MORDHAU

Most normal MORDHAU experience :

1. I install the game
2. i play the tutorial
3. i try the pvp gamemodes
4. i spawn
5. i see a naked miget with a pan screaming at me
6. i try to run away while he throws rocks at me
7. i get trampled by a horse

10/10 the best experience i ever had with a medieval game, would 100% reccomend. also the game is very addicting (in a good way imo)

i personally like this a lot better than chiv 2 because there's just so much personality that you get from playing multiplayer with others. what other game is there where a bard is playing doom music on his lute, an annoying fucker with dwarfism pelting everyone with rocks, and knights fist fighting each other while a crazy guy with an axe murders everyone from behind. servers are still active and if you can rub your brain together to make a class to play how you want to it's not too hard to learn and at least win some fights. i say get it if you're on the fence, it's still decent.

got into this game way later than everyone else. Too bad only around 200-300 concurrent players are on steam so you usually will run into the same couple of people esp if you go to the same servers. I do recommend this game but not for any casual players. This game is brutal and most of the community will either ignore you or just farm you for kills. its like you learn how to swim by throwing someone in the ocean. This game makes every fight you have feel unique, not many games can accomplish this great feat. All in all, check this game out before it dies forever cause it probably will one day.

fuck you

It's a fun game and all, but you had to have joined in its prime when everyone was still relatively new. I've had the game for awhile and I have to take breaks from it because it gets frustrating playing against veteran players who know the game inside and out. It's very hard to learn nowadays.

Recent game updates include crashing and constant server issues!

best combat physics out of any of the fighting games. tons of fun and never gets old. do keep in mind it takes a lot of practice to get used to it, just keep trying and the game becomes more and more fun

Absolutely love this game, so surprised to see recent 'Mixed' reviews. I found the game very accessible when I started and like Chivalry and the many Warband games has its own fighting style that you have to master. The way the different weapons work means you are constantly learning to use them effectively. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this game to anyone, the devs have put a lot of work and thought into this game and its great for a quick 20 minute rumble or couple of hours trying to level up and earn some Gold for new kit/weapons (All cosmetic and not pay to play) I personally haven't seen much cheating and while you get the odd troll most can be easily ignored or voted out. All that's left to say is "Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war"

- Abandonware
This game is abandoned by the developers. Do not expect content
- Horrible playerbase
Duelyards are pointless, no way to learn the basics due to ever-present FFAs
- Extremely clunky and abusive animations
This is the direct reason of bad combat system
- The combat system is just аss, let me clarify below
It comes to a point where the player doing feints is the one winning the combat - always. Chambering the attack is nearly impossible due to the animation abuse - it's not possible to identify the angle of attacks when the enemy character spins like crazy or does whatever animation abuse they mastered. This in turn makes clear that in order to play this game normally you'll have to waste enormous amount of time learning all attack patterns in order to get the score in 1vX scenarios.
- No matchmaking
You will always be facing higher level players in public lobbies.
The Quick Play button doesn't do anything and searches for a game indefinitely.
- DLCs
These DLCs items entries mess up the character customization menu, hence the navigation becomes horribly unintuitive. It takes time to actually find the item which is not required by the DLCs. Scammy tactics. Wouldn't it be hard to make a checkbox to make the DLC items to disappear from my menu? I have no intents of buying those.

Cheers to character customization tho

Servers for oceanic still going strong.
...just don't ever play an archer because you will get griefed repeatedly and abused for it.

What few remaining players there are (400-700 extremely sweaty people) are mostly trolls and if you aren't experienced and skilled with 400+ hours don't bother, you're wasting your time.

One of the greatest combat systems of all time, I'm glad this game is still going strong

Best medieval/rennaisance knight dressup simulator, and also an unironically good tool for making tokens in DnD 10/10

Mordhau – Medieval Chaos at Its Finest
Hours Played: 9.5

Mordhau is a brutal and skill-based medieval combat game that rewards precision, timing, and strategy. Whether you're dueling 1v1, charging in massive battles, or just goofing around with a lute, there's plenty of fun to be had. Be warned: the skill gap is real.

