Best PvP Competitive Games on PC

Bludgeon

Bludgeon is a death match between bird-riding warriors wielding flails. Evade the spikes and your enemies' weapons in your feeble attempt to survive and become victorious. Grab some controllers and some friends, and prepare to be bludgeoned!

Inspired by games like Joust, Towerfall, Super Smash Brothers, and Bomberman, Bludgeon is being built with love, knowing there are few things more fun and worthwhile than a room full of friends enjoying a good video game together.

Features:

Simple but polished gameplay, centered around use of the flail – swing it, block with it, and throw it!
A unique, sensible control scheme.
Risk/reward based gameplay:
- If you have your weapon out, you can attack, but it hinders your movement.
- You can throw your weapon, but that leaves you temporarily defenseless.
- Keep your weapon out longer for a super-powerful charged attack!
Up to four players at once.
Several characters and stages to choose from.
Pain and death at the hands of your enemies – or, if you’re fortunate, sorrow and guilt as an undeserving survivor in an uncaring world.

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Bludgeon on Steam

Beat Me!

Fast-paced SS Bros.-style party game stylised as a puppet show. Level design is amazing with highly interactive environments. Extremely replayable due to level variable seeding. Intense fun for 1-6p.

This game has had the family gathered around shouting at the TV every night for the last several weeks now. My young fella’s favourite game (even though I keep beating him - NO MERCY!).

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– Real player with 23.4 hrs in game

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In my opinion the best game to play with my friends.

I would still have some suggestions after playing it a few times:

Maybe the golem is a little too fast, and the wizard is much too powerful, to have fun we stopped using them.

We also would have liked a random character selection mode, and why not a mode with a random character in each round?

Those are the “important” points I wanted to give you as a feedback, keep on going, we hope for new maps and new characters as well of course.

Keep it up, great game!

– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game

Beat Me! on Steam

Soldat 2

It’s a good, fun game, but still lacks a fair bit of refinement.

Hit registration is absolutely horrendous at the moment. You throw a knife at someone, you can see it hits the mark, because it then stops and drops to the floor, but no damage is done.

Similar thing with sniper rifles. You see the bullet pass through the opponent and it does zero damage.

Grenades. Sometimes you hit a person with all 3 grenades and they still don’t die, but they throw just one back at you and poof, you’re dead.

Player balancing system is just silly. When you join a server with an even number of players, you become the poor soul that is going to be tossed back and forth between teams whenever the team you’re in exceeds the other team’s score by 2 (flag caps or bases occupied). You might get thrown into the opposing team just as they’re about to lose. Lovely.

– Real player with 71.2 hrs in game

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I wouldn’t recommend buying this, even if it’s for nostalgia purposes.

The game is literally dead, whenever I attempt to play there’s noone online on any servers - I’ll join a game and play with bots for a while and occasionally 1 or 2 people may join but then leave after 10-15 minutes.

There’s no Oceanic community, that’s for sure. The only community is a few Russians and Germans that sometimes populate their server, but other than that - it’s essentially dead.

There’s also no effort to boost the player population, such as creating communities for specific regions, simple things such as in the Soldat 2 Discord you can create a rank specifically for their region so people can tag @Oceania or @Australia “let’s populate a server” - there’s none of that or anything close.

– Real player with 56.6 hrs in game

Soldat 2 on Steam

Battlerite

I can’t praise this game’s design enough. I don’t think there’s a competitive game that is better than this game from a design perspective. I know this game gets compared to Dota or League of Legends a lot, but it’s really more like a top-down fighting game with simple inputs.

This game just doesn’t have parts that aren’t fun. The games are always short, and even if you lose the first two rounds, your opponents aren’t so overpowered that you don’t have a chance for the rest of the game, there’s tons of potential for comebacks and a game is never over till it’s over.

– Real player with 934.0 hrs in game

Sadly, no matter how good it is, I can’t recommend a game whose developer misled their playerbase and abused their trust.

See, during a time of ever-dwindling population of Battlerite, they announced a Royale game mode “to fill a void in Battlerite” (dev blog ). It’s fair to say that the majority of Battlerite players never asked specifically for a Battle Royale, but the community ran along with it, considering “new game modes” had always been mentioned on its roadmap and people understood the game could use a more casual experience.

– Real player with 788.8 hrs in game

Battlerite on Steam

Bunny Reversi

a nice simple game of basic strategy. outwit the other player.

