines. Each world comprises a variety of unique enemies and bosses. It has dozens of hi-tech weapons available to use and customize. Heart and Slash includes prominent features such as Dozens of Weapons, Perma-death, Play your Style, 3 Worlds, and more. Check out the game and have fun.

#12 Hammerwatch

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Hammerwatch is an Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash and Single-player video game developed and published by Crackshell. It takes place in the fantasy-themed world and offers the similar gameplay to Diablo. According to the story, the player stuck in a castle populated by hundreds of enemies. The ultimate task of the player is to explore the castle from a top-down perspective and battle enemies to kill them and move on to the next level, as the player fulfill the requirements. There are six character classes available such as Wizard, Thief, Priest, Warlock, and more. The player chooses his class one of them to start his adventure. In the beginning, the game looks too easy, but as the player explores the environment, it becomes tough to master. During the gameplay, the player uses lots of other weapons to kill numerous enemies and can purchase skills from traders around the maps. Hammerwatch offers core features such as Customization, Character Development, Six Character Classes and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

#13 DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue

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DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue is a great inclusion to the series of DeathSpank and provides with an amazing Action-RPG experience for all the hardcore gamers. The game continues the adventures of DeathSpank and this time it tasks him to find the Six Thongs of Virtue. Closely related to the original story, DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue offers enhanced mechanics, controls, visuals, Action and RPG elements and Combat system. The basic objectives of the game are to explore a huge game world, embark on epic quests, and interact with NPCs, fighting against the huge and powerful enemy bosses along with their companions and monsters. DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue offers great Torchlight 2 like combat system and other great things that will definitely let you enjoy an amazing gameplay and mechanics etc. DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue is one of the best games to play and enjoy. Do give it a try.

#14 Mini Ninjas

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Mini Ninjas, developed by IO Interactive is one of the best Action- Adventure, Platforms and Stealth video games like Mark of the Ninja. The game features six main player character that you can play with by switching momentarily, but in order to play with the other characters, you’ll have to rescue them from the enemies. On your journey to free the characters, you’ll have to go on different missions and use a number of weapons (Bombs, Swords, fishing Rods, knives etc.) to defeat your enemies. For a brief time (Until the other characters are rescued by you), you’ll have to play the game as Hiro who is laced up with sword, caltrops and shuriken and amazing magical skills (Firebal, Lightning Bolts, Camouflage and Time Manipulation etc.) and your task is to defeat your enemies who are animals possessed by dark spells. You can defeat them and tame them in order to use them against the enemies and eventually free all of the other characters. You can also collect different items such as Mushrooms, coins, flowers and ginseng roots and exchange them with weapons. With an immersive game-play, cool dynamics, great quest-based storyline and a lot of other great things, Mini Ninjas is a brilliant alternative to Mark of the Ninja. Do try it out.

#15 Foul Play

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Foul Play is another great Multiplayer Action-Adventure Brawler, Casual, Indie Hack ‘n’ Slash and Beat ‘em’ up video game by Mediatonic. The game allows you to be a Demon Hunter named Baron Dashforth, get into a theater stage game world, pummel your opponents/enemies and earn different kinds of rewards. In order to complete the game objectives you must perform well on the stage while speedily wielding your weapons and satisfy your audience. You must also take down all the vicious beasts, pummeling enemies and all the other rivals. With 22 super stage acts, 50 different enemies, amazing stage tricks, cool visuals, great story and a wonderful gameplay, Foul Play is a marvelous game to play and enjoy.