About the Game
MORDHAU is a medieval first & third person multiplayer slasher. Enter a hectic battlefield of up to 64 players as a mercenary in a fictional, but realistic world, where you will get to experience the brutal and satisfying melee combat that will have you always coming back for more.
Features:
- Massive battles: From small-scale engagements to 64-player all-out war in modes such as Frontline and Invasion.
- Cooperative & offline play: Fight waves of enemies alongside your friends in the cooperative Horde mode, or practice your skills offline against AI.
- Free-form melee and ranged combat: Gain complete control over your character and attacks and develop your unique style.
- In-depth character customization: Sculpt your face, create your weapon from parts, and pick out individual pieces of armor to create the perfect warrior.
- Huge arsenal of weapons & equipment: Take on enemies with a greatsword, rain arrows from above, or even sit back and build fortifications.
- Fight anywhere: Experience cavalry charges, fight on ladders, and operate siege engines such as the catapult and ballista.
- Visceral and gory combat: Feel the impact of every blow, and send limbs flying as you wreak havoc upon your foes. (Blood & gore are optional)
- Believable fights: A game where fights look believable, MORDHAU strikes a balance between gameplay and realism.
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 16143657
Up to date
Patch 29 Hotfix #3 Changelog 07/16/2024
Demon Horde
- Decreased enemy fall damage taken
- Fixed an area in Totenwald where enemies would get stuck
- Fixed wrong version of explosive barrel in the buy menu
- Decreased kick knockback while having Blessed Fists
- Decreased Holy Hand Grenade knockback
Patch 29 Hotfix #1 Changelog 05/13/2024
Demon Horde
- Improved Demon Horde performance at later stages
- Fixed map bosses sometimes spawning with less health
- Fixed objective catapult taking damage from weapons
- Fixed lighting disparity in local Demon Horde match
- Castello - Fixed final-objective cannon sometimes being inoperable
- Mountain Peak - Fixed first boss lightning attack sound
- Totenwald - Fixed invisible collision blocking path
- Totenwald - Adjusted log health scaling rate
- Totenwald - Increased boss health
- Fixed Blessed Longsword misaligned particle effects
Gameplay
- Fixed Holy Grenade not having a cooldown
- Blessed Eveningstar no longer stuns bosses
- Blessed Crossbow no longer affects bosses
- Blessed Executioner no longer affects vehicles
- Added Explosive keg to Horde and Demon Horde buying menu
- Disabled knockback blessing effect on Rake if player is falling
Maps
- Totenwald - Fixed the mercenary select being blacked out
- Totenwald - Fixed various spots where player could get stuck
- Totenwald - Fixed spots where player experienced a whiteout effect
- Mountain Peak - Fixed invisible collisions blocking players
- Mountain Peak - Fixed bot navigation mesh issues
Weapons
- Removed reload turn-caps for Chickenator
Skins
- Fixed Warrior and Huntsman gloves not following face selection
UI
- Horde/ Demon Horde Ultimate icon no longer visible when spectating other players
Patch #27 - Hotfix 2 Changelog 02/06/2023
General
- Re-enabled the suicide functionality in the FFA and TDM Brawl modes.
- Added a new Message of the day (MOTD) system that replaces the old system that was hastily removed with a silent hotfix to address a reported RCE exploit.
- Addressed the ability to spam voice lines in rapid succession before they finish playing.
Party system
- Improved user experience and stability of the party system.
- Added the functionality to auto-join ranked matchmaking from unranked matches.
- Addressed the disappearing “+” icon.
- Added smooth-scroll to the Friends list.
Gameplay
- Getting a kill while mounted now counts toward the weapon progression.
Weapons & Equipment
- Addressed changing loadout on match-start cooldown giving the players loadout weapons and items.
UI
- Fixed a number of resolutions with uncommon aspect ratios affecting column visibility in the Server list.
- Votekick and forgive popup windows enlarged.
