From the ex-Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive team comes a janky love letter to PS2-era action. Play a week in the life of the Zombie Unit: an elite Hong Kong police squad carving through a corporate conspiracy in a storm of swordplay and gunfire. Stylish, brutal, and absolutely not for everyone.

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“Great combat system and likeable allusions to past decades.”
8/10 – Eurogamer DE

“Solid and definitely has an audience. There could be some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun.”
7.5/10 – Destructoid

“Wanted: Dead pulls no punches when it comes to challenging the player, but that’s what makes finally completing it feel so satisfying.”
4/5 – Hardcore Gamer

About This Game

A cult classic.

Wanted: Dead is a hybrid slasher/shooter that plays like a lost PS2 disc someone dared to actually finish. It's a hard, weird, gorgeous action game with zero interest in being for everyone. Built by veterans of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive, it fuses razor-precise swordplay with third-person gunfire in a combat system that rewards you for being reckless and stylish at the same time.

Combat with teeth.

Chain melee and gunplay into brutal, screen-filling combos. Parry, dismember, and finish enemies with executions that are as grotesque as they are satisfying. Slow the chaos to a crawl in bullet time and then punish everything on screen. The fights are demanding and occasionally unfair.

A week in the life of the Zombie Unit.

You are Lt. Hannah Stone, leading an elite Hong Kong police squad through a neon-soaked corporate conspiracy. It's a linear and story-rich campaign that swerves without warning from grim ultraviolence to something stranger.

Unapologetically weird.

This is a game where you'll finish a brutal boss fight and then sit down to a lovingly rendered ramen-eating minigame, or a round of karaoke, or an arcade cabinet. The whiplash isn't a bug, it's the personality. It's scrappy, pulpy, and self-aware.

Rough around the edges. On purpose.

Wanted: Dead is niche, distinctive, and proud of its jank. If you grew up on Deadly Premonition, Vanquish, and Lollipop Chainsaw and you've been missing games with this much attitude: welcome home.

Key Features.

  • Melee that means it: A deep hack-and-slash system with a huge move set and finishers built to slice, dice, and dismember.

  • Guns in the same breath: Flow straight from the blade into a handpicked arsenal of assault rifles, SMGs, LMGs, and grenade launchers. Melee and gunplay are one nasty rhythm.

  • 50+ brutal finishers: Over fifty unique execution moves, each more grotesque than the last. Deeply unnecessary and yet absolutely the point.

  • Neon and grime: A cyberpunk Hong Kong where high-tech hardware collides with retro '90s futurism.

  • A story that swerves: Ride with the Zombie Unit as they pull apart a massive corporate conspiracy in a dystopian Hong Kong. Linear, story-rich, and prone to going somewhere strange.

  • Genuinely hardcore: These fights will not be kind to you. Steel up and use everything around you to cut through hordes of mercenaries, synthetics, and private security who very much want you dead.

  • Old-school beat 'em up, modern edge: Wade in, take everything down, keep moving. It's the beat 'em up you grew up on dragged into the present with more blood and better toys.

  • A love letter to the sixth console generation: Made for anyone who still misses the PS2 era when action games were weird, scrappy, and cool.

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Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Frequent Violence and Gore, Dismemberment and blood

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64bit, Windows 11 64bit
    • Processor: Intel i5 2500K
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 50 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: DirectX feature level 11_1 is required
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64bit, Windows 11 64bit
    • Processor: Intel i7 2700K
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
    • DirectX: Version 12
    • Storage: 50 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: DirectX feature level 11_1 is required

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