8 Games Like Phantom Blade Zero to Play on PC

Sekiro is the game people mean when they talk about deflecting. Every enemy has a posture bar, and each clean deflect pushes it closer to breaking. Once it breaks, one finishing blow ends the fight. Boss duels become a back and forth rhythm that will feel familiar after Phantom Blade Zero, with less room for mistakes.

You play a one-armed shinobi in late 1500s Japan, and your prosthetic arm holds tools like a firecracker or an axe for specific enemies. There is no co-op and no way to call for help, so you learn each fight until you get it right.

Nine Sols takes the deflect and punish idea and puts it in a hand-drawn 2D world. You play Yi, an old hero woken up to hunt the nine rulers of a fading realm, and nearly every fight comes down to timing your parry, then hitting back with a talisman that blows up on the enemy.

The setting is what its makers call Taopunk: Taoist ideas mixed with machines and neon, which sits very close to Phantom Blade Zero's kungfupunk. It's an indie game, the bosses are tough, and the story is heavier than the art first suggests.

Sifu is kung fu with mostly bare hands. You hunt the people who killed your family through a nightclub, an art gallery and an office tower, and you fight whole rooms of enemies with parries, dodges, throws and anything you can pick up, from bottles to chairs.

The twist is a pendant that brings you back after every death, but older. Each death adds years, and when you get too old, the run is over. That makes it a good match for Soul's sixty-six days in Phantom Blade Zero: time works like a second health bar.

Wo Long comes from Team NINJA, the studio behind Nioh, and it's set as the Han dynasty falls apart, with demons mixed into the Three Kingdoms story. The combat leans hard on deflecting. Turning attacks aside fills the enemy's Spirit gauge, and a full gauge leaves them open for a heavy Fatal Strike.

That push and pull is closer to Phantom Blade Zero's flow than most soulslikes. You can bring AI allies into fights or play the story in online co-op. A Complete Edition on Steam adds all three story DLCs.

Black Myth: Wukong is built on Journey to the West, the classic novel about the Monkey King. You play the Destined One, a monkey warrior with a staff, and most of your time goes into long boss fights against creatures from the book, each with its own pattern to learn.

It has fewer parries than Phantom Blade Zero. You dodge, build focus with light hits and spend it on heavy staff strikes, and you collect spells, like one that freezes an enemy in place for a moment. You can also take the spirits of some beaten enemies and borrow their attacks, which keeps adding new tricks.

Stellar Blade trades wuxia for a ruined future Earth, but the fighting is close. You play EVE, and the core loop is parrying a combo, dodging the special attacks the game warns you about with a colored flash, then answering with your own chains of hits.

Clean parries and dodges charge the abilities you need for the big bosses, so playing defense well is how you win. It came to PC in June 2025 after starting on PS5. It is a little more forgiving than Sekiro, which makes it a good pick if you want the style without hours on one boss.

WUCHANG is a soulslike set in Shu during the late Ming dynasty, so the period and the weapons sit near Phantom Blade Zero's world. You play a pirate warrior who has lost her memory and carries a disease called Feathering, and you fight through temples and ruins taken over by monsters.

It is slower than Phantom Blade Zero and closer to a classic soulslike. You learn new skills from the enemies you beat, spend a resource called Red Mercury to grow your fighting style, and the choices you make along the way lead to one of several endings.

Where Winds Meet is free to play and set in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, a messy stretch of history that suits wuxia stories. You run across rooftops, ride the wind over long distances and learn techniques from martial sects, from a Tai Chi push to a Lion's Roar shout.

Fights have parries and weapon combos, but the game is much wider than Phantom Blade Zero, with crafting, medicine, music and folk games around the fighting. You can play the story alone or with up to four friends, and the Steam page says spending is limited to cosmetics.