26 Great Games Like Heavenly Sword

Our experts have spent time searching for great games similar to Heavenly Sword and have found the following:

Heavenly Sword, similar to Enslaved, offers a heady mix of heroic storytelling and narrative. The fighting is styled on martial arts and the main character, Nariko, uses a weapon called the Heavenly Sword which changes into one of three forms depending on what attack stance the player uses as part of a unique fighting style.

Unfortunately, Heavenly Sword is not available on Android, Mac, PS4, PS5, Switch or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme, and at a lower age rating:

Heavenly Sword

Game Details

Release Date: 12/11/2007

Platforms: PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Players: 1

Genres: Adventure, Narrative (Action, Fighting and Traversal)

Accessibility: 1 feature

Components: 3D Third-Person

Developer: Ninja Theory (@NinjaTheory)

Costs: Purchase cost

6 Similar Games Short List

Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Heavenly Sword. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Heavenly Sword.

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Release Date: 19/11/2016, updated in 2017

Platforms: PS3 and PS4

Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is an action-adventure game set several years after the events of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. You play Nathan Drake, a happily married former treasure hunter coaxed out of retirement by his brother. This leads into...

Horizon Zero Dawn

Release Date: 01/03/2017

Platforms: PC and PS4

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

Horizon Zero Dawn, and the follow-up game Horizon Forbidden West, has a post-apocalyptic feel familiar from movies like Planet of the Apes. It plunges you into an overgrown landscape with now-crumbling remnants of modern life where animalistic machines...

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Release Date: 23/11/2010

Platforms: PS3 and Xbox 360

Components: 3D Third-Person

Enslaved, similar to Heavenly Sword offers a heady mix of heroic storytelling and narrative. You control a character called Monkey (played by Andy Serkis) in a third-person perspective and use power-staff combat moves, running...

Horizon Forbidden West

Release Date: 18/02/2022

Platforms: PS4 and PS5

Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

Horizon Forbidden West is a post-apocalyptic action-adventure where you explore an overgrown landscape with now-crumbling remnants of modern life. The story of Aloy continues as she sets out to investigate a plague terminating from an arcane frontier...

Prince of Persia

Prince of Persia (Series)

Release Date: 03/10/1989

Platforms: PS2, PS3, Xbox and Xbox 360

Components: 3D Third-Person

Prince of Persia is a long-standing game series dating back to the early 90s. The games all feature the titular prince who must escape a maze of platform-based levels. The game first impressed with its unusually fluid movement and life-like animation....

Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider (Series)

Release Date: 09/11/2015, updated in 2019

Platforms: GameCube, Mac, PC, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

Tomb Raider is a longstanding series that has been rebooted in recent years. This means it not only gets a fresh coat of paint like a re-release but is built from the ground up. All the games feature Lara Croft as the titular hero. She shoots, runs,...

7 Similar Games Long List

Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Heavenly Sword. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Heavenly Sword.

Bayonetta 3

Bayonetta 3 (Series)

Release Date: 29/10/2009, updated in 2022

Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Bayonetta 3 is the latest fighting game in the Bayonetta franchise, where you use fantastical guns and outlandish attacks to defeat monsters and hordes of enemies in fast-paced combat. As you move through the stages, you attack enemies with your wide...

God of War

Release Date: 20/04/2018

Platforms: PS4

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

You play super-strong Norse fantasy hero Kratos as he takes his son Atreus on a brutal quest in the wake of his mother’s death. The exploration, puzzle solving, climbing and fighting gameplay intertwines with a mythological family drama played out in...

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Series)

Release Date: 14/08/2014, updated in 2020

Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Switch and Wii U

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

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Release Date: 15/02/2012

Platforms: PS Vita

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Uncharted: Golden Abyss is an action-adventure game. It's a spin-off of the Uncharted series, although also a substantial experience in its own right that features the series protagonist, Nate. As with the other games you explore, run, jump and shoot...

Horizon Zero Dawn The Frozen Wilds

Release Date: 07/11/2017

Platforms: PC and PS4

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World

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Release Date: 23/02/2017, updated in 2018

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Components: 3D Third-Person

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Release Date: 15/10/2020

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

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16 Video Games Like Heavenly Sword Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Heavenly Sword. This includes games from the Fighting, Action, Adventure, Narrative and Traversal genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

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7 Video Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Heavenly Sword

If you like the sound of Heavenly Sword but it doesn’t offer the accessibility you require, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with more Accessibility Features. You can view a full breakdown in our Heavenly Sword Accessibility Report.

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26 Great Games Like Heavenly Sword

Game Details

6 Similar Games Short List

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Horizon Zero Dawn

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Horizon Forbidden West

Prince of Persia (Series)

Tomb Raider (Series)

7 Similar Games Long List

Bayonetta 3 (Series)

God of War

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Series)

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

Horizon Zero Dawn The Frozen Wilds

Nier: Automata

Raji: An Ancient Epic

3 Younger Content Rating than Heavenly Sword

16 Video Games Like Heavenly Sword Based on Genre

7 Video Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Heavenly Sword

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16 Video Games Like Heavenly Sword Based on Genre

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