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Looking for a good samurai game on PC? Samurai are the subject of ceaseless fascination for many gamers thanks to their ornate armour, razor-sharp weaponry, and the stories that have been told about them in other media thanks to directors like Akira Kurosawa and Yôji Yamada. However, there are surprisingly few samurai games, especially on PC.

To right that wrong, we’ve dug through every digital store and upcoming release in search of the very best samurai games around. With few options to choose from we’ve had to get a bit creative with our choices, so expect some games that only feature samurai in limited roles, games with characters like samurai, ronin games, and heaps of different genres. Everything from hack-and-slash games and strategy behemoths to action-adventure games and multiplayer brawlers is on the cards for this samurai games list.

We’ll also be taking a look at a couple of upcoming samurai games in case you’re looking for something more up to date.

Here are the best samurai games on PC:

For Honor

If you’re after a samurai game that dials in on the distinct weaponry and fighting style of these warriors then For Honor is arguably your best bet. This multiplayer fighting game features Wu Lin warriors, Knights, Vikings, and Samurai, and thanks to the For Honor class system you can even select a specific type of samurai warrior as your main.

There’s the adaptable Kensei, a solid all-round samurai warrior who decimates their foes with a nodachi sword; or the Orochi, an assassin who has mastered the art of counter-attacking with a katana. If you prefer heavier tools then you can try the kanabo-wielding Shugoki, who clubs his opponents into a bloody pulp. Finally, there’s Nobushi, who uses a naginata pole weapon to control space and whittle down enemies from a safe distance.

For Honor is also enjoying a Rainbow Six Siege-like resurgence in popularity, its player count rising steadily since launch, so you can be sure of finding a match.

Nioh

Nioh is a samurai Soulslike that blends history with the Japanese supernatural to create a truly twisted vision of the Sengoku period. You play as William, an Anglo-Irish sailor who arrives in Japan in pursuit of someone, but it’s not long before you become embroiled in a battle between Tokugawa Ieyasu, supernatural monsters, and Edward Kelley, another Westerner driving the conflict using occultist powers.

Nioh takes a lot of design cues from the Souls series, such as its challenging hack-and-slash combat, bonfire-like shrines where you can save progress, and the fact that you’ll have one chance to recover all of your XP from your body after dying before losing it forever.

The clash of fiction and reality means you’ll be fighting other samurai warriors as well as monstrous demons, ensuring combat is varied and you never run out of new enemies to hone your katana skills against. This samurai game also features countless historical figures from the Sengoku period, offering a fun entry point if you’re not a history buff.

Total War: Shogun 2

The only strategy game on this list, but also one of the best strategy games of all time, Total War: Shogun 2 sees you assume the role of clan leader and general of one of nine major clans from the Japanese provinces (12 if you include DLC). You’ll need to oversee the development of settlements, grow your military, expand your economy, and technological research, all while trying to handle diplomatic conundrums and quell political subversion.

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Depending on which clan you decide to rule with you’ll also have significant strengths and weaknesses to circumvent throughout your campaign. For example, if you decide to control the Mōri clan you’ll have a long history of naval triumph to draw upon, while the Takeda clan boast the best cavalry in the game. No samurai game offers a greater overview of the feudal Japan than Total War: Shogun 2, making it an absolute must for fans of this period.

Onimusha: Warlords

Onimusha: Warlords is the Resident Evil of samurai games, and thanks to a recent HD re-release, one of the best Onimusha games is finally available on PC.

In Onimusha: Warlords you battle against hordes of demons as swordsman Samanosuke Akechi in a quest to rescue Princess Yuki of the Saitō clan. The plot gets pretty convoluted from then on, but the gameplay is rock solid – you fight demons with a katana and an assortment of magical weapons, absorb their souls, and use them to upgrade your arsenal. There are also puzzles to solve, offering a pleasant break from demon-slaying, and occasionally you’ll gain control of Kaede, your kunoichi assistant with an entirely different set of acrobatic abilities and weapons to master.