The Good
✅ Deep, Skill-Based Combat – Directional attacks, parries, feints, and drags create intense duels.

✅ Huge Battles & Game Modes – From chaotic frontline skirmishes to small duels, there's variety.

✅ Tons of Customization – Armor, weapons, and even meme-worthy loadouts like naked peasants with frying pans.

✅ Brutal and Satisfying Kills – Limb dismemberment, headshots, and well-placed strikes feel amazing.

✅ Active Modding & Community Servers – Lots of custom maps, modes, and player-driven content.

The Bad
❌ Steep Learning Curve – New players will struggle against veterans—expect to die a lot.

❌ Toxicity & Teamkilling – Some lobbies can get frustrating due to trolls and intentional griefers.

❌ Lack of Progression – Customization is great, but there’s no real long-term unlock system.

Final Verdict
With 9.5 hours, I can say Mordhau is an amazing medieval combat game, but it demands patience and practice. If you love deep melee combat, large-scale battles, and skill-based gameplay, it’s absolutely worth a try—just be ready to get destroyed by veterans at first.

Rating: 8/10 – Frustrating at first, but incredibly rewarding once you improve. ⚔️🛡️

Really great medieval war game with great offline feachers and full steam deck and gamepad support. Online experience was bad toxic community can only level online rough grind buy on sail.

Truly awful game. Horrible community, I only comeback for the swordplay because no other game besides chivalry offers it. And i'm sorely reminded why I stopped playing again and again. 90% of the moderators on the duel servers abuse their powers and ruin the game. The skill-gap in this game is like no other. You will lose over and over again and get a little bit better but it really doesn't help. And pretty much everyone playing the game are no live losers who have been playing since launch. So good luck but i don't recommend wasting your time with it.

A rare gem that is always enjoyable every time you come back to it. I don't have many of these games and Mordau is definitely one of them. I love it.

Not only the game is fun but the people i play with makes it even more funner, the amount of memories i made while playing this game will always make me happy in the rough times of life.

This game is so hard, when i hear the dwarven, high pitched, screaming fr*nch women i'm forced by my body to unsheathe my shortsword and start furiously handling it, unplayable.

good game but has quite a difficulty step. I wouldn't recommend if you're not the best at timing (mainly for parries).

It's fun if ur in a server with normal players since some playrs are so good and hardcore they will kill all other players together and ull keep dying so if u want a hardcore fanbase game here it is...

Would be a fun game but they need to get new moderators. I watched where a player TK'ed someone and the admin instead of smoothing the situation out so both players could have fun, started arguing with the player and escalated the situation till the person was so frustrated they said to just ban them. So then the admin goes and bans them and says "your wish is my command". lol what's the point of doing that?

Extremely hard to get into in the beginning because of the very high skill ceiling and seasoned veterans that will completely destroy you. However if you can manage it past this stage you will be rewarded with one of the most satisfying combat systems you've ever touched, if you fight against opponents that haven't dedicated all waking hours of their live to mastering the latest annoying cheese tactic.

The game shines extremely well when you fight against opponents of similar skill level and teams are somewhat balanced. Unfortunately the casual game modes frequently drop the ball in this regard super hard and you might get completely stomped in some matches.

My advice would be to give duel servers a try. While it might feel intimidating switching from the casual large battles to dedicated one-on-one fights (and you will find people that completely kick your ass) you at least have the ability to choose who you duel or not. Use this to duel people that are better than you, but don't completely frustrate you. Skill will naturally come with time played and with the help of a couple of tutorial Vids on Youtube. You just need to not get so frustrated you wanna curse the game never touch it again. Good luck Knight.

The graphics are nice. I am not good at the game and did not enjoy it from the first moment. It is probably just a personal preference for me. I imagine that this is the right game for some people. Not me.

Really terrible game that gets addictive after a while of constant uninstalling and reinstalling. Devs don't care, players are toxic most of the time, people will sit in their rooms all day/night grinding and slaughtering new players and get off to it.

