Oni-likes and engine ports
After playing and replaying Oni, fans often ask what other games are like Oni. The article below lists games with high similarity to Oni (although none totally match it), games with some similarity, games inspired/influenced by Oni, and finally documents past attempts to recreate Oni in several different game engines.
Oni-like games
The games in this list meet the following three criteria: (1) third-person action, (2) gunplay (defined as some kind of ranged weapons being commonly in use), and (3) deep melee (combat system has more than basic punches/kicks, e.g. combos and throws). See the next table for games that have some similarities to Oni but don't meet all these criteria.
Name | Year | Platform | Female hero | Cyberpunk(-ish) | Anime-style |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Æon Flux | 2005 | PS2 | Yes | Yes | No |
Alias | 2004 | PS2, Xbox, Win | Yes | No | No |
Bayonetta 1–3 | 2009–2022 | PS3–4, X360–XB1, Wii U–Switch | Yes | No | Yes |
BloodRayne 1–2 | 2002–2004 | PS2, Xbox[1] | Yes | No | No |
Death by Degrees | 2005 | PS2 | Yes | No | Yes |
Devil May Cry 3 | 2005 | PS2, Windows[2] | No | No | Yes |
Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition | 2005 | PS4, XB1 | Yes[3] | No | Yes |
Die Hard Arcade | 1996 | PS2, Saturn | Yes[4] | No | No |
Enter the Matrix | 2003 | PS2, Xbox, Windows | Yes[4] | Yes | No |
Fighting Force | 1997 | PS1, N64, Win | Yes[4] | No | No |
Ghost of Tsushima | 2020 | PS4[5] | No | No | No |
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast | 2002 | Mac, Windows[6] | No | No | No |
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy | 2003 | Mac, Windows[7] | Yes[4] | No | No |
State of Emergency | 2002 | PS2, Xbox, Windows | Yes[4] | No | No |
The Matrix: Path of Neo | 2005 | PS2, Xbox, Windows | No | Yes | No |
Oni-comparable games
These games don't meet all the criteria above for an Oni-like, but they still have similarities that may interest an Oni fan.
Name | Year | Platform | Female hero | Cyberpunk (-ish) |
Anime-style | Third-person | Deep melee | Gunplay |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Batman: Arkham Asylum | 2009 | PS3, X360, Win[8] | No | No | No | Yes | Yes[9] | No |
Batman: Arkham City | 2011 | PS3, X360, Win[8] | Yes[10] | No | No | Yes | Yes[9] | No |
Batman: Arkham Knight | 2015 | PS4, XB1, Win | Yes[11] | No | No | Yes | Yes[9] | No |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 2002 | Xbox | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No[12] |
EOE: Eve of Extinction | 2002 | PS2 | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex | 2004 | PS2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
God Hand | 2006 | PS2 | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Gunnm: Martian Memory | 1998 | PS1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2 | 2000 | Windows | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Lugaru | 2005 | Mac, Windows | No | No | No | Yes | Yes[9] | No |
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance | 2013 | PS3, X360 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[12] |
Mirror's Edge | 2008 | PS3, X360, Windows | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Mirror's Edge Catalyst | 2016 | PS4, XB1, Windows | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Overgrowth | 2017 | Mac, Windows | No[13] | No | No | Yes | Yes[9] | No |
Remember Me | 2013 | PS3, X360 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes[14] | No |
Sifu | 2022 | PS5, XSS/X, Win | Yes[4] | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order | 2019 | PS4–5, XB1–XSS/X, Windows | No | No | No | Yes | Yes[9] | No |
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor | 2023 | PS4–5, XB1–XSS/X, Windows | No | No | No | Yes | Yes[9] | No[12] |
Tekken 4 | 2002 | PS2 | No | No | Yes | Yes[15] | Yes | No |
Tekken 5 | 2005 | PS2 | No | No | Yes | Yes[15] | Yes | No |
Tekken 6 | 2009 | PS3, X360 | Yes[4] | No | Yes | Yes[15] | Yes | No[12] |
Wet | 2009 | PS3, X360 | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Urban Chaos | 1999 | PS1, Windows | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Urban Reign | 2005 | PS2 | Yes[16] | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Wanted: Dead | 2023 | PS4–5, XB1–XSS/X, Win | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Yakuza 1-6 + 0 | 2005–2016 | PS2–4, XB1 | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[12] |
ZeiramZone | 1996 | PS1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Zeno Clash | 2009 | X360, Win | No | No | No | No[17] | Yes | Yes |
Name | Year | Platform | Female hero | Cyberpunk (-ish) |
Anime-style | Third-person | Deep melee | Gunplay |
Oni-inspired games
These games, and thus their sequels, directly took inspiration from Oni's combat system during development, though in Lugaru's case the inspiration was somewhat contrary because the developer, David Rosen, did not like Oni's free, non-contextual combat and sought to make a game that would be fully contextual.[9] If a game in this list has been released, it will also be found in one of the above tables.
- Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and its sequel Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
- Lugaru and its sequel Overgrowth
- Reikoneo (in development)
- Spine (in development)
Engine ports
These were attempts to create a new "Oni" in a more modern game engine.
Name | Engine | Under development |
---|---|---|
Ion Eyes | Unreal Engine 4 | No |
Konoko Payne | Flexine | No |
Oni Deathmatch Multiplayer | GoldSrc | No |
Oni-Round2[18] | Unity | No |
OniBGE | Blender Game Engine/UPBGE Eevee | No |
Serious Konoko | Serious Engine 2 | No |
UnrealOni | Unreal Engine 4 | No |
Footnotes
- ↑ Remastered versions of the BloodRayne games were released in 2020 for Windows as BloodRayne/BloodRayne 2: Terminal Cut and in 2021 for PS4, PS5 and XB1 as BloodRayne/BloodRayne 2: ReVamped.
- ↑ A remaster of DMC3: Special Edition was released together with Devil May Cry and Devil May Cry 2 in 2012 as the Devil May Cry HD Collection for PS3 and X360, and then the Collection was re-released in 2018 for Windows, PS4 and XB1.
- ↑ The Special Edition adds two playable female characters, Lady and Trish.
- ↑ Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 You can choose the gender of the player-character.
- ↑ A Director's Cut version was released in 2021 for PS5 and in 2024 for Windows.
- ↑ Later ported to PS4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.
- ↑ Later ported to PS4.
- ↑ Jump up to: 8.0 8.1 Remastered and re-released in 2016 for PS4 and XB1.
- ↑ Jump up to: 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 The combat system is much more contextual than Oni's. "Contextual" means that the attack used is based on the physical relation of the player-character to the enemy – their relative positioning, distance, velocity, height – rather than on the specific input of the player. The main character will not launch an attack if the enemy is not in reach, and the attack used is determined by the engine, not the player.
- ↑ Catwoman has her own campaign as a playable character.
- ↑ Partially; the game alternates between control of male and female characters.
- ↑ Jump up to: 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Guns or other ranged weapons are used in a limited way but the focus is on melee.
- ↑ A female character model can be swapped in as the player-character using the built-in developer tools.
- ↑ The melee is complex, but combo chains are assembled in menus, not performed ad hoc.
- ↑ Jump up to: 15.0 15.1 15.2 Although Tekken games are 2D fighters and would not normally be listed here, these specific titles have a mode called Tekken Force (Tekken 4), Devil Within (Tekken 5) or Campaign Mode (Tekken 6) where combat takes place in a free-roaming 3D environment. These are all broadly referred to as Tekken Force mode. Tekken Force mode debuted in Tekken 3 but in that game it was presented as a sidescrolling beat-'em-up rather than true 3D free-roam. Tekken 8 only has a brief free-roam mode in the campaign's Chapter 10.
- ↑ Female characters can be unlocked and used in Free mode.
- ↑ Features the only first-person melee combat in the list.
- ↑ Fork of original project that resided at https://github.com/6opoDuJIo/Oni-Round2 (dead link).