Action-oriented games almost always have sections dedicated to loads of enemies. Others are all about wave after wave of bandits, monsters, or robots looking to tear you apart, that you get to slay through. To 🍸do it right requires great combat, game design, and stellar foes for you to killꩵ.

Like anything in gꦇaming, sending hordes of enemies is an art. Too many games fall short, making it a chore to get through one more wave of oncoming hostiles. When it is done right, however, it can become the driving force that ticks away the hours you pour into that experience. Here are some of the best.

Updated on October 12th, 2024 by Hilton Webster: There are few joys in life more enticing than rushing into a battlefield and cutting a bloody swathe through leagues of enemies without breaking a sweat. We've added even more games that let you fulfill that fantasy.

16 Days Gone

Days Gone was not the most interesting game in the world, and the subsequ🌊ent reaction of the game's writer to it's reception was...odd, to say the least. Deacon St. John might not have been the most exciting protagonist, but at least he let you confront hordes of zombies with a little bit of exuberance.

The big draw of Days Gone were the massive hordes of zombies that roam the world. Mind you, these hordes don't actually start to appear until near the end of the game, but they are genuinely massive, with each member of it a fully realized enemy. It's silly fun to blow holes in their numbers while 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:dashing around on your bike.

15 ൲ Dynasty Warriors 𒐪

Everyone has heard of Dynasty Warriors now, having absorbed the absurdity of the g🌳ames through osmosis even if you've never played them. Pulling heavily from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms book, the Dynasty Warriors games have you play as pseudo-legendary figures from Chinese History.

The people are real, ꦕof course. The pseudo-legendary part comes in the ♓fact that they can face down literal thousands of enemies one-on-one. But what does realism matter when entire battlefields become fodder for your sword to cleave through?

14 💎 Demon Chaos

Here's one you probably haven't heard of. The PS2 is lauded for its technological advancements, many of which haven't quite been replicated. A lot of that was in how it processed graphics, letting you do some genuinely impressive things without dragging down performanc🌄e. A tech demo turned real game, Demon Chaos is an example of the PS2's prowess.

Also known as Ikusagami i🤪n Japan, Demon Chaos ran at what was a functionalꦉly locked 60fps while simultaneously having a maximum of 65,535 enemies on screen at once. In other regards, it plays quite similar to Dynasty Warriors, though the absurdity of over 65,000 enemies all at once is a number no other game has reached yet.

Ikusagam🍌i never released in North America, with the Demon Chaos na♋me used only in its European release.

13 Gears 5

The horde mode became a craze after 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Gears of War 2. Thౠe hype died down over the years when the rest of th🅰e industry stopped chasing after that success, but Gears did not stop.

The formula of a Gears of War has changed slightly over the years. Its core combat has stayed roughly the same, with new additions here and there, but the cover shooter still has some of the goriest and most satisfying fighting in any third-pe𓃲rson shooter. If you want to blow up, chainsaw in half, and shoot aliens, then there is nothing better than the Xbox flagship series.

12 Destiny 2

Bungie stuck to its FPS roots from Halo and took what it learned into Destiny, then expanded that recipe with🥀 multiplayer and RPGಌ elements. Between both entries in the series, people over the years have gotten to know its interesting characters, hostile creatures, and the best gear to collect.

Whether it is an event, quest, or raid, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Destiny 2 loves to throw all types of opponents for you to blast away. With 🦂superb shooting mechanics, time flies by when mowing down each incoming w☂ave.

11 Left 4 Dꦯead 2 🔯

A classic zombie shooter that unfortunately hasn't seen a third entry, although we did get 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Back 4 Blood. Not many games have stood the test of time quite like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Left 4 Dead 2 has in terms of player count over the years.

There is a good reason why the zombie shooter has endured since its release in 2009 — it is a great game to play with a group of friends. Few things can beat gathering some b🔯uddies as you bash, shoot, and slice 💎your way through the undead to make it to a safe house.

10 🧸 Warhammer: Vermi𓆉ntide 2

Aliens, robots, and zombies have gotten stale, so why not kill rats? 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Vermintide 2 is like a fantasy Left 4𝔍 Dead, set in the Warhammer univ𒅌erse, as you kill rat-like creatures with various classes for you to select.

The combat has that visceral feeling which never feels stal🎶e when hacking away the flesh of hordes of enemies. The various classes open the door for different playstyles, and the loot gathered also lets you build up your preferred class. That extra depth gives it more meat than a typical slasher.

9 🗹 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mount & Blade II allows you to virtually reenact epic battles, giving you the same fꦐeeling you might get from your favorite medieval films. Seeing an army of men in armor has a cinematic qualꦦity that delivers a grand scale to the experience.

The different modes let you find different ways to enjoy yourself, with both online and singleplayer offerings. Get into massive multiplayer battles, or goof around in the sandbox world of the singleplayer. Bannerlord is all about player choice, whether th﷽at is combat-focused or not.

8 Killing Floor 2 🌜

A modern Left 4 Dead-like that takes out the objectives and focuses on slaying waves of the undead, each with unique abilities and strength. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Killing Floor 2 has plen🍃ty of classe♍s that let you hone your skills with assault rifles, fire-based weapons, and more.

To make a match messier is the mechanic that blood does not despawn. Sure, body parts that have exploded all over a room eventually disappear. The blood stays, so as you go through each wave, you paint the꧒ level in red.

7 𝄹 7 Days To Die

The core premise of 7 Days to Die is quite simple: survive each night by finding food, water, and shelter. On night seven, the moon goes blood red, and hordes of zombies come to hunt you down. Its twist on zombie survival games is refreshing, ♛and brutally difficult.

It is perfect with a crew, as you create a community and see how many days or weeks you can survive in the wasteland before getting ♊eaten a♎live or dying from dysentery. The likelihood of the latter is quite high.