14 Best Melee Combat Games on Steam

Elemental World Part 1: Rise of The Guardians is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing, and Action video game developed and published by Wise Owl Studios for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the fantasy-based world focused on evolving Massively Multiplayer Online elements that provide the players with the full freedom to be whom players want and earn their fortune and fame. During the gameplay, the player needs to learn self-reliance and struggle to establish his place in the land whether he is a risk taker, a collector, spy, or more. The player can select his favourite character at the beginning of the game and can jump into the world to fulfil the requirements of each quest. The player navigates the world from a third-person perspective and can use ranged and melee weapons to take down enemies while interacting with other players from all over the world. The game rewards the player with experience points which he can use to unlock further content. Elemental World Part 1: Rise of The Guardians includes prominent features such as Mining, Fishing, Melee Combat, Magic System, Hunger System, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooter, and Single-player video game available to play on Cross Platform. The game takes place in the in the fictional vice city in Miami and offers an open world environment. The story revolves around the protagonist named as Tommy Vercetti, following his release from jail. It is the sixth installment in the series of Grand Theft Auto and the first main released since 2001. After the protagonist is caught up in a drug deal, he attempts to find out those responsible while creating a criminal empire and enhancing his power from other criminal organization. The game uses third-person perspective to navigate the environment and offers a variety of weapons and vehicles. The player can explore the world from third-person view either on foot or by vehicle. The objective of the player is to complete a set of missions to earn points and face off enemies using different weapons, melee attacks, explosives, and firearms. After making enough money, the player can purchase different properties, tools, and arms. With high-quality graphics, detailed environment, engaging gameplay, and a superb story, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is the best game to play and enjoy.

Superhot is an addictive, First-person Shooter and Single-player video game developed and published by Superhot Team. The game takes place in the stunning world and revolves around the traditional FSP element gameplay with the options to take out foes using weapons and guns. The game becomes slow when the player attack on an enemy, and he gets some time to handle his situation and respond appropriately. It offers a minimalist art style gameplay, in which the color of enemies are red and black is the color weapons. The player can use melee attacks and weapons to take down the enemy. There are a series of levels, and each level is full of action. Select your weapon, and engage yourself in fighting gameplay experience. Defeat the enemies and earn experience points to unlock or upgrade your weapons. The game becomes challenging, as the player advanced. The player can interact with objects and can use them against enemies to slay them. With impressive gameplay, wonderful visuals, and exciting soundtracks, Superhot is the best game to play and enjoy.

Overgrowth is an Action, Parkour, Martial Arts, Third-person Perspective and Single-player Adventure video game released by Wolfire Games. It is the sequel to Lugaru and takes place in the pre-industrial world populated with fighter wolves, rabbits, rats, cats and dogs. The story of the game focuses on the Island known as Lugaru and cast you in the role of the ninja rabbit. Your task is to explore the unforgivable environment and take part in brutal combat with a variety of enemies and weapons. You have to rank-up your level to enhance your abilities and skills. Navigate the environment from a third-person perspective, fight against different creatures and take down them using melee weapons in fierce combat. As the game progress, other weapons and tools will be unlocked. Show off your fighting skills and impress your friends. Your character can run, walk, fight and jump. Maintain your health and avoid the enemy attack to progress. Compete against different foes in several levels and engage yourself in 3D environment experience. Jump from building to building and stealth and melee weapons to silently take down your foes. Open-world Environment, lots of Tools, powerful NPCs, Stealth element, challenging Objects, etc. are the prominent features in the game. Overgrowth is the best game for hardcore players.

Saints Row 2 is an Action-Adventure, Open World, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Volition and published by THQ. It is the second game in the series of Saints Row. The game takes place in the fictional city known as Stilwater 5-year after the release of the first game. It casts you in the role of the protagonist and tasked you to lead a Third Street gang and compete against three evil gangs who threatened the city. It offers an open environment and enables you to use different weapons and melee attacks to take down your foes. It offers the similar gameplay like GTA series. There are different types of vehicles, boats, airplanes and motorcycles to drive. The game lets you explore the game world either by vehicles or on foot. Earn money by completing missions and use them to buy a weapon, vehicles and more. Move freely around the world, navigate the environment and play with your style. The world is distributed into 45 neighborhoods and twenty districts. Saints Row 2 offers key features such as Co-op, Killer Combat, Freedom to Explore, challenging Missions, Customization and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

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.

