The closest games to Metal Gear Rising Revengeance are Bayonetta, Astral Chain and Devil May Cry 5. Below, 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, and what does not.
Revengeance is one mechanic done perfectly: blade mode slows time and lets you cut anything along any line you draw, and the parry has no dedicated button, so defence is an attack into the attack. It is four hours long, it is ridiculous, and the soundtrack changes when a boss is nearly dead.
Metal Gear Rising Revengeance released on the PlayStation 3. The list below is not restricted to that console — a recommendation is only useful if you can actually play it, so it spans generations and platforms.
Platinum's own template, and the deepest combat they have built.
Platinum with a second body on a chain, and the best-produced of them.
The best-feeling character action game of the generation.
Parry as the whole combat system, taken completely seriously.
Style-driven action built around one unusual central idea.
Underrated Platinum, if you want more of the same combat.
Boss rush only, and every fight is a memorised pattern.
Modern action with parry-heavy combat and a strong combo system.
Kamiya at his strangest, and the most mechanically dense Platinum game.
Several of these have their own page here: games like Astral Chain, games like Devil May Cry 5, games like Stellar Blade.
The 3 of these picks that have a page here, and the console each is catalogued under. Most are on more platforms than one — remasters and back catalogues move constantly — so treat this as where to start looking rather than a complete availability list.
| Game | Catalogued under |
|---|---|
| Astral Chain | Switch |
| Devil May Cry 5 | PS2 |
| Stellar Blade | PS5 |
Bayonetta. Platinum's own template, and the deepest combat they have built.
Bayonetta, Astral Chain and Devil May Cry 5 are the closest. The full list of Metal Gear Rising Revengeance similar games is on this page — 9 of them, each with the reason it is here rather than a genre tag that happens to match.
The picks above span platforms rather than sticking to the PS3, because the thing worth copying about Metal Gear Rising Revengeance is not a property of the hardware. The PS3 list further down is the place to go for more from that library.
Because the thing you liked about Metal Gear Rising Revengeance is not a property of the hardware. Restricting the list to one console would drop most of the good answers, so the picks above span platforms and eras. If you specifically want more from that library, the PS3 list further down is the place to start.
By hand, one game at a time, on what the source game actually does — its pacing, its movement, its difficulty, its tone. Genre tags alone put Metal Gear Rising Revengeance next to games that feel nothing like it, so they are not the basis for this list. Each pick carries the reason it is here so you can judge it yourself.
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If you already know what kind of answer you want, these are the same list cut by genre — and each one says what it leaves out as well as what it includes:
More from the PlayStation 3 library, each with its own recommendations page: