Gladio Mori

Gladio Mori is a physics-driven gladiator fighting game from Plebeian Studio, a one-person studio in Northern Finland, published by Bonus Stage Publishing. There are no health bars. Damage is tracked inside the body instead: injured muscles weaken your strikes, severed arteries and lost limbs bleed you out over the course of a fight, and a well-placed thrust into the vitals ends it instantly. Weapons, armour and bodies all follow physics, and plate armour stops a cut, so winning means finding the gaps rather than simply landing more hits.

On Xbox, you build your fighting style from a gallery of community-made movesets, and you can mix individual moves together to create a style of your own. You can fight AI opponents, take on friends locally in split-screen, or head online for matches of up to four players, with cross-platform multiplayer.

Gladio Mori launched on Xbox Series X|S on 16 September 2026, and there’s a free demo on the Xbox Store. For Halloween, the Hallowed Dungeon update added the acid-ringed Dungeon arena, the Prisoner’s Machete with its own moveset, the Prisoner’s Mask and a Prisoner skin.