The best PS4 beat 'em up games
50 beat 'em up games came out on PlayStation 4. These are the 31 best reviewed. Ranked by Metacritic score where a game has one, otherwise by its RAWG player rating; player ratings only count with at least 25 votes behind them.
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Castle Crashers Remastered
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this Remastered edition of the popular 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
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Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
Guacamelee! is strongly inspired by colorful Mexican aesthetics and folklore. Your protagonist, Juan Aguacate, used to be a regular farmer until one day…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge reunites Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello to kick shell in a beautifully realized pixel art…
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Guacamelee! 2
Brawling has never been more beautiful! The long-awaited sequel to the smash hit action-platformer is here: Guacamelee!
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Streets of Rage 4
Streets of Rage, known as Bare Knuckle (ベア・ナックル Bea Nakkuru) in Japan, is a trilogy of beat 'em up games developed and published by SEGA in the 1990s.
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Dragon's Crown Pro
Journey to the kingdom of Hydeland, and seek the Dragon’s Crown! The most beautiful 2D action RPG in history, which enchanted over a million adventurers…
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River City Girls
There's trouble once again on the mean streets of River City, but this time the boys are in over their heads!
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Sifu
Is one life enough to have Kung Fu? In Sifu, you play a young Kung-Fu student on a path of vengeance.
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Cake Bash
Pick your favourite cake and battle in a variety of lifelike arenas with unique goals - cover yourself in sweeties or hurl fruit into a pie, there’s…
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game - Complete Edition
Scott Pilgrim is back! Team up with friends to battle your way through waves of tough enemies to fight for love.
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Double Dragon Revive
Set in a post-apocalyptic New York, Double Dragon is the story of Billy and Jimmy Lee, twin brothers trained in the fighting style of Sou-Setsu-Ken.
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Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle
Relive the glory days of cooperative arcade games with the Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle! This comprehensive collection includes seven classic games, each…
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Punch Club
Punch Club is a cross between sports management and The Sims, packed together in the retro pixel-art style.
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Knack 2
Meet Knack, a little guy with surprising moves and the ability to transform from big to small and back again in this family-friendly adventure from the…
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Dungeon Punks
Dungeon Punks is an arcade beat-em-up RPG that evokes the classics like Golden Axe, and mixes in tag-team fighting gameplay inspired by the Marvel vs…
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9 Monkeys of Shaolin
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
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Mother Russia Bleeds
Mother Russia Bleeds is an independent beat 'em up title developed by Le Cartel Studio.
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Foul Play
Play as the daemon-hunter Baron Dashforth in a side-scrolling co-op brawler set entirely on the grand spectacle of a theatre stage that rewards…
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99Vidas
Every gaming generation had its hallmark -- and "99Vidas" recaptures them all! Final Fight, Double Dragon, Battletoads, Streets of Rage… What do all of…
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Viking Squad
Grab your trusty sword, strap on a fearsome helmet, and plunge into the chaotic fray of Viking Squad!
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Gekido: Kintaro's Revenge
A year has passed since the epic battle that decided the fate of mankind and claimed the life of the beloved Angela.
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Redeemer: Enhanced Edition
REDEEMER is an intense Brawler where you will punch, hack and blast your way through enemies using fists, hammers, fire arms and even the environment.
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Override: Mech City Brawl
Super Charged Mega EditionSuper Charged Mega Edition includes Season Pass, delivering 4 extra mechs and 16 new skins post-launch, as well as instant…
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Deadpool
Deadpool wants to be the main protagonist of the game developed by High Moon Studios and in order to make them develop the game, he plants explosives in…
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Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues
Choose a side, master your moves, and embrace your destiny in an epic beat 'em up adventure inspired by the hit show.
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Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl
Play as Jay and Silent Bob in a retro 8-bit sidescrolling brawler. Go solo or team up with a friend.
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Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
A modern take on the 25 year franchise, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid showcases stunning graphics and vivid details.
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Override 2: Super Mech League
The gigantic robot brawler is Mech-ing a super-charged comeback in Override 2: Super Mech League!
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Knack
Knack is a beat 'em up platformer released by SCE Japan. It is the first title in the series, followed by Knack II, released 4 years afterward.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed for PlayStation 4 — Action and Beat 'em up, from Aheartfulofgames, 2024.
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Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers
When Uncle Grandpa accidentally drives the UG-RV through multiple dimensions, he picks up some surprise passengers in the form of Gumball, Steven…
Every other PS4 beat 'em up game
- Aeon Must Die!
- Arcade Archives: 64th Street
- Arcade Archives: Bravoman
- Arcade Archives: Crime Fighters
- Arcade Archives: Vendetta
- Asterix & Obelix: Slap Them All!
- Breakneck City
- Bud Spencer & Terence Hill: Slaps and Beans
- Dawn of the Monsters
- Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons
- Kamen Rider: Battride War Genesis
- Mayhem Brawler
- Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Overdrive
- Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn
- The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors
- The TakeOver
- Tunche
- Uppers
- Wonder Blade
Best PS4 games by genre
- Action 1,987
- Adventure 1,431
- Indie 1,307
- Role-playing 824
- Casual 479
- Strategy 474
- Simulation 457
- Platformer 402
- Puzzle 381
- Sports 348
- Shooter 333
- Action-adventure 270
- Arcade 263
- Action role-playing 222
- Racing 213
- Fighting 165
- First-person shooter 124
- Shoot 'em up 112
- Visual novel 94
- Survival horror 75
- Family 62
- Stealth 60
- Party 57
- Hack and slash 55
- Roguelike 51
- Beat 'em up 50
- Tactical role-playing 50
- Survival 46
- Rhythm 43
- Massively Multiplayer 40
- Turn-based strategy 36
- Metroidvania 33
- Music 33
- Third-person shooter 30
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