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Game
Game2019
MORDHAU
Developer Triternion
Mordhau is a multiplayer medieval hack and slash fighting game developed by the independent Slovenian studio Triternion, with a prominent aspect of skill-based competitive play and customization. It features a combat system emphasizing hand-to-hand combat, loosely based on historical techniques such as feints, redirection, and alternative use of weapons. Other features include ranged weapons, siege engines and… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
260 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 6, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
60
Fresh
137 positive · 92 negative
95% range 53–66%
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| Steam reviews | 137 | 92 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
31 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
90,496 of 113,280 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 260 · most liked firstSix years ago, I probably would've wrote a glowing review for this game. But after those six long years of playing this game, I fully realize now that this game was in its prime when no-one knew what they were doing. We still remembered how to not take this game seriously in the slightest and just have fun. The writing was on the wall when veteran players started offering "coaching" in exchange for real money. In my eyes, the playerbase completely lost the plot for why most of us got into this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly, it used to be a good game, but in it's current state I can't even recommend it on sale. The skill gap is huge, and the veterans of the game are ruthless and take pride into destroying noobs, which ruins the fun instantly. Dead game with 1k players on a good day.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →you need to quit job and gf and your life to be good at this game, fk this community and fk developers worst and most toxic game ever made
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No new content in 2 years. Poor playerbase full of either toxic losers or the most tryhard veteran players. Not new player or casual friendly for that matter.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Devs grasped defeat from the jaws of victory i genuinley cant fathom a fumble this bad. Some might say this game isnt dead but i beg to differ some people depending on their location can hardly find full servers and have to wait for certain times of the day to find frontline lobbies. No new player wants to invest time into a game that barly manages to scrape by with 1k players let alone learn the fundamentals thats required in order to be a valid competitor. If devs capitalized on mordhaus…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hundreds of reviews detailing this situation have been deleted from this store page. One of the worst cases of scamming on steam I've ever seen. One in three players in this game are using one or all of these cheats, there is no way to votekick them, and there is no way to report them. Auto-Parry: Automatically blocks incoming attacks from any direction, making the player nearly impossible to hit. Speedhacks: Increases movement or swing speed, often subtly (+5%) to avoid detection. Aim-Bots:…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game itself is very good, but it has devolved into useless bribed admins who are actively covering for cheaters. People are blatantly cheating their loadouts, their swing speed, their block cooldowns, they have infinite stamina, they 1 shot kill kings/nobles, they glitch outside of the map, and worse of all every single one of them will spam you with *there are no cheaters*. These people are the worst kind of cheaters, the kind that will do it blatantly then laugh in your face about it.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In current day, literally only enjoyable if you go in trying to be silly and mess around. If you do that it's great and still a lot of fun. If you actually want to play the game however just avoid. The core gameplay is based almost entirely on animation abuse and exploiting the fact that dragged attacks still do full damage even when the weapon is visibly stationary or at the very beginning of a swing animation, weapon momentum means nothing. Add in any amount of latency and the core combat is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately, Mordhau is in a rough spot today. The player base is small, and the only players left are absolute sweat lords who have mastered every mechanic, making it pretty brutal for new players. That being said, when this game was at its peak, it was truly something special. For such a small development team, they created a masterpiece. The massive team battles were absolute chaos, and there was nothing else quite like fighting alongside your brethren in the middle of a full scale…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →use to be good. now the only populated servers are ran by gatekeepers who all use discord and pay for vips. dont buy wait for a better game. devs dont bother with this anymore either. came back 6 months later. they dont like a hitler outfit because of course hes the bad european. the vips will dress up as holocaust victims and nobody says anything. also RDM is subjective. the top of the leaderboard will be the regulars who know each other. they all rdm. if you beat them they use their virtual…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is filled with closet cheaters that remove the turning cap while you are swinging making it completely unreadable. so, devs refuse to do anything, admins on private servers are incompetent and incapable of doing anything either, and calling people out is pointless because many of them are cheating and defend each other, avoid this game like the plague and wait for admortem, hopefully atleast the admortem devs want something other than money
