Ascendant is set in a magical dungeon where you must recapture the souls of escaped creatures. Take on the role of a fearsome mage collecting wand caps and amulets to unlock powerful abilities. Defeat legendary abominations to acquire ascendant caps and fight your way to freedom.

"Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate" is a side-scrolling beat'em up with the heart of a fighting game, supporting cross-platform pixel art anime action with up to 8P online multiplayer and all the characters from "Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Overdrive"!

Throw yourself into an epic 3D beat'em up adventure with adorable knights, full of surprising worlds and situations. Grab your buddy and play in 2 player co-op to save the princess, but this is only the beginning!

Retro console-style beat 'em up action RPG, Giant weapons, massive monsters, Lightning Ring, 9 fantasy classes, and Sword of Legend.

War has started! Rangok Skies is a vertically scrolling arcade shooter inspired by the genre classics. Highly replayable with 4 different characters, each with their own unique ship, weapons, and bombs. Includes 2-player local co-op.

YO, DUDES! ROCK'N SCROLLLLLLLLLLL!

SLAM INTO THE STONE ZONE FOR A WILD BATTLE OF THE BANDS. IT'S YOU AND THE REST OF THE STONE PROTECTORS AGAINST EVIL ZOK AND HIS WHOLE SUCKY GROUP. YOU GET TO PLAY CLIFFORD, CORNELIUS, CHESTER, MAXWELL, OR ANGUS. MAKE SPECIAL MOVES AND ATTACKS IN SCROLLING 16 MEG. SOLO OR TWO AT A TIME. AND GO FOR A MONSTER HIT BEFORE THEY BLOW YOU OFF THE STAGE. YOU'VE GOT COOL WEAPONS TO FIGHT WITH, 10 LEVELS TO EXPLORE, AND A WHOLE GARAGE FULL OF POWERUPS. SO GRAB YOUR AXE AND LET'S JAM!

Game Features:

•90s Arcade Style Beat'em up Gameplay
• Different Characters to Choos From
• 2V2 Fighting Mode
• Rocking Sound Track.

In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind, the team faces off against a robotic reincarnation of the Power Rangers' long-time nemesis. Robo-Rita has conjured a portal to send herself back in time so she can finally vanquish the Power Rangers by forming an alliance with her younger self.

Thirty-five years ago, the dense, bustling metropolis of New Libertis was born from an explosive boom of technological marvels. This new industrial renaissance saw the rapid expansion of the “Iron City”, pioneered by industrialist Hieronymus Frazer, founder of the now-omnipresent FALCORP.

Rising from the center of the city, the monolithic New Babel Tower siphons energy from the outer zones to power the glowing lamps of FALCORP’s countless labs. In its shadow the city’s workers - alongside gangsters, brawlers, and mechanized humanoid “autos” - spend their lives relegated to inhuman conditions with no hope of escape.

With almost limitless resources at his disposal, Frazer now seeks to secure his legacy and usher in a grand ascension for humanity’s elite. To that end, anything and everything may be sacrificed for his greater vision.

Bold, brazen champions will rise in the fight for tomorrow - the fate of the city is in your hands!

Heart-pounding 2D action returns! Play until your fingers hurt and zombie heads explode! Survive while drenched in blood. The bloody feast begins at your fingertips!
Experience the ultimate in arcade-style thrills! Once you start, you can't stop! Use precise controls to blow zombie heads off and take down bosses. Prepare for a shocking ending!

In River City Saga: Three Kingdoms, we had our beloved hero Kunio
as Guan Yu wander throughout the warring states of feudal China.
The story picks up from the aftermath of the Battle of Red Cliffs and
continues on until it reaches its historical climax at the Battle of
Wuzhang Plains. With a total of 100 unique River City characters,
the story will not end without a crazy, comic twist.

Vengeance Hunters is not just any other 90’s era beat’em’up! It’s a game that was developed to play on the legendary Neo-Geo MVS arcade and AES home console hardware but was designed for a newer era of beat’em’up action enthusiasts. Please enjoy fighting a vast array of enemies across multiple stages, sublevels and hidden areas while searching for collectibles and other items that will help you along the way!

Night Slashers is a pulse-pounding, horror-themed beat 'em up game, in a nightmarish world filled with bloodthirsty creatures and unspeakable horrors. Prepare to step into the shoes of the unlikely heroes, as they battle hordes of supernatural foes and terrifying monsters.

In Night Slashers, you're not just fighting for survival: you're battling to save the world from a supernatural apocalypse. Join the fight, experience the adrenaline, and embrace the horror. Your darkest nightmares await…

Night Slashers is a classic arcade game that originated in 1994 and still stands as one of the best titles in the beat 'em up genre to this day! Gameplay consists of seven distinct stages, each subdivided into multiple sections. You can advance by navigating from left to right within each stage, combating waves of enemies to progress.

Attempting to proceed further without eliminating foes halts the screen’s scroll until all the threats are dealt with. Upon reaching the end of each level, a climactic showdown with a formidable boss awaits. Achieve victory over the boss to advance.

When Maiden City faces the fury of a secret criminal organization called "The Liberators" seeking to control the city and its inhabitants through violence, fear, and chaos, it’s up to the Maiden Cops to bring the crackdown! Join Priscilla, Nina, and Meiga as they fight to eradicate crime and restore peace and justice!

