10 Best Samurai & Ninja Video Games Of All Time

10. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

After finding success with Dark Souls and Bloodborne, FromSoftware shifted their hard-to-be-hard Soulsborne formula to feudal Japan in the way of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. With new enemies pulled from Japanese lore, you play as a shinobi brought back from the dead and given a clockwork mechanical arm. How awesome does that sound?

With increased verticality and stealth mechanics, Sekiro opens up new avenues to approach the deadly problems you'll face, in ways never before seen in FromSoftware's earlier games.

Likewise, the mechanical arm that the title character is given opens up some neat new techniques to use in and out of battle. Another stark change is moving from methodic dodge and strike techniques to whittle down boss health bars into a more quick-twitch counter, overwhelming an enemy's posture to deliver a satisfying, cinematic killing blow.

Like the later Dark Souls, Sekiro also has multiple possible endings giving it added replayability aside from just choosing the A or B ending after the last boss' defeat. Sekiro also has the added aspect of the game world growing worse each time you perish, giving even more reason to fight through and try to keep alive - no matter your own immortality.