The combat is fun, People say you need hundreds of hours to develop the skills to play well but its untrue, if you stick with your team youll have a good time.

The game is very fun if you're a mellow person. Youre gonna die a lot but most people do in this game, the chaos is part of the fun of it all.

You can play in 1v1 groups, and that does require skills but, the normal game modes arent like that.

Mordhau is by far my favorite multiplayer game of all time, and close behind Halo Reach on Xbox 360, (potentially even beating it by the time you may be reading this) it is the game that I've spent the most hours playing in my life. I love it, and I love the memey culture it's created in it's incredibly dedicated community. That being said, there are so many issues that I don't even know where to begin, so I guess I'll talk about the game that inspired it first.

Way back in the early 2010's a game called Chivalry Medieval Warfare came out. I played it quite a bit on Xbox 360, but it was pretty clear that the skill ceiling was far too high for me to be able to actually enjoy the game, much less get good at it. Because of the way the melee combat system was designed, players discovered ways to break the animations, and make attacks nearly impossible to read, and even more difficult to defend and counter against. This lead to a steep dropoff in players, and a very unwelcoming environment for new players to enter into.

Mordhau was somewhat of a spiritual successor to Chivalry 1, and it has all the same issues with it's gameplay, and the playerbase has suffered as a result. Attacks from skilled players can be impossible for new players to read, seeming downright buggy at times, and it doesn't help that the in-game tutorial only barely scrapes the surface of the depth of combat animations. This has led to most of the playerbase abandoning the game, leaving mostly high level players who have played long enough to understand how to exploit the animation systems. Some of which are really quite friendly and will show new players the ropes, but most of which simply want to stomp on new players and destroy their will to live. A high skill-ceiling in a game is not a flaw on it's own, but when coupled with a playerbase so small in such a niche genre, it makes for a very unwelcoming experience for new players, and the popularity of the game declines exponentially as time goes on. And my God, I can't even imagine what it's like for console players. Good luck.

Before I get into the positives, I feel obligated to mention the lack of communication and support from the dev team.

I understand that the team at Triternion is quite small and does not have sufficient funding to release major content updates on a consistent schedule. I don't think anyone expects that from them, but they still manage to disappoint. I think most of the playerbase is willing to pay for cosmetic DLC for new armor/weapon skins, however there needs to be a balance between cosmetics and actual game content. There have been a handful of maps released since launch, and I personally enjoy all of them quite a bit. But there have been multiple DLC cosmetic sets and updates to Horde mode, which seemingly have taken precedence over base game multiplayer content. I'm not sure how popular Horde mode is in actuality, but from my experiences with the community at large I can say for a certainty that most players would prefer more multiplayer maps, or even variant maps, (such as were added to Horde mode recently) to be available in Frontline and Invasion modes. However, Triternion seems unwilling to give us new content for the game's flagship modes, which only adds to the hopeless feeling that this is a dying game which has been abandoned by it's players as well as it's creators.

Also, if anyone at Triternion is reading this, please for the love of God give us capes and cloaks for character customization.

Now onto the positives.

Again, not sure where to begin. Combat is so incredibly satisfying at a higher skill level, I genuinely can't compare the feeling of trading back to back chambers with a player truly worthy of feeling the bite of your sword to any other game I've ever played. While yes, it's not welcoming to new players, to veteran players, it's like smoking crack. Whether defeating multiple enemies at once, or just 1 highly skilled opponent, combat feels fun and competitive. Even for those players who break and abuse the animations, you can still tell that they've spent a lot of time mastering their technique and you always feel the need to get better to be able to smash their malformed skulls into the dirt with extreme prejudice.

Weapons all have a distinct feel. Each one deals different damage, and excels at different kinds of attacks, be it slashes, stabs, or blunt damage, and have different ranges which allow you to get up close and personal with your enemies delivering quick slashing attacks, slow powerful head crunching attacks, or stand back and use your teammates as meat shields as you strategically strike and keep your distance. Weapons offer unique playstyles that promote experimentation and practice with each and every single one, and each one is viable in it's own way. There is almost no limit to how effective you can become with each weapon. F*@# archers though, they are dirty dirty cowards and must be relieved of their life and internal organs whether they're on your team or not. Slay them with pride and glory, you are doing the Lord's work.

