Bloodless

Critic reviews

• Pure Nintendo

  Kaelyn Daugherty · Feb 23, 2025

  7.0

  Bloodless for the Nintendo Switch offers a unique action-adventure experience centering on counter-based combat. Armed only with her fists, protagonist Tomoe's mission is to disarm enemies without taking lives...kind of like Batman.

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• Spazio Games

  Domenico Musicò · Oct 06, 2024

  7.0

  Bloodless è un titolo che mescola alcune delle meccaniche di combattimento ispirate a Sekiro, con enfasi su schivate, precisione di movimento e contromosse, aggiungendo a corredo abilità e una conduzione di gioco da action adventure. Non tutto funzione alla perfezione, i ritmi sono a volte un po' lenti e si ha la sensazione che l'intera avventura sia un po' troppo tirata per lunghe, ma non si può di certo dire che sia l'ennesimo clone senz'anima.

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• Gaming Trend

  Corvo Rohwer · Oct 04, 2024

  8.0

  Bloodless approaches the idea of a brawler with a unique spin featuring its non-lethal combat, but feels like it can be pulling its punches in some areas. Parrying your way through waves of enemies is novel, yet the implementation can lead to some overwhelming moments in an otherwise engaging experience. The path of mercy was never going to be easy though, and Bloodless still manages to be an overall fun journey of finding an end to violence.

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• GamesCreed

  Azathoth · Sep 06, 2024

  8.0

  Bloodless is a great game and is fun to play for the most part. It has the potential to become an absolute hit just for the ambiance.

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• NoobFeed

  nine_toes · Sep 04, 2024

  8.0

  Bloodless provides an engaging experience with challenging and fun combat, a badass elderly protagonist, an interesting premise that I enjoyed where her determination to keep a vow is at odds with all the violence around her, and some interesting and eccentric characters who provide a bit of comic relief to the otherwise tense atmosphere. You should check this game out if the visuals appeal to you and you are okay with a difficult combat system.

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• Shacknews

  Lucas White · Aug 28, 2024

  8.0

  Ultimately, Bloodless is an interesting, straightforward kind of game that is exactly what it says it is on the box. There’s a central premise, and the gameplay revolves (almost) entirely around it, even if it wavers a little out of an apparent necessity. And even then, takes the care to justify the shift in a way that lines up in the fiction. The non-lethal combat is fun to engage with, and doesn’t simply feel like another samurai game about parrying. There also isn’t a ton more to Bloodless than that, which is totally fine. There’s a target, the game lines up its shot, and hits it dead center. Good stuff.

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