Gladio Mori

Gladio Mori is a physics-driven gladiator fighting game. You fight with attacks that damage the body where they land, creating injuries that can weaken a fighter, cause them to bleed out or end the fight immediately. You can build your own attacks and movesets, customize your fighter, play a solo campaign or fight online with up to four players.

Body damage

Gladio Mori has no health bars. Injured muscles weaken strikes, severed arteries cause bleeding, and pierced vital organs can kill a fighter instantly. Hands, arms and legs can be cut off: losing a hand also means losing anything it holds, while losing a leg makes the rest of the fight more difficult.

Blunt weapons crack bones and stagger opponents. Blades cut along their sharpened edges, making strike angles important. Armour protects only the body parts it covers, leaving gaps as targets. Losing your sword hand can make fighting harder when it is left on the other side of the arena.

Create attacks and fighters

You can create attacks one pose at a time by setting a stance, positioning limbs and adjusting timing. Save individual moves, chain them into a moveset and take it into a fight. You can build a precise technique, recreate a favourite move or invent an unusual one. The in-game gallery lets you use complete movesets made by other players or combine their moves with your own.

The skin editor lets you paint and draw directly on your character. On PC, you can also download the skin template and edit it in an image editor. You can share your finished skin or choose one made by another player.

Weapons and armour

The game includes 34 weapons, three shields and 17 equippable armour pieces. Weapons range from gladii and spears to kanabos, halberds and guandaos; you can also fight with your fists, use a two-handed weapon or enter unarmed. Each weapon has a basic moveset that you can keep, edit or replace with one from the community. Armour ranges from bracers to full plate, and each piece protects the body part it covers.

Campaign and online fights

The solo campaign lets you fight AI opponents and learn the weapons and damage system. Online fights support up to four players, with cross-play between Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

Community creations and replays

The in-game mod gallery on PC and console includes community-made weapons, armour, arenas, movesets and character skins. Mods add more weapons beyond the 34 included in the base game, and PC players can publish their own creations for others to use.

You can save fights as replays, scrub through the action and move the camera freely.