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't get me wrong I love this game, but do I recommend it for new players? NO. It was insanely fun like 5 years ago but the learning curve is probably way too steep for new players & the game gets stale with such infrequent (and boring) updates.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You're essentially joining lobbies with players who've spent no less than every moment of their life to master the art of the sword. If you think you have a chance... If you think you'll get good enough if you practice.. You're wrong. My own skill issue asside.. Server stability is crap.. And it gets quite boring after a while.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →serverside blocking in a reaction based fighting game, came back after over a year and hit a triple 0ms red parry, which means that I blocked the frame I got hit 3 times in a row. I was punished for parrying frame perfect. A uniquely miserable experience.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →MORDHAU is a genuinely good game… and that’s what makes this sting. The melee combat is still some of the best in the genre: weighty, skill-based, and ridiculously satisfying when it clicks. When matches are lively, it can feel like medieval chaos in the best way. But it also feels abandoned. Updates have slowed to a crawl, and the community has thinned out, which makes the game feel like it’s fading. On top of that, the core loop starts to get stale after a while. Once you’ve done the same…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sad, best game in its genre but low pop and only last players are elitists gatekeepers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, insufferable playerbase
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some absolute Chad named Sans Undertale was playing Megalovania on the lute and a good portion of the server gathered around him cheering, dancing, and being merry until a man that looked like Guts came up and decapitated him then a all out brawl started. that's when I realized that this is a very good game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was a very good game with amazing skill based combat and very fun gameplay, but devs had no idea what were doing. Added some crap no one asked for, left the game with an awful balance. Out of dozens of weapons there are a few that stupidly overpowered, so the rest are pretty much useless, unless you know what you are doing. Can get boring really fast because of that. Combat system has a very disappointing flaw: you can slow down your weapon swing and it still deals full damage. So there are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the actual game is pretty decent. however nothing else about it is too fun. there is no casual side to the game, you arent going to really have fun playing the game because its playerbase, which is no suprise. is just people who have been playing for years. theres nothing wrong with that. however with no SBMM or casual modes, so you can connect the dots of how its not too fun. the community is not friendly either, most of the people who are very good are very toxic. cheating is an issue also,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR: Mordhau was one of the best melee combat games ever made. But it died a slow, silent death, neglected by its creators and abandoned by everyone else. Mordhau was - and in many ways still is - one of the finest multiplayer games I’ve ever played. Its melee combat system remains one of the most intricate and satisfying mechanics in gaming. It took what Chivalry built, refined it, and surpassed it in (almost) every conceivable way. When it launched, it felt alive. The movement was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this is a great game for all of the "abandoned" reviews, I urge you to remember a time where games could just be considered finished rather than everything being live service active servers, fun, mostly nontoxic community high skill curve but you can have fun even if you are bad
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This may be the hardest review I've ever had to write. I love this game. As the "Hours played" can attest, it gave me a lot of happy memories, especially during the stress of the pandemic lockdowns. But I can't in good conscience recommend it to new players as of summer 2026. Basically, this is and always has been a hard game to get good at--I don't think I ever reached that point--and between new players staying away due to that learning curve, intermediate players falling away from the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game, I like the combat in Mordhau, and I love making my own little guy with so many different armors to choose from, but I can not recommend this game for new players. You'll mostly find toxic players, and just people who take the game WAY too seriously in my opinion. From what I've seen from other reviews, people said the game was fun in its prime, but seems it has truly fallen. Going into this game is such a bad idea when you are new and it's a big learning curve. Mordhau is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is abandoned by the devs, it can be great fun but suffers from lack of content and modability to keep a level of longevity and it's playerbase is dwindling. Get it on a 75%+ off sale. Otherwise theres better alternatives to look into.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →holy toxic player base, a good friend gave me a key for this game and we played some of it and its was fun the horde mod and pvp with friends, then we when to join a public server and the players were so damn toxic, most of them were like level 100 to 200, so the pvp was 1 sided you couldnt hit them once they had faster attacks and would always kill you....
