Oni-likes and engine ports

Fans have explored several different game engines as a way to recreate Oni with more advanced graphics and other features. Oni has also influenced a handful of later games. The focus below is on games that deliver an Oni-like experience, as opposed to fan-made Oni tribute games in general.

Oni-like games

These games resemble Oni in various ways. Because Oni fans are often thinking about different aspects of the game when they ask for "Oni-likes", we've attempted to characterize what aspect of each game is Oni-like. All of the below games are third-person.

Name	Year	Platform	Female hero	Cyberpunk(-ish)	Anime-style	Deep melee	Gunplay
Æon Flux	2005	PS2	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Batman: Arkham Asylum	2009	PS3, X360, Windows	No	No	No	Yes	No
Batman: Arkham City	2011	PS3, X360, Windows	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Batman: Arkham Knight	2015	PS4, XB1, Windows	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
BloodRayne	2002	PS2, Xbox	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
BloodRayne 2	2004	PS2, Xbox	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
Death by Degrees	2005	PS2	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Devil May Cry 3	2005	PS2, Windows	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition	2005	PS4, XB1	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Enter the Matrix	2003	PS2, Xbox, Windows	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
EOE: Eve of Extinction	2002	PS2	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2004	PS2	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Ghost of Tsushima	2020	PS4	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
God Hand	2006	PS2	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Gunnm: Martian Memory	1998	PS1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2	2000	Windows	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Lugaru	2005	Mac, Windows	No	No	No	Yes	No
Overgrowth	2017	Mac, Windows	No	No	No	Yes	No
Remember Me	2013	PS3, X360	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Sifu	2022	PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Sonic Unleashed (Werehog levels)	2008	PS3, X360	No	No	No	Yes	No
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast	2002	Mac, Windows	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy	2003	Mac, Windows	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
The Matrix: Path of Neo	2005	PS2, Xbox, Windows	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Tomb Raider	2013	PS4, XB1, Windows	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
X-Men Origins: Wolverine	2009	PS3, X360, Windows	No	No	No	Yes	No
ZeiramZone	1996	PS1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

Oni-inspired games

Comment by a developer of Jedi Outcast under an Oni video on YouTube.

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 (in other words, the main character will not launch an attack if the enemy is not in reach, and the attack used is based on the physical relation of the player-character to the enemy rather than on the specific input of the player). Info on the released games in this list is found in the above table.

• 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	Unity	No
OniBGE	Blender Game Engine/UPBGE Eevee	No
Serious Konoko	Serious Engine 2	No
UnrealOni	Unreal Engine 4	No