Customization is by far the best I've seen in any game, ever. There is a fairly in-depth character creator, with several different ways to mold a mercenary's face and body to resemble any of your favorite characters from movies or TV shows, or just make your own unique character however you want. On top of that, there are HUNDREDS of armor options to mix and match, again allowing you to create your own version of your favorite medieval fantasy characters or real world historical figures. It's a great feeling when someone else recognizes who you're supposed to be and calls you out in the text chat. My only complaint with customization is that I want more, specifically capes and cloaks please!

In conclusion, Mordhau is a flawed yet incredibly fun game, and I would easily recommend anyone try it out if you're interested. Just keep in mind that the playerbase has shrunken considerably, leaving mainly sweaty tryhards and trolls behind, and it likely will not grow further due to the dev team's slow content output and lack of communication with plans for future updates. You will die constantly, many times due to no fault of your own, but just because that one filthy Red (or Blue) hit you with an arrow or rock from an angle you couldn't see. It will seem unfair, it will seem unfun, until you crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women. And if you stick with it, look up some combat strategy videos on YouTube, and keep practicing, it might just become one of your favorite games of all time, as it has for me.

I'm aware that Triternion is supposedly working on their next game, and I hope it's Mordhau 2 but there is no information to suggest that will be the case. However, even if they never release another bit of content for this game, it is still one of the best experiences I've ever had with a game, and I fully recommend it to anyone with a lot of patience.

Please give us capes and cloaks for customization.

Above-and-beyond entry in the extremely-niche genre of sword-based deathmatch multiplayer games, that now past its prime by a couple years, and unfortunately will not cater to well to new or casual players due to the extremely low playercount on only a scant few servers, and what I imagine is a dripfeed of new content for that loyal, if hyper-fixated, active fanbase.

My playcount speaks for itself. I paid full cost the first week of release and did not regret the time I sunk into it. Matches were fast, intense, gory, and just fucking fun to carve through several of in a night, and the hyper-competitive scene wouldn't deter me from relearning the game, dragging/acceling and wessexing, after months and months since last playing - if only the playercount was regularly above a thousand.

The combat was simply that good. 'Dark and Darker' or its worse-off clone 'Dungeonborne' will be the closest I can get to scratching the same itch for complicated, chaotic, multiplayer swordplay - or 'Kingdom Come: Deliverance' for the same built into a singleplayer experience.

One of the coolest games I've ever played. I have 150+ hours and it doesn't stop being fun. There is a bit of a learning curve at first, the community is full of skilled players who've been at it for a while. 10/10 game in my opinion.

Masterful combat, a heap of interactive elements, and delightfully indulging gore all interweave to create something close to a masterpiece. Btw, the joy of mastering its challenging system as well as memorable moments of violent ballet make these engrossing battles unique.

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Full of annoying edgelords spamming the most cancer strats, you will be going against the same exact maul spammer every game and he is going to call you a slur every time he one-taps you. The game is so dead that these are literally the only players left

Perhaps a great game when it came out, but don't recommend it now. The entry level is too high, the ceiling is higher, and most fights end up with being animation spammed out into some kind of death over and over again while not understanding how a person was able to land three hits on you before you can swing up into a simple strike they're almost certainly going to parry anyway. Only explanation or guide to progress in this is "git gud" when there's no explanation for a play to get maybe one kill per hundred deaths because you're doing nothing to these people.

Only reliable way to contribute at all in this game as a new player is just to play the objective like Mirror's Edge: Do everything but battle and then parkour like your life depends on it the moment any enemy sees you because no matter what combination or loadout they're just going to wreck you. Think all because you've got throwables or a bow you're going to fare well? Nope, they'll just block it and then kill you with a Zwei or Maul before you have the chance to start swinging with a dagger.