The pre-rendered backdrops and fixed camera certainly lend the HD PC release of Onimusha: Warlords a dated look and feel, but that’s part of its charm.

Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada

Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada may not be as good as some of the best games from its sibling franchise Dynasty Warriors, but it does combine many of the best elements of those games with a story that centres on the Sanada clan during a heavily romanticized Warring States period.

This is a Warriors game, so one of the main draws is the huge, noisy battle sequences where you can decimate dozens of foes by mashing a few keys, or deliver punishing Musou moves to finish tough enemies off. Outside of battle you can explore Castle Towns that offer a glimpse of day-to-day life during this time, albeit through the series’ highly stylized lens.

But it’s the historical story at the heart of Spirit of Sanada that makes it one of the best samurai games on PC. Over the course of the game’s campaign you’ll follow all 48 years of Yukimura Sanada’s life, the real samurai officer who was regarded as the last Sengoku hero and one of the greatest warriors in all of Japan – it’s an emotional tale of bravery, morality, and family, so we won’t spoil it for you.

Samurai Gunn

If you’re after a couch co-op brawler with distinctly bushido aesthetic then Samurai Gunn then check out Samurai Gunn. This hidden gem of local multiplayer games pits between two and four warriors against one another in a tiny platform-strewn arena of death – each player has a sword and a gun with only three bullets, so you better make each shot count.

It’s simple chaotic fun in the same vein as Towerfall: Ascension, and the glorious fountains of crimson that erupt from your victims only add to the satisfaction of defeating your best friends. There’s a sequel in the works, too, so you might want to hold out for Samurai Gunn 2, which promises to add heaps more co-op features to the brawler.

Sword of the Samurai

Much like Sid Meier’s Pirates! Sword of the Samurai was an old PC game that was way ahead of its time and sorely overlooked when it originally launched way back in 1989. Developer MicroProse’s ambitious samurai simulator has since found its way to digital distribution platforms like GOG and Steam, meaning it’s finally easy to get a copy of it.

Sword of the Samurai casts you as a fledgling member of the samurai class, struggling to gain honour during the Warring States period. Your ultimate goal is to unite all 48 clans and become a noble leader, but before you can do that you have a lot of other pressing matters to attend to, such as starting a family to ensure you have an heir to replace you in case you die in battle.

You’ll have to progress from vassal to retainer, then get promoted to lieutenant, and eventually to daimyō of your clan, and the best way to curry favour is by growing your army, seizing land, and proving your swordsmanship in battle. The whole time you need to be careful not to perform any dishonourable actions like assassinating rivals or kidnapping key individuals, and depending on how you’re discovered and how bad your actions were you may have to commit seppuku or even face having your whole family executed, which ends the game.

Way of the Samurai 4

Way of the Samurai has its fair share of issues, but it does take place during one of the most fascinating parts of Japanese history: the decline and fall of the shogunate. You play as a rōnin who has just arrived in the fictional port town of Amihama, and it’s up to you to create your own story by siding with one of the three factions: pro-government troops, anti-government rebels, or the opportunistic British Navy. There are a total of ten endings to discover, and how you choose to interact with the world through events and NPCs you meet across Amihama impacts what path your samurai ends up taking.

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It’s far from perfect and even a little ridiculous in places, but there are stacks of cool ideas buried in Way of the Samurai 4 that make it an intriguing RPG. Commit a crime and you can be taken away and subjected to water torture, which has some highly unexpected ramifications. Likewise, if you don’t want to get embroiled in the various dramas of the port town then you can simply focus all of your attention on developing your own dojo. Whatever this samurai game lacks in polish it more than makes up for in personality.

Upcoming samurai games

Rather wait for something fresh to release? Here are a couple of upcoming samurai games we’ve spotted on the horizon.