– Real player with 14.5 hrs in game

Fun little game that can be played both in single and multiplayer modes

AI on the bot has three levels, though I didn’t find 1 or 2 particularly difficult to beat

There’s a host of fluffies - bunnies to chase and chickens to punt, amid a very pretty landscape around the board, as well as a fair few counters types, similar to solitaire cardbacks

I’ll admit this isn’t my kinda game, as I didn’t grow up with Goh or similar, so it took me a while to learn. If you get stuck here’s a tip:

! Turn on Hints, because rather like WSG if you want to lose just play in the middle; this game is won in the corners and edges

– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game

Bunny Reversi on Steam

Chapeau

cute hats , cute idea , sweet Artstyle ! :)

sadly there is no story mode… :(

But still good for some short multiplayer sessions with friends .

I really like the concept.

– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game

What the … Crazy XD

Had a bit struggle at the beginning with controls after a few matches it works really well :)

You can play in varying Modes against friends and/or bots °

I played with a friend and we try to compete the Challenge mode. Its quite hard but funny ^^

Completely new gameplay/controls but its a cool Idea ;)

Gameplay 8/10

Controlls 7/10

Art/Graphics 9/10

Story 5/10

Would be great when the game get more Single-Player Content :)

– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game

Chapeau on Steam

Fishards

Great game to play with friends!

It has awesome gameplay, very cool retro looking graphics and a catchy soundtrack which you might find you self hum along to at times

Performance is really good, the game runs on pretty much any computer and doesn’t require expensive hardware to enjoy

Everything is of course not perfect though. There’s some issues like balancing of spells and classes could be better and they currently only support P2P multiplayer so playing with someone far away from you might not result in a good experience

– Real player with 17.5 hrs in game

Awesome game to pick up and play with a couple friends. I also found a responsive discord community with both devs and players being active meaning there will always be people to play with.

Was further positively surprised by a pretty prevalent skill expression which made it really rewarding to discover new combos and practice them. All over great game! :)

– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game

Fishards on Steam

Nurose

Nurose is online dueling game where you fight others with custom spells. It has a custom spell building system that allows players create unique attacks. The game has a high focus on gameplay customizability and has a high skill ceiling.

Custom Spells

Central to Nurose is the unique spell building system. Spells are built by visually programming glyphs in a staff. There are 30+ glyphs ranging from simple movement glyphs to complex conditional glyphs. You don’t need to level up to earn new glyphs or staffs. Each glyph is available from the start so everyone is on a even playing field.

The possibilities of this are endless. Some spells that you could make include:

Mines that explodes when the enemy is near.
A shield made up of projectiles in a semi circle.
Anti-missile attack that will look for enemy projectiles and destroy them.
Spell that makes decoy clones and moves them in specific directions.

What sets the great players apart are their skill in spell building and mastering their builds. When you have made a build, enter online matchmaking and fight others with your spells.

Online matchmaking

In online matchmaking you will fight others in a 1v1 best of 5 game. Each player has several staffs available. The game is made in a custom engine with rollback netcode for optimal online experience.

Nurose on Steam

Raiders Of The Lost Island

Full disclosure, I contributed Design work and work on some maps to the game. That being said…Getting to 100% was fun, relaxing.

Approximate amount of time to 100%: 20 Hours ~

Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10 in co-op 5/10 solo

Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 250 raids.

Is there a good guide available: One on Steam for the secret achievements, Rest don’t need a guide

Multiplayer achievements: Yes (but you can spawn players on the same PC by using controllers and keyboard)

Missable achievements: No.

– Real player with 59.8 hrs in game

Very cool little game! Has a variety of content and gameplay, to play with your family and friends. Also, the team mode is very cool. What I really like is the way you can set your objectives: it’s free for all. You can try gather the best loot, try to survive, try to sabotage other players, try to kill them and steel their loot, try to gather the special loot only, try to have the best hat, etc., it’s very open-ended.

Watch out for hot-heads, might pick up some heat from the other players :) Better served chilly.

– Real player with 30.6 hrs in game

Raiders Of The Lost Island on Steam

Wreckout

Get ready to Wreck Out as you spin & fling your way to brick-busting glory. Smash & grab power ups, unleash your character’s devastating ultimate ability, and compete head-to-head in knockout arena play.