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First Cut: Samurai Duel

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

Should you play it?

Every strike is lethal in this blood-soaked sword fighting game. Slash, clash, parry, dodge and watch limbs fly. Choose your move carefully - the first cut is also the last.

What works

  • Challenging and satisfying combat
  • Beautiful pixel art and gore effects
  • Extensive customization and modifiers
  • Varied game modes including co-op and duels
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Lack of online multiplayer
  • High difficulty and input-reading ai can frustrate
  • Short campaign length
  • Some levels have visibility issues
  • No level editor or replay system yet

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Fate/EXTELLA LINK

  • Roof Rage

  • Colt Canyon

  • Full Mojo Rampage

  • Cobalt

  • Shank 2

Less competitive

Games that feels like First Cut: Samurai Duel but with less competition against others

  • Olija

  • Anomaly Agent

  • Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse

  • Astral Ascent

  • MannaRites

  • Rampage Knights

Less social

Games that feels like First Cut: Samurai Duel but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Dead Cells

  • Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-

  • Deepening Fire

  • Ato

  • Turbo Kid

  • Nidhogg 2

Less intimate

Games that feels like First Cut: Samurai Duel but with less focus on close relationships

  • Armed with Wings: Rearmed

  • It Has My Face

  • Half Minute Hero: The Second Coming

  • Griefhelm

  • LOST EPIC

  • Soulfire

Choose your own criteria ->

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

First Cut: Samurai Duel: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Domination.

Last update: 04/08/2026