Edit: After multiple rounds of going into the deficit of maybe one or two kills compared to forty deaths or more, it seems the only valuable strategy to contribute towards team matches is to run whatever the default or lousy crude armor you start with which will then indicate to the enemy team you are indeed a walking one hit kill slab of MEAT for juicy health regeneration for them. The best strategy here of course is again to Mirror's Edge your way around long enough to distract them and then aggressively backcap as five different level 100+ knights get overly hungry for an easy kill like sharks.

Edit 2: Since doing this review I've gotten quite a bit of toxic statements hurled my way from community members (in-game) such as accusations of throwing matches, intentional horrendous play, costing the team the game, running around doing nothing and other generally nasty comments I don't want to repeat here. The one I will comment on specifically is bullying with the excuse "Public shame is the best teacher" which is an absolutely horrible method of new player retention and does not build a positive, reinforcing environment to get into to understand the aforementioned "git gud" stated earlier.

Edit 3: As of writing this, there is currently a PS+ event with double XP and gold as a flood of new console players come in to try the game. The community's response is to hurl insults towards the new/console players such as calling them bots and not real people. Coincidentally, there is (as of this edit) a 215 page Steam Discussion topic of why player retention is so low and why this game peaks at under 1,000 players.

Edit 4: After playing the double XP weekend with the relatively inexperienced PS players, it is at the least more pleasant to fight players who don't know every minute method to throw swings and kicks significantly faster than you to get a better feeling of the fighting mechanics. It does however demonstrate a problem not spotted until now which is that the game has flawed netcode where strikes that should hit don't and strikes that should be parried go through. It's because the tickrate is too low when you're dealing with attack windows of a few frames, plus there's no compensation for latency (aka rollback) so you're absolutely doomed playing with 100ms ping or more. A fighting game needs good netcode for precision and this does not.

Edit 4.5: I feel like after roughly 15-20 hours of gameplay I've "seen" everything, the only important unlocks in the game are weapon slots and a cheap/crude set of armor per weight class (light/medium/heavy) which you’ll get these in that time, and the rest is just padding it out with cosmetics so your peasant starts to appear like a proper knight. Map rotation wise you'll be playing the same 3-4 maps in the same configuration and some are variations of each other so expect to be running the same layouts over and over. Most team gameplay ends up as people running to bonk the enemy in the head for up to a half hour as dedicated support options are rare.

Edit 5: Uninstalled. It's just not fun, and playing this makes me feel worse than before booting it up that playing nothing at all seems preferable. As one final note to finish the review for now: I notice a lot of unhelpful thumbs up reviews such as "People who don't like this are bad at the game" posted recently while the game is sitting at exactly the 70% recent approval mark, the convenient breakpoint between "Mixed" and "Mostly Positive" on the reviews score.

This game stole my will to live and I will prob never understand the basics of combat. But its ight

great game, hard to learn and keep up with experienced players, but awesome time

This game is absolute bullshit, evryone that play this game should uninstall and shower, specially those that are lvl200+

So simply put I love this game, If your somebody who likes challenging game play has a really good community that plays regularly, the community has grown small therefore you will often encounter quite a few familiar passionate faces every day that keep this game alive, I can't recommend for anybody outside Europe since the game is dying everywhere else. But if you are from Europe you will always find people to play with. You will always hear about the learning curve and yes it's going to be frustrating. But there are a lot of people in the community willing to teach you and help you become better. The game isn't always about winning and killing people, the duel servers are generally just a fun place to hang out so if you like GMOD or VRChat with a indeph melee combat system then I recommend giving this game a shot though I'd suggest buying from G2A or your prefered key seller since it's not quite worth the asking price anymore.

skilled players will make this game not fun for anyone who just wants to play it without needing to be at the top of the leaderboard every game. because they NEED that like a junkie needs his fix.

pve is fun, theres alot of community content but the community is dead so

its fun but if you have ping above 50, good luck. its incredibly hard to master and even if youre a baby with 5 hours and choose not to play rank, you will just keep getting obliterated over and over again. if you enjoy suffering then that's your game. as much as i love silliness and funny moments that are plenty its just tiring to learn it with little reward. /

Takes up a lot of storage space. Is on Unreal Engine, so bad optimisation. Consant file malfunction.