Nioh 2

The first Nioh was an unexpected hit, so expectations for Nioh 2 are pretty steep. We know almost nothing about the upcoming action-RPG – it’s not even been officially confirmed for PC. One change that has been revealed though, is that the player will be able to learn and use abilities gained from the yokai.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

While Nioh takes plenty of inspiration from the Souls series, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is the next game from Souls creators FromSoftware and naturally continues the Soulsborne games’ legacy of gross enemies and being brutally difficult. In Sekiro you play as a shinobi – rather than a samurai – tasked with rescuing a young prince in Sengoku-era Japan. As you’d expect from developers FromSoftware, this is a twisted vision of feudal Japan, so expect to be slaying horrific ogres and vomiting monstrosities more often than lowly guards. Check out the Sekiro release date and plenty of other details while you’re here.

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And that’s your lot, all the best samurai games we could find on PC. If you’re fancying another profession then be sure to look over our best police games and best pirate games list. In the meantime, wipe those crimson flecks from your blade, unlace that cuirass, and take a load off.

“War, huh, what is it good for?” – Edwin Star, War from the album War and Peace

Well… apparently, it’s good for good times. War games are all over the map. So, to honor our ever-present source of joy and soul-crushing doom, Mac Gamer HQ presents you with a four-star general overview of the best war games for Mac.

As always, we’re going for different styles and genres, as well as different price points and system requirements. We aim to help you discover great new games and perhaps one of these will be perfect for you:

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No round-up of the best Mac war games for Mac would be complete without touching on the big franchises that have left their mark on Mac gaming, so I’ll start with two of the major ones. These are perfect for those of you who enjoy crushing your enemies under the heel of your polished and well-kept boots.

The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone – Thomas Hobbes

War is all-encompassing and to give you the taste of blood you crave, the Total War series relies on a dual-engine approach. First, there’s a real-time war theater which allows you to command your troops’ every move on the battlefield. It lets you deploy your soldiers, define your engagement strategy, groupings, pace, and more. In between battles, there’s a turn-based strategy interface (think a very stripped down version of Sid Meier’s Civilization series) that lets you construct the whole of your war machine. Different games in the Total War franchise take you from before the birth of Christ to the end of the Napoleonic period and all over the globe.

MacGamer HQ’s head-honcho Ric is a fan of the franchise’s take on feudal japan, Total War: Shogun 2, but I’m definitely fond of the most recent release, Total War: Attila. Attila takes you to the end of the western Roman empire and puts you in control of one of the Mediterranean or Germanic tribes that carved up former Roman territory, and their enemy’s hides in the process. The game features a skirmish mode, historical battles mode (which lets you relive some epic battlefield confrontations of the period) and a campaign mode. Campaign mode features a dynasty interface that allows you to play the court game of intrigue if you’re the type that likes your war in intimate settings. You can purchase additional campaigns and culture packs if your favorite war-mongering pack of blood-thirsty maniacs isn’t in the base game.

The Wargame series, from Eugen Systems, is a real-time strategy (RTS) wargame that gives you control of Cold War Era militaries across the globe. One of the biggest selling points is Eugen’s effort to bring you as close to the real battlefield as possible, accurately reproducing hundreds of military vehicles, troops, and weapons. The campaign modes have grown with each release and the multiplayer modes are worth hundreds of hours of replay value. A unique aspect of the game is the satellite camera mode which, on its own, is little more than a cool video effect but, in reality, demonstrates the scale of the game’s battlefields.

Wargame: European Escalation, gives the player the chance to control one of the Cold War militaries in Thatcher-era Europe. The game’s sequel, Wargame: Airland Battle, takes you right back to the battlefield in a conflict between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces. But if you had to buy just one, the series’ latest, Wargame: Red Dragon, brings you near the end of the Cold War and adds a variety of the Asian communist states, expanding the theater of war to a truly global scale.

The RTS genre is dominated by war games, but the variety of styles still leaves Mac players with plenty of options for demolishing their foes.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time – Leo Tolstoy

Another Mac Gamer HQ favorite, Company of Heroes 2 is the sequel to the original Company of Heroes, released over a decade ago. The sequel takes you directly onto the Eastern Front of WWII for a close-up look at the vagaries of the war you’re waging. The Essence 3.0 engine provides a beautifully rendered war theater that utilizes a variety of in-game systems to enhance the realism of the battlefield and encourage victory by skill rather than firepower. The destructible environments never cease to amaze me and the many ways the enemy can be countered with the right units is equally impressive.

