Animate weapons

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Weapons (the kind normally wielded by someone) that fight on their own without anyone wielding or otherwise controlling them.

18
games
6
platforms

Alternate names: Living weapons
Name variations: animated weapons

Usually these float at a height from the ground.

These can range from mystical weapons that have gained sentience, enchanted weapons that were somehow given it, weapons with integrated artificial intelligence (and some other features), spirits possessing inanimate objects and making them move, etc.

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Games by year

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The first Animate weapons video game was released on February 28, 1998.

Runic Games published all these games.

Platforms

Windows 8
Linux 5
X360 2
Mac OS X 1
BSD 1
PS 1