musou.
A subgenre of hack-and-slash usually involving fighting hundreds of enemies simultaneously in a mazelike 3D world, or an individual game in this genre (especially a game in the Warriors franchise).
Meaning & usage
A subgenre of hack-and-slash usually involving fighting hundreds of enemies simultaneously in a mazelike 3D world, or an individual game in this genre (especially a game in the Warriors franchise).
Where this word comes from
From Japanese 無双 (musō, “unrivaled”), the final word in the title of the 2000 game 真・三國無双 (Shin Sangokumusō, "True Three Kingdoms Unrivaled"), released in English territories as Dynasty Warriors 2.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.