
Every Musou Game Ranked
Musou spans 8 critic-rated games on CriticDB, released between 2011 and 2025. The highest-rated is Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (80) and the lowest is Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2 (55). Across 189 critic reviews, the series averages 73, and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment has drawn the most reviews.
Highest ratedHyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment 80
Lowest ratedFist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2 55
Series average73
Made byOmega Force, Koei Tecmo Games, Bird Studio
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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
8041 critic reviews·Nov 5, 2025·Koei Tecmo GamesSwitch 2“Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment’s story may fail to capture the promise of a Tears of the Kingdom prequel, but the gameplay more than makes up for that by wonderfully fusing its source material’s craziest ideas…”
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Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below
7916 critic reviews·Feb 25, 2015·Square EnixPCPS3PS4“Blighted by the night, vanquishing the plight by the children of the light.”
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Dragon Quest Heroes II
7923 critic reviews·May 26, 2016·Square EnixPCPS3PS4“Particularly after playing something that required so much of my time and energy (I’m looking at you, Persona 5), I enjoyed being able to power down and blast through Dragon Quest Heroes II.”
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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
7840 critic reviews·Nov 18, 2020·NintendoSwitch“It's been over 6 years since the original Hyrule Warriors released and here's Age of Calamity which ties in with Breath of the Wild.”
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Warriors All-Stars
7517 critic reviews·Mar 29, 2017·Koei Tecmo America CorporationPCPS4“Warriors All-Stars is the latest one-versus-thousand action title bringing together many of Koei Tecmo Games’ most beloved characters for an all-new Warriors style experience.”
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Berserk and the Band of the Hawk
7122 critic reviews·Oct 26, 2016·Koei Tecmo GamesPCPS3PS4“Slash and smash through enemies and environments alike in Omega Force's most brutal Warriors title to date, based on the manga and anime series Berserk.”
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Warriors: Abyss
7124 critic reviews·Feb 11, 2025·Koei Tecmo Games Co.PCPS4SwitchPS5 +1“Warriors: Abyss may stumble in its open-ended, cookie-cutter story and cut-and-paste boss battles, but the replayability that comes from its combat and the customization of its multitude of characters and builds helped…”
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Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2
556 critic reviews·Dec 19, 2012·Koei Tecmo GamesPS3Xbox 360“The bloody legacy of Fist of the North Star could have yielded a satisfying, violent melee action game, but intrusive and uninteresting cut scenes, neutered enemies, and repetitious combat make Ken's Rage 2 an exercise…”
Expansions & DLC
Add-ons, expansions and bundles, not included in the ranking.
Musou games in release order
- 2011Warriors: Legends of Troy—
- 2011Warriors Orochi 3—
- 2012Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 255
- 2014Hyrule Warriors—
- 2015Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below79
- 2016Dragon Quest Heroes II79
- 2016Berserk and the Band of the Hawk71
- 2017Warriors All-Stars75
- 2018Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition81
- 2020Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity78
- 2025Warriors: Abyss71
- 2025Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment80