No More Room in Hell by NMRiH Dev Team is a super cool blend of Horror-Survival, Action-Adventure, First Person Shooting (FPS) and Multiplayer Co-Op elements. The game is basically inspired by George Romeo’s Of the Dead series and is set in an era of Destruction and the end of the world because of a deadly virus outbreak. The virus turns the people into undead and hence the whole population of earth is converting into one of them on a very fast pace. The ones still immune to the virus are cornered into a very remote area and are living in fear and hunger. You are the one among the people and it is now your duty to liberate the human populace from fear. You must gather up with a team of professionals and take the matters into your own hands. Start by killing off the undead, save and gather the people who are still uninfected, bring them to shelter, scavenge for food and other necessary items etc. The Multiplayer Co-Op mode allows you to team up with other people and go on to encounter the undead as a team, kill the zombies etc. Some cool features of No More Room in Hell include Dynamically created Maps, Multiple gaming modes, a lot of NPCs, Modern-Weaponry, Both long and short distance (Melee) combats, Realistic graphics, a great story of the game and an amazingly addictive and involving game-play etc.

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings developed by Polish Studios, CD Projekt Red and published by Atari, Inc., Badnai Namco Games and CyberFront in the same year of 2011. This super addicting game is a sequel to The Witcher and is packed with great Action-Adventure, RPG and intense Hack and Slash elements. The game is based on the story from a novel written by a Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. From its first appearance in the market to the present day, this game is a real success. Graphics, game-play and story-line is quite to its predecessor. With an open world gaming environment, Stealth mode, tons of new content and bug fixes, this game attracts the players a lot. The Witcher, genetically mutated Geralt takes you to an amazing land of wonders. Battles with monsters and humans and their extremely disastrous super powers are a key element in the success of the game. Playing this game won’t cost you a bit of tiredness and make you feel sorry for your precious time. Give it a try and experience an extremely engaging and thrilling nature of the game.

Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooter and Interactive Drama video game made by Quantic Dream. This Psyche thriller Film Noir drama is set in the city of New York and its story revolves around the character of protagonist Lucas Kane. Lucas Kane gets assigned on a task to solve the murder cases committed by a man who controls people’s minds by using his super natural powers and then kills them. The Killer gets aware about the activities of Lucas and follows him to a Dinner where he forces his spell over Lucas’s brain and makes him kill a man. You must get into the character of the protagonist and find out the truth about the killer’s spell over you. You must also speed up your investigations in order to stop the killer from killing more innocent people. You must go through the sessions of physical and mental therapy to reduce the manipulation caused by the killers spell. Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy provides with different game endings, all based up on the actions performed by you and the path selected by you. A mental health bar keeps on telling you about your sanity levels so you must keep track of that or else you’ll end up killing another person. With an amazing psycho-horror game story, state of the art graphics and an engaging game-play, Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy is a great game to play, you must try it out.

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is an amazing Multiplayer Online Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game by Tom Banner Studios. The game is set in Medieval Era and offers a Half-Life 2 and Age of Chivalry type of game-play and focuses on Melee combats primarily. It allows you to engage yourself into amazingly bloody battles against the enemies from a first or a third person perspective and enjoy Hacking and Slashing your way through the hordes of enemies using your swords, bows and arrows, Maces and Catapults etc. Chivalry: Medieval Warfare offers Ballistae, Catapults and Boiling oil as the secondary and the most damaging weapons as well and allows you to use against the enemies when waging wars and leading the troops. Because of the Multiplayer nature of the game, Chivalry: medieval Warfare lets you enjoy objective-based gameplay and take part in multiple game modes such as Free for All, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Last Team Standing, King of the Hill, Capture the Flag and Team objective etc. Chivalry Medieval Warfare offers a number of character classes as well and lets you choose the character you like from Archers, men at Arms, Vanguards, knights etc. The game offers a whole load of amazing weapons all based up on the character you select along with all the special character specific abilities and skills. With a wonderfully engaging and quite immersive gameplay, fantastic story, brilliant visuals and DLC, Chivalry Medieval Warfare is one amazing game to play and enjoy.