Patch #27 - Hotfix 1 Changelog 30/03/2023
General
- Female French and German voices are now working as intended
Gameplay
- Disabled Suicide option in FFA, TDM and Swordgame to prevent kill denial
Horde
- Wearables can now be filtered with search
- Changed revive timer to 60s
- Changed respawn timer to 15s
UI
- Any changes made to a mercenary are now applied if you press escape or back
Patch #26 - Hotfix #1 28/10/2022
General
- Removed duplicate options in Game settings
Maps
- Castello - removed spawn protection killing players inside objective area
Skins
- Fixed clipping of the Dragon set Greatsword guard
- Fixed Maximilian Gauntlets team color not being applied and added additional color patterns
- T0 & T2 legs now can use landsknecht shoes and mail shoes with spurs
- Dragon gorget now equipable with no helmet
- Crusader coifs no longer equipable with Dragon helmets due to clipping
Patch #25 - Hotfix #2 05/07/2022
General
- Fixed temporary input loss case if TAB is pressed on spawn select screen
- Party system fix attempt
- Fixed nameplates not showing for friends
- Fixed sound playing when searching for loadouts
Maps
- Crossroads: Fixed tower climbing spot
- Castello: Added volume block on the table to prevent noble camp on INV, Fixed audio volumes
- Feitoria: Fixed missing collisions
- Fix attempt for swapped defending team objective text
- HRD_Arid: Fixed two bot stuck spots
- Reverted changes in Grad that made the gameplay area smaller in TDM and FFA
- Fixed bot navigation in all game modes on Arid
Weapons & Equipment
- Moved Partisan to 2h category
- Added throw UI indicator for War Axe
- Fixed Noble throwing axes being gone once ammo runs out
Horde
- Fixed being able to use Partisan in 1h mode
- Fixed Horde throwing axes being gone once ammo runs out
- Fixed Horde rocks not switching to other weapon once ammo runs out
Skins
- Fixed basic leather shoes only taking 1 color
- Fixed butcher skirt clipping with several chest pieces
- Fixed new crusader coifs deleting your nose
- Added a few more armor combinations
- Fixed not being able to be a peasant monk
- Removed some armor combinations due to clipping
- Fixed plated mail taking team color on metal plates
- Fixed grotesque sabaton missing ankle
- Savoyards can now be used without a neck option
- Removed wrong patterns on the rus conic helmet
This first hotfix mainly addresses the loss of all input in some cases like spamming certain keys, as well as some quick fixes for pressing issues on Arid.
General
Maps
Skins
Horde
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Patch #25 - Hotfix #1 27/06/2022
General
- Novice servers are now shown on Server browser tab for Novice players (colored green)
- Fix attempt for getting kicked off novice servers on map change
- Fixed input issue on spawn select screen
- Fixed input issue when chat key is spammed when map is loading
- Fixed input issue after selecting a chat context menu admin action
- Fixed issue with loadout deletion when the RMB context menu is used to delete a non-selected loadout
- Fixed scoreboard auto-scroll when interacting
- Fixed camera offset in Horde equipment armory
- Fixed issue with loadout deletion when the RMB context menu is used to delete a non-selected loadout
- Fixed Nubian wrong skin color in 1P
- Added auto-switch to last equipment when last shot is fired for Horde throwing knife, horde throwing axe, horde firebomb, horde black fire bomb, noble smoke bomb, noble throwing axe, noble throwing knife
- Fixed weapon bundle not being able to count its visual stage
Maps
- Arid:
- Fixed material swimming on low or medium graphics setting
- Camels will now respawn
- Adjusted collision on rubble pile ramps
- Added rock spawners in some places
- Fixed misaligned textures and vertex colors on some buildings
- Adjusted wooden planks on a ramp for smoother navigation
- Fixed pusher NPC max health displaying incorrectly
- Fixed material swimming on low or medium graphics setting
- Feitoria:
- Fixed up a case where INV is uncompletable
- Fixed up a case where INV is uncompletable
Skins
- Added gold price to Calipha dagger
- Added gold price to Heater Shield Adarga
Horde
- Fixed an issue where the harder version of ogre dealt 360 degree damage. Also lowered his base damage.
- Lowered revive time
- Slightly nerfed amount of minibosses in latter waves
Patch #24 - Hotfix #3 Changelog 30/12/2021
General
- Fix attempt for loss of spectator controls/input on death which happened to some players and required reconnecting
- Fixed stuck spot on Cortile
- Fixed a Castello exploitable spot
- Fixed Gothic pauldrons not being masked correctly
- Horde: Poleaxe hammer mode now has chip damage
- Horde: Fixed a bot stuck spot on Camp rocks
Another quick hotfix before the end of the year.
