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NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2025

Should you play it?

A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.

What works

  • Fast and fluid gameplay
  • Responsive controls
  • Excellent pixel art and animations
  • Great soundtrack
  • High replayability with hard mode and challenges

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Some minor control quirks (wall climbing)
  • Limited enemy variety
  • Lack of multiplayer or cooperative modes
  • Some boss fights less engaging

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Azure Striker Gunvolt

  • Freedom Planet 2

  • Advent NEON®

  • Summum Aeterna

  • Savant - Ascent REMIX

  • Death's Gambit: Afterlife

Less status-driven

Games that feels like NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound but with less focus on status and recognition

  • Nine Sols

  • Nightmare: The Lunatic

  • Afterimage

  • The Mummy Demastered

  • Cyber Shadow

  • Foregone

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Blasphemous 2

  • Blasphemous

  • The Last Door - Collector's Edition

  • The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition

  • The Stone of Madness

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  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound. These titles are not in What to play next.

NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Story, Fantasy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Story, Fantasy.

Last update: 21/08/2026