- 60/100
- Players16 ratings
- 50/100
- Critics12 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic10 critic reviews
- 74/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 69/100
- GameFAQsTough
- 3.58/5
- Player reviews
- 71% positive1,694 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$12.99
Where to get it
2016 · Steel Mantis · Action · Adventure
Slain!
Slain: Back from Hell. A heavy metal inspired arcade combat with puzzle elements and gore galore. Stunning visuals and true old school gameplay accompanied by the most metal soundtrack you've ever heard.
- Released
- 24 March 2016
- Platforms
- LinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4PlayStation VitaWii UWindowsXbox OnemacOS
- Genres
- ActionAdventureArcadeFightingIndiePlatformer
- Developers
- Steel Mantis
- Publishers
- Digerati
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- ActionFantasyHorror
- Country
- United States
- Age ratings
- GRAC 15+CERO CPEGI 7USK 16ACB MCLASS_IND 12ESRB M
- Languages
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish (Spain)
- Time to beat
- 6hmain story12hcompletionist
About
Slain! is a platform game developed by Wolf Brew Games and published by Digerati Distribution. The game shares similarities in tone and design to the Castlevania series, with elements of medieval Gothic architecture and heavy metal. The game was received negatively at launch and was overhauled and relaunched as Slain: Back from Hell. The updated version received higher review scores.
›Story
Players control Bathoryn, a hero in a Gothic world, seeking to liberate seven great towers from 7 deadly overlords.
Bathoryn must battle his way through a doomed land packed with gruesome pixel art foes before ascending (or sometimes descending) each tower, defeating puzzles, traps and monsters alike. At the heart of each tower, he must confront a mighty overlord. Defeat it and Bathoryn’s quest continues. Fail, and you’ll die gruesomely – mauled by werewolves, disintegrated by floating monstrosities, squashed by great weights or torn apart by hidden blades. And you will fail…
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Development
Slain! was developed by Wolf Brew Games. The game was initially scheduled to be released in late 2015, but was delayed to 24 March 2016. Due to the negative reception of Slain!, the game was overhauled and relaunched as Slain: Back from Hell on 2 August of the same year. It was released on the Nintendo Switch, in North America and Europe on December 7, 2017, and in Japan on March 1, 2018.
Reception
Slain! received "mixed or average" and "generally unfavorable" reviews, depending on a platform, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Included in
- Digerati Horror BundlePixel Art Bundle Vol. 1Indie Darling Bundle Vol. 1Digerati Best SellersSword & Sorcery Bundle
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Collections1 collection
Years
- Games released in 2016List › January–March
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