Amazing fun, ridiculously high skill ceiling. Some people are GOOD at this game.

Games horrible steep learning curve no good places to start team killing out the ass horrible community

this is the first time i write a review the game is good nothing is wrong with it except some small things that will hopefully get fixed i'm writing this review because i was permanently banned from a server for no reason the only thing i saw before getting banned was the guy laughing at my ping i'm literally in middle east UAE and the game has no middle east servers how is that my fault? as i said the game is good there's a lot of nice people but some people really piss me off kicking and banning for no reason

TLDR: The devs listened too much to the top 10% of players and now the game feels unplayable to those not putting 30hrs a week into this nearly dead game.

I played this game on day of release and put 40 hours in the first week.

This game has reached a semi-dead semi-unwelcome state where only the top 15% still really play it. The game sold over a million copies and had ~40k players for its first two months and then fell off to ~5, now it hovers at 1500 per day. I think this is because the only people still playing are the people who were good from day one or have put in the time to really stick around. The changes to shields in patch 10 resulted in a lot of people being unable to keep up with the higher skill players in the frontline and invasion modes. The changes to horses has also meant you can't really do a lot of the same silly stuff on those either. The game feels to have moved in a purely balanced 1v1 direction and it's real heart came from the silly character customization and voices and the lutes and flutes people and the shenanigans of combat. Now it's hard to land kicks, avoid being decapitated from drags in 3v3 scenarios, you can't rely on a shield to keep you safe, and horses feel super unpowered. This game isn't how it started and it's not the competitor to Chivalry 2 it could and should be. Bring back old shields, get rid of couching limits, maybe change the drags a bit, and stop focusing on the ranked modes that very few people ever got the game for.

Fucking hate this game with everything I stand for. The game is a shit fest of broken animations and servers more dead than my will to live.

11/10 would play again, would recommend to new players

Y'know, I really liked this game when it came out. Lots to experiment with and certainly best in its class.

I've redownloaded it a few times over the years to see what's changed and what's new.

This most recent attempt was the most abysmal. The official servers don't even work anymore, and the game runs like World of Warcraft on an '02 laptop on modern hardware. Save your time and live vicariously through someone who plays it for a living.

The combat is essentially animation abuse simulator. The skill is determined by how much you are a willing to stray from normal gameplay to the gaping abyss of tweaked DPI, uncanny animation cancelling and other bullshit.

nearly 6 years after release and it's as dead as expected. 1 server running the main gamemode - any other populated server is full of sweaty tryhards dueling.
can't recommend a title where 50% of the damage taken is from allies
plus new flinching system to punish you even harder for your allies' mistakes.
2/10 in 2025. Get drunk and use a longbow to have fun with this dead software.

good game play, good variety with all the ways you can customize your character and loadout, really fun game to kill time once you get a hang of it, but not a big fan of the community, lots of weird furrys and lgbtq+ members talking very sexual in chat and lewd images of some furry blushing or something along the lines of that in their pfps, tired of seeing the names and pfps after I die, I know theres options to get rid of it but there is one option that gets rid of seeing the names at the bottom middle of your screen but also gets rid of health bar, wish there was a option to just get rid of just the name, but keep health bar

For about 2 hours of my first few games I was mad, and thought that this game deserved a trash review, but after playing it a few more times and learning a few tips, I have become quite ok at it which is a feat of its own. After putting in a few hours of gameplay and mastering my own fighting style the game became very fun, even though sometimes I still whiff uncontrollably. Would absolutely recommend this game to people who are willing to put in the time and effort afforded to it. IF YOU'RE A CASUAL PLAYER AND ARE NOT WILLING TO MASTER THIS GAMES COMBAT STYLE THEN YOU WILL HAVE AN AWFUL TIME PLAYING THIS.

Very good, I love cutting peoples heads off and shooting people off their horses. The movement and attacking reminds me a lot like DayZ