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of all : I really love this game . It is a cool game as long as you don´t take it too seriously. There are a lot of weapons to choose. nice maps, funny voice lines from different characters, beautiful character customization and cool players on community servers. The game has a few bugs, but i think that´s just part of the battlefield experience. BUT ... -this game is so frustrating... The skill gap between new players and veterans is HUGE ! You have to put hundreds of hours in this game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sweats ruined it years ago, game is basically on life support at this point. Made the same mistakes they said they wouldn't make.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Many players die in-game and get frustrated, but I am different. What is 100 deaths if I can punch a man in plate armor, what is 1000 deaths if I can pummel an archer and run off with their bow. Death does not define my life. Punch people, steal bows.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i don't recommend this game to a new player. Fundamentaly a great concept in it's combat. Very immersive until you dig a little depper into the highest skill combat. High skill comes down to exploiting movement and animation cancelling/changing. Once the unrealistic physics start being exploited the game falls apart. Spin, crouch and jump swings, as well as ridiculous drags. Feels great to chamber, riposte, counter and even drag realistically. All of those mechanics are great (although can use…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I realllllly like this game but i'm also in the camp of most people, I came too late to the party. PVP is an unforgiving mess for newbies (learning curve) and its just hard to feel that typical sense of online gaming accomplishment when the enemy always feels like Darth Vader in a spin off. Notes aside gameplay is super fun when you're not dead, customization is plentiful and varied, and the tone/atmosphere is stellar. If you want a brutal medieval slasher this is the game, however, this game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wanted to learn the game and saw that there was 1v1 servers, i love playing ranged characters so i went in and started shooting my opponents but they said i was "Bow RDM'ing" and kicked me from every server for just trying to play to my classes benefits, I don't understand. The active players are being classist and are not beginner friendly at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PVE = yes fun. PVP = no fun. ping and the fact this game is pretty much dead has made the pvp unplayable in SA servers
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its fun to play like once every few years, but in a single day you will find the game to be incredibly frustrating. The sword mechanics are incredibly complex, and while I'm sure this is fun if you have 1000 hours in the game, it makes it very difficult for new players. I try to get around this by playing with the building or archery mechanics, but half the time, your teammates will kick you and hit you if you place down any defenses. There is a reason the game has so few players now.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was fun while it lasted. These games die because the devs never listen to nor build a separate platform for the casual players. Skills based systems need to be implemented in all casual gamemodes. More casual gamemodes that are a little goofier and more gamey than realistic also help with retaining casual players.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a small community with a geriatric pulse, not for the feint (get it?) of heart, very noob-unfriendly. But for those with grit and determination; it's an addictive dopamine rush every kill you get, every team fight won, every objective taken with just seconds on the clock. I can also FEEL myself getting better at the game, your muscle memory has you doing crazy moves worthy of a hype-edit. My favorite thing about Mordhau is the community. I've heard it said that it's like showing up to a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tryhards and toxic people ruined Mordhau. This game now lies in the same grave as the original Chivalry, due to the same people.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have never seen another game capable of invoking the same feelings MORDHAU does to the same degree, and I'm not sure I ever will. There's a degree of connection between controls and character movement that lands somewhere between traditional fighting games and VR, and which lends itself to a uniquely dynamic, expressive link between player mentality and behaviour. Which is important, because MORDHAU is a game about predictive analysis as much as it is about reaction time and raw technical…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hilarious game. I play for stomach exercise. I laugh so much. The mayhem is just funny.