Half-Life is a Super Thrilling Sci-Fi FPS (First person Shooter) video game by Valve Corporation. This brilliant game is one of the trend setters in FPS genre and it provided with a wonderful FPS series of games that actually ruled over the world. With a huge following and a worldwide acclaim, Half-Life was one of the best game of its time. Sci-Fi and FPS characteristics, great mechanics and an engaging game-play made the players love this game. The game is set in a Remote Desert situated in the City of New Mexico and it takes you to the premises of Black mesa Research Facility, a Secret Complex that resembles greatly to the Area 51. Half Life lets you be a skilled Scientist and a Theoretical Physicist and tells the story of the events and aftermath of a Black Mesa Experiment gone wrong. The Experiment goes horribly wrong and as a result an undefinable Phenomenon happens that opens up portals in the facility and the Aliens swarm down.No your task is to survive by killing the alien enemies at sight because they have no mercy for humans at all. on the other hand HECU (Hazardous Environment Combat Unit) keeps on struggling against the aliens. In order to stop the widespread chaos and panic HECU tries to suppress the matter by confiscating all of the data and Scientists related to the Incident. Freeman gets barred to but soon with the help of fellow scientists he reaches down to the other end of the portal, in the Xen territory in order to eliminate the Nihilanth, who is keeping the portal opened. Half Life offers a strong and fantastic narrative, great story amazing gameplay as well as loads of fantastic perks, cool weapons etc.

Left 4 Dead 2 is a Zombie, Horror Survival video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. Left 4 Dead 2 is a First-person Shooter video game set on a global scale, infected by the Green Flu which is responsible to transform humans into extremely aggressive and deadly zombies. The story of the game revolves around the four survivors Coach, Ellis, Nick and Rochelle who are immune to the flu. In order to survive they travel from place to place items like food, medicines, weapons etc. You can choose one of the characters as protagonist and play the game. Because of being the main character of the game you act as their leader. The game allows you to use different firearms and melee weapons according to the scenario on a specific point in the game. For example if you encounter a zombie or multiple in the shape of hordes, you can engage in close combats using melee weapons, and if you are on a safe distance you can use guns like Pistols or snipers to shoot down the zombies. The game provides you with a multiplayer gaming mode, so you can play with other online players too. You also get to play 5 campaigns, in which you get provided with safe houses and check points and a goal to survive till the end of the campaign. Left 4 Dead 2 is an amazingly addictive and quite thrilling game with a super action and adventure packed game-play. Left 4 Dead 2 is available to play on Windows, Mac, Xbox, Steam and Linux platforms.

The Witcher is an Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game created by CD Projekt RED. The game is based on a novel of the same name and is set in a Medieval Era. The story of the game revolves around Geralt a Known Witcher and a Monster Hunter gifted with supernatural powers. The Witcher offers Top-Down and First Person gaming perspectives and allows you to engage in the most epic battles against the monsters and Beasts. You can choose anyone of the three fighting techniques according to the scenarios, use whatever weapons you see fit for specific type of battles and are capable of slashing the foes. The Witcher lets you fight against a number of different kinds of enemies (Monsters, Beasts etc.) and use your supernatural powers to defeat or tame them. The game consists of seven chapters and features best HD graphics, Hardcore Action-packed and engaging game-play and a well written story.

Broforce is a cool Platform-based, Side-Scrolling Run and Gun video game by Free Lives. The game sets you up into the character of a Hypermasculine Action-hero and a Commando named as Bro who goes on a journey to save his Bro Teammates and to kill the terrorists. Secondary objectives of the game include enemy Bosses elimination and the recovery of War Prisoners who are held captive by the enemies. Broforce offers a greatly inspired gameplay and mechanics from the popular Metal Slug series games and allows you to enjoy a similar gameplay with a different story and locations. Your task is to simply go deep behind the enemy lines and eliminate hordes of enemy forces operatives, blast your way through mechanical beings, attacking Heli Copters, tanks, use a number of fantastic upgrades (a number of different weapons, firepower and others) on the way to finish the game levels and enjoy a blazing action and thrill filled gameplay. With an amazingly fast-paced action and thrill, cool visuals and an addictive game-play, Broforce is a fantastic game to play.