The three released DLC packs introduce more armies for single and multiplayer modes (including action on the Western Front), each of which carries their own strengths and flaws. You can pick up the CoH2: Master Collection for a tidy $39.99 and choose how you want to win and on which map to reign supreme.

Paradox Interactive is well known for its grand-strategy simulations. Each of their titles features an adjustable real-time clock allowing you to watch your decisions play out in a matter of minutes or extending the results of your strategic decisions to hours and days. Their games can bring you from the start of the crusades through the end of the WWII; the company’s most recent offering, Stellaris, will even take you hundreds of years into the future for galaxy-wide statecraft. Each game has it’s own idiosyncrasies and loyalists, but they’ll all give you your fix if grand strategy is your thing.

Hearts of Iron 4 is the company’s most war-oriented, giving you god-like command over pretty much any country that existed in the WWII period. An almost ridiculously complex technology system lets you guide your country’s development as you like, while diplomacy systems let you conduct trade, form and break alliances and treaties, and appoint advisors to help you turn the world from a divided battleground into one of your making. The military system provides you with the chance to specialize your battalions. Pause the game, set your plans, bump up the game-clock speed, and unpause and you can watch your grand vision bring the war to a close on your terms, or bring your country to ruin.

It would be hard to find a gamer in the world that isn’t at least aware of Blizzard’s Starcraft 2. The game extends a nearly decade and a half’s long campaign of real-time space war with an RTS system that serves as a cross between the resource acquisition of traditional 4x turn-based strategy games such as the Civilization series and the RTS battlefield play of the Total War series.

Starcraft 2 gives you control over one of three races, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, to craft a mobile war machine from, almost literally, the ground up. Nearly every aspect of your fighting force, from securing resources to front-line battle commands, is under your control and while the battlefield is yours for the taking, it’s also everyone else’s.
While Blizzard controversially released each race’s story as its own game, as opposed to the original which had all three in one package, Wings of Liberty, Legacy of the Void and Heart of the Swarm can now all be bought and played separately. With a variety of playable races, Starcraft 2 can easily satisfy any urge to dominate your fellow man … or alien.

War games in the turn-based tactical strategy genre have been relatively dry as of late, but there are some definite gems if you keep your eyes open. The two below are some of the better known.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. – Sun Tzu, The Art of War

XCOM 2 follows the events of the first XCOM release of the new era, placing you in command of an XCOM team living on the run in a world controlled by the alien forces. The open-ended campaign mode lets you pick and choose what to do, and where and when to do it as you regain control of Earth.

The tactical combat system provides turn-by-turn control over 5 classes of warriors that you can tailor to your own strategy. The technology system of the previous game remains, in expanded form, giving you control over how you’ll exterminate your alien overlords. A greater cast of friends, foes, NPC’s, and increased diversity in weapons and gear complete the game’s customization options, giving you total control over your forces in both the campaign and multiplayer mode. With XCOM 2, you are humanity’s last stand, again, after the first last stand against alien invasion forces failed.

Easily one of the most highly regarded series’ on Mac, The Banner Saga takes you into a fantasy Viking world for an RPG epic story. A turn-based tactical battle system gives you control of 25 customizable characters, each of 2 different races and 7 different classes, in both the campaign story mode and multiplayer skirmish modes. The narrative is an important aspect of this series and each of your choices over the course of the game affects the rest of your experience in an open-ended story-mode that requires strategic decisions on the battlefield but also outside.

Feudal Life Game

The 2-D graphics call to mind the old-school style of Dragon’s Lair with beautifully animated battlefields and story animations. The campaign mode is currently 2 games deep, with a third episode in development, and since decisions made in the first game carry over to the second, I recommend you start with part one and play through the second.