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’ve been playing Mordhau on and off since launch, so heads up: this review is absolutely biased. As a long time vet, I love this game and there’s nothing else quite like it. Even today, it’s a low population game that still attracts returning veterans, because the combat system is unmatched and nothing in the genre fills the same gap imo. The melee gameplay is incredibly satisfying. Not perfect, but easily the best slasher combat I’ve experienced. Once you understand timing, feints, footwork,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →im genuinely begging someone to pick this up and continue development because there isnt another melee combat game that feels like this one. overall vibe is excellent the armor weapons and atmoshpere look and feel amazing. Its a dumb fun chaotic medieval battle simulator at low investment and one of the most complex and skill expressive pvp games out there if you really put your mind to learning. all it needs in my opinion is a system for new player onboarding because the learning curve for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After 1,400+ hours, I can confidently say that Mordhau is a one-of-a-kind game. I've played plenty of multiplayer games over the years, but none have offered the same level of freedom, expression, and unpredictability that this game does. The combat system has an incredibly high skill ceiling. Its also one of the biggest hurdles: expect to get destroyed for a long time. This isnt a game where you master the mechanics in a weekend. It takes hundreds of hours before you will even notice your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →horrible community, horrible game (also dead), combat is fun though
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →too many lifeless players with 200lvl i used to have 100lvl account, player base of 1 guy lvl400 with his 100 lvl200 friends taking the game so seriously and you better not bother there 12h of staring at other people who do 1v1, community servers are dead SINCE 2024 official servers ARE DEAD since the second week of last update (last update was in 1944) when was hitler cracking jokes, the usual Russian developers path, make a good game, no updates, let it die, make updates when one of the dev's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sad to say this game is getting more and more dead, which sucks since this games combat is amazing, its just the devs refused to add any more new content, at least ill have local matches when the game does eventually lose all players
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Look. It's a fun game at its core. In a vacuum I would recommend it. But it's not really a game worth getting into anymore due to the low remaining playerbase, many of which are sweatlords. To get into more detail, the fighting itself is cool. Easy to get into, but hard to master, a large variety of weapons and playstyles. The customization can be done by just grinding the game, but you're not awarded for performance. You're awarded for spending time in the matches. Which arguably is a plus,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →-get on game -customize -think your good after tutorial -killed in pvp -killed in pve -head rolling off more than mbappe's ball -cry -enjoy best medieval combat game ive ever played
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's a good game, but you won't enjoy with a full casual lobby, everyone is a tryhard.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was my favorite game at one point untill you face a level 340 and he sticks his massive Maul up ur ass. There are some of the most sweating fat ass ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ playing this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was a 10/10 on launch but devs priotitised sweaty duel players over everyone else, forcing a meta and ruining all the fun and interesting builds.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game's community is toxic. Game's staff team is toxic. The owner doesn't listen to feedback. You can't go anywhere without someone ruining the rest of the fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warning: Developers officially tolerate and protect sexual harassment I strongly advise against buying this game. Not because of the gameplay, but because of the disgusting moderation policy. Recently, I reported a player who was using extreme sexual threats against my family in the chat, including phrases like: "I will f** your mother/wife"*"You are a son of a w***"*I provided clear video evidence and a translation to the developers. To my absolute shock, the Community Manager (Titan)…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun game, but it feels like the most toxic relationship you'll ever be in.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What happened to this game??? It used to be such a GREAT game I haven't played it in years and NOTHING has changed at all no new content whatsoever and it's boring asf
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My son is playing a medieval fighting game called Mordhau, muttering about how other players wearing 12th century helmets with 14th century armor. And he’s stealing a catapult.
unlabelledView post →I love Mordhau but no one plays it anymore :( the people who still play are generally nice though.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nothing else will ever feel like this game does. Don't listen to other comments saying it's only try hards playing. Plenty of fun for people starting out in 2026.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →load up game pick dwarf perk start warcrying get my head chopped off repeat great game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →bought this game june 30 2021 back when it was pretty much just the base game, before the lion set or any of the armor packs came out. 2781 hours later and im still here lol used to come home from school and play for hours. weekends were all nighters, "one more match" till the sun came up. this game also got me through some rough stuff. when my grandma passed this is what i played to cope. might sound weird for a game where you smash peoples heads in but it means a lot to me been a maul…
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