Maiden Cops is an old-school side-scrolling beat 'em up packed with arcade-style action and lovely monster gals. Pick a policewoman and take to the streets against buxom gangs, unlock special skins to customize your fighter, pick up gimmick weapons, chase high scores with combo chain bonuses and lay down the law using each character’s unique skills.

With premium-level pixel art, fluid animation and a breathtaking soundtrack, it’s all in good fun that’ll keep you coming back for another brawl!

Sweeping across iconic locations of the first three classic The Karate Kid movies from the 1980s, you’ll step out of the dojo and into the streets of the West Valley and Okinawa as you battle waves of enemies in this pixel art, side-scrolling, beat ‘em up adventure. Play as Daniel LaRusso, Mr. Miyagi, Ali Mills, or Kumiko as you set out to defeat Johnny Lawrence, John Kreese, Terry Silver, and others intent on establishing dominance over Miyagi-Do Karate forever. This game features intense martial arts combat and frenetic action mixed with plenty of retro flair from the original movies.

"THE NINJA KIDS" is an action game released by TAITO in 1990.
Our ninja-doll heroes must battle to save their town from the evildoers who are plotting to resurrect a great evil.
Take control of one of 4 characters, who might look similar, but are as individual as they are colourful, and slice and dice your enemies with justice in your heart, and ninja magic at your fingertips!

The "Arcade Archives" series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.
Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.
Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.

The Legend of the Dragonflame High School 3 is a Beat 'em up RPG.
There is a wide variety of techniques such as punching, kicking, throwing, and mounting.
You can improve your status and learn new techniques by eating at the store.
Work together with your friends to defeat the motorcycle gang team, the Dark Dragons.

Brave Souls features a highly flexible character improvement system that allows you to create exactly the warriors and the team you want. Enter battle and earn experience to level up characters and improve their base stats, Ascend them to increase their max level, train them on the Soul Tree to further improve specific stats, or link characters together to provide additional support. The choice is yours!

Ogre Tale is a mission-completion type action role-playing game that combines an arcade-like swordplay action game and a hack-and-slash game with training elements.

Set in modern Japan, players take on the role of the "Onikko Three Sisters," descendants of a demon tribe, as they fight against demons. There are more than 50 missions, and you will be exterminating yokai in various regions of Japan.

In addition to the basic actions of attacking, jumping, dodging, normal attacks, and special moves, characters can perform a variety of actions by setting skills in weapon slots. The rarer the weapon, the more slots it has, so you can customize it to suit your play style by combining a variety of skills.

The game also supports online co-op play for up to three players, with six online missions to choose from.

It's time to dish out some carnage in Hot Blood, the next low-poly 3D beat ’em up from the creator of Drunken Fist! Take the role of sassy smack-talking heroine Roxy as she’s taken off her guard when a zombie apocalypse breaks out while she’s shopping at the mall with her boyfriend. Can she find her boyfriend and escape alive?

From clothing stores to city streets, Hot Blood is physics-based brawling fun that’s perfect for casual replay or hardcore speed runs, offering plenty of challenge without taking itself too seriously. Customize Roxy with a variety of spicy outfits, pick up improvised weaponry and wade through hordes of undead baddies as you fight to survive the apocalypse and look good doing it!

Willy’s Wonderland – The Game is a 2.5D beat ‘em up game based on the cult film of the same name, in which a group of Animatronics come to life and slaughter people who dare visit Willy’s Wonderland.

Players take control of either The Janitor or Liv as they face the hordes of evil commanded by the nefarious Animatronics - Tito Turtle, Siren Sara, Arty Alligator, Cammy Chameleon, Willy Weasel and more!

Try different combinations of punches and kicks to perform different combos and make use of special techniques and powerful abilities to get rid of Willy and his henchmen.

You play as Seiji Maruyama, a middle-aged yakuza recently released from prison. Old tropes are here but you can choose to not follow them. The question is — does anything really matter that much now?

The game features:
- Multi-endings;
- Complex beat'em up action;
- Mini-games;
- City to explore.

What is a banana to do when he’s haunted by anxiety and inner demons? Doug’s Nightmare is a cartoony, hand-drawn bullet hell where your job is to help Doug the banana overcome his worst fears by pounding them into oblivion! Part top-down twin-stick shooter and part beat ’em up, Doug’s Nightmare pits you against swarms of bugs, mushrooms, floating brains and more!

Doug can punch when disarmed or pick up a wide variety of weaponry to fend off foes, from slimy squirt guns to spiky clubs. He can don shoes, gloves, cloaks, sunglasses and a wacky wardrobe to improve stats and look stylish as he gains the confidence he’ll need to take on the biggest baddies! Can you guide him to victory?

Best Switch Beat Em Up Games

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Ascendant

Hood Story: Kaito Yamazaki

Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate

Big Helmet Heroes

FINAL KNIGHT

Grand Exile

Rangok Skies

Stone Protectors

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind

Diesel Legacy: The Brazen Age

Anne's Zombie Odyssey

G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra

River City Saga: Three Kingdoms Next

Vengeance Hunters

Night Slashers: Remake

Maiden Cops

The Karate Kid: Street Rumble

Arcade Archives THE NINJA KIDS

The Legend of the Dragonflame High School 3

BLEACH Brave Souls

Ogre Tale

Hot Blood

Willy's Wonderland - The Game

Fading Afternoon

Doug's Nightmare

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