General
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Patch #24 - Hotfix #2 Changelog 29/12/2021
General
- Fix attempt for Noria gate not destroying properly
- Fixed Noria wheel collision desyncing
- Small optimizations for burnable objectives (FX/Decals/Audio)
- Minor Cortile fixes
- Misc Equipment/Armor LOD fixes
- Tweaks to toolbox buildable placement
- Fixes for Taiga landscape breaking
- Fixed tent collision settings on Camp not blocking projectiles
- Tweaks to AI focus change during attacks to stick on one target
- Horde: revive time from 1.5s to 3.5s
- Horde: Various balance tweaks to skills
- Horde: Bear traps no longer trigger on friendlies. Increased max amount placed from 5 to 8.
- Horde: Tweaked drop rates for gamble chests
- Horde: Fixed Yeoman damage bonus not working
- Horde: Nerfed Fire Arrows (from 1s -> 0.5s and 30% to 25%)
- Horde: Nerfed Volley (Upgrade now gives +10% instead of +20% dmg)
- Horde: Nerfed longbow damage
- Horde: Wave income tweaks
- Horde: Various equipment price adjustments
- Horde: Lowered resupply timer for fire bombs
Patch #24 Hotfix 1 Changelog 22/12/2021
Small batch of fixes to address some issues on Noria, as well as some other miscellaneous problems.
General
- Fixed some climb exploits and stuck spots on Noria
- Fixed Horde spawns on HRD_Noria
- Tweaked audio on Cortile
- Fixed music on Castello being duplicated
- Fixed players sometimes getting stuck in the ground after getting revived in Horde
- Fixed Horde HUD button prompts not corresponding to bound button
- “Elite knight” enemies no longer use the boss icon in Horde
- Potential fix for the palace gate on Invasion Noria not getting destroyed
- Temporarily disabled the spawn screen icon overlap fix as it was causing issues
- Removed wrong patterns from the Leather pads over hosen
- Added missing archer arms to the scale tunic
- Removed lion arms combo with the peasant shirt
- Added chain boots to t2 armored hosen variations
- Fixed some AI stuckspots on HRD_Castello and HRD_Crossroads
- Purchaseable bandages in Horde now use the intended settings
- Fixed Horde items instantly appearing in your hand after getting restocked from 0 ammo
- Fixed a bug with the ammo auto-restocking present in Horde. It will now start restocking once ammo changes, not in fixed intervals
- Changes to auto join, parties of <=3 players will be grouped together whenever possible. Parties of >=4 players (4-6) will be split evenly across teams when possible.
- Water wheels on Noria should no longer block projectiles
- Added Scimitar to HRD_Camp
Patch #23 Hotfix 2 Changelog 08/11/2021
Another small hotfix to iron out some map issues mostly.
General
- fixed turn cap issue with vehicles
Maps
- Fix for collision issue on Feitoria stairs
- Removed ballista from Castello smaller modes
- Altered Castello ballista turn limits to be stricter
- Removed 8 minutes total from Castello INV to reduce frequency of long matches
- Fixed issue with Castello foliage density not applying to all foliage
- Added icons to barricaded doors on Castello INV
- Altered some collision issues on Castello rubble ramps
Sounds
- Adjusted heart beat sound so it doesn't muffle other game sounds
- Reverted Lute octaves
Patch #23 Hotfix 1 Changelog 29/10/2021
Minor hot fix mostly addressing the new version of Castello, and the new heart beat sound.
Maps
- Altered capture point sizes on Castello
- Adjusted spawns on some objectives for INV Castello
- Fixed Castello AI movement being broken in general
- Added some out of bounds areas to prevent griefing on first objective.
Sounds
- Adjusted heart beat sound to fall off in volume faster.
Current Release
Build 16143657
Uploaded Oct 26, 2026
System Requirements
OS
Windows® 10 64 Bit (latest update)
CPU
Intel Core i5 - 4670 or AMD equivalent
RAM
8 GB RAM
GPU
NVIDIA GTX 680 or AMD equivalent
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .ZIP file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run Mordhau.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Archive password
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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