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No look at the top war games would be complete without a look at the First Person Shooters (FPS) that put you right onto the front lines in the muck and the mire of warfare. The three discussed here are just a sample of the FPS war games available for Mac gamers.

I’m better when it’s breathing. – Chris, American Sniper

In truth, it’s hard to find anything to say about the Call of Duty series. After all, who isn’t familiar with Call of Duty’s trademark fast gameplay and shoot everything that moves style. But of all the versions available for Mac gamers, Modern Warfare 3 is the one Mac Gamer HQ head honcho Ric recommends. MW3 is on Steam, features cross-platform multiplayer, a spec ops co-op mode and survival modes. Call of Duty games all have fun campaigns with production values worthy of a Michael Bay film. Yet Multiplayer is where they all shine and MW 3’s cross-platform multiplayer makes it the best Mac alternative.

The entire MW series (CoD4MW+MW2+MW3) is also available on Steam in one bundle that puts all of Modern Warfare in your hands, along with DLC, for a reasonably tidy sum. There’s really not a lot to say about it. It’s Call of Duty, but on Mac hardware. Just aim, run, and shoot people in the face.

Arma 3 puts you in control of a variety of battlefield soldiers and mechanical vehicles of destruction. The single-player story mode puts you in the boots of Ben Kerry for a 3 episode campaign. Single player training and scenarios help you beef up your battle-chops before you enter the sandbox multiplayer mode featuring both official and unofficial community-made maps and scenarios. Unique to the Arma 3 multiplayer mode is the Zeus mode, which gives players god-like influence over other players and the contingencies of the battlefield. A content editor also gives you the chance to design your own maps and scenarios for both the community and yourself. The Mac version of the game is currently in

The Mac version of the game is currently in experimental beta mode so you might want to hold off on buying the game until it receives official support. Then again, if you really can’t wait, you can buy the Windows version and then hype your friends on the Mac beta to help the process along.

A personal favorite of Ric’s and mine, this 3rd-person shooter from Yager Development studios takes you into the darker psychological recesses of war. Taking control of Special Operations Force’s Captain Martin Walker, you lead his three-person team through a single-player campaign in post-apocalyptic Dubai in search of mysterious Colonel John Konrad. I won’t spoil the story for you, but let me just say that it’s different and unique. Call of Duty and Battlefield should both take notice.

The gameplay is good too, featuring some exploration but mostly taking cover and shooting (similar to Gears of Wars games). You’ll find yourself short of ammo, time, and patience often enough that you might end up needing a new controller in this game that, for myself, calls to mind the 1999 film Fight Club, but instead of not being about war, it’s about war. Post-script spoiler alert.

This final entry comes from 11-bit studios and is easily one of the most intriguingly heartfelt approaches to the war genre in gaming history.

Our nation exists because of the people! We exist because of them. – Cidolfas Orlandu, Final Fantasy Tactics

Another personal favorite of Ric’s and mine, this scavenger-hunt game is about choices when choices are too few. Putting you in control of three civilians trapped in a building in a war-torn town, your goal is to keep these people alive amidst sniper fire that keeps you inside during the day, and among thieves and other civilians just trying to survive at night.

Only the dead have seen the end of war – attribution questionable

Resource management, scavenging missions, and housekeeping are central to the survival of your group. Decisions on how your players behave toward remaining survivors affect the morale and health of your characters in the randomly generated world brought to life in a beautifully animated tale of survival and loss in a devastated world.

This is far from an all-encompassing list, but any of these games should provide hours of good times. MacOS war games come in all shades, styles, and sizes and there’s no end in sight to the destruction you’ll reap upon your adversaries. That being said, keep count of your ammo, your eyes on your scopes, and your wits about you and don’t forget to be at least reasonably respectful to your fellow gamers. As Einstein was fond of saying: Say what you want about me and how I play the game, you’ve at least gotta admit that I’m the guy with the rocket launcher.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. – Albert Einstein

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