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. The "Deep melee" column will report "Yes" for any game that has more than basic punches/kicks, e.g. combos and throws. The "Gunplay" column reports "Yes" for games that have ranged weapons, including bows, in regular use, but not if there are only occasionally-used weapons like thrown knives (Urban Chaos) or guns that are picked up and quickly discarded (Yakuza). All of the below games are third-person. The last column totals the number of "hits" in the previous 5 columns.

Name	Year	Platform	Female hero	Cyberpunk(-ish)	Anime-style	Deep melee	Gunplay	Score
Æon Flux	2005	PS2	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	4
Batman: Arkham Asylum	2009	PS3, X360, Windows	No	No	No	Yes	No	1
Batman: Arkham City	2011	PS3, X360, Windows	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	2
Batman: Arkham Knight	2015	PS4, XB1, Windows	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	2
BloodRayne	2002	PS2, Xbox	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	3
BloodRayne 2	2004	PS2, Xbox	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	3
Death by Degrees	2005	PS2	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	4
Devil May Cry 3	2005	PS2, Windows	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	3
Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition	2005	PS4, XB1	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	4
Enter the Matrix	2003	PS2, Xbox, Windows	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	4
EOE: Eve of Extinction	2002	PS2	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	2
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2004	PS2	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	4
Ghost of Tsushima	2020	PS4	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	2
God Hand	2006	PS2	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	2
Gunnm: Martian Memory	1998	PS1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	4
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2	2000	Windows	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	2
Lugaru	2005	Mac, Windows	No	No	No	Yes	No	1
Mirror's Edge	2008	PS3, X360, Windows	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	3
Mirror's Edge Catalyst	2016	PS4, XB1, Windows	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	3
Overgrowth	2017	Mac, Windows	No	No	No	Yes	No	1
Remember Me	2013	PS3, X360	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	2
Sifu	2022	PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	2
Sonic Unleashed (Werehog levels)	2008	PS3, X360	No	No	No	Yes	No	1
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast	2002	Mac, Windows	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	2
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy	2003	Mac, Windows	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	3
State of Emergency	2002	PS2, Xbox, Windows	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	3
The Matrix: Path of Neo	2005	PS2, Xbox, Windows	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	3
Tomb Raider	2013	PS4, XB1, Windows	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	2
Urban Chaos	1999	PS1, Windows	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	2
Urban Reign	2005	PS2	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	2
X-Men Origins: Wolverine	2009	PS3, X360, Windows	No	No	No	Yes	No	1
ZeiramZone	1996	PS1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	4

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