Slain: Back From Hell Coming to Xbox One in October

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Alan Pettit
 
It's the season of Kickstarter releases! First we heard Earthlock: Festival of Magic will launch as a Games With Gold title in September, then Jotun: Valhalla Edition will be coming out a week later. Now we have one more Kickstarter darling to look forward to the month after, as Slain: Back From Hell will be releasing in October.
 
Slain: Back From Hell is a revamped version of the original "heavy metal Castlevania" by one-man team Wolf Brew Games (Andrew Gilmour), which was successfully funded back in March of 2015. The original game launched on Steam to "Mixed" reviews with a litany of issues, and has received "Very Positive" reviews since its relaunch with reworked combat, more enemies and bosses, and a new achievement list to work toward. It features:
  • Challenging ‘elemental’- based melee and magical combat 
  • 6 hours of bone-crushing, metal-fueled mayhem & gore 
  • Choose from 3 unique weapons in your fight against the demon hordes. 
  • Full soundtrack recorded by Curt Victor Bryant formally of Celtic Frost. 
  • Cunningly concealed secrets (shhh). 
  • Boss fights, mini-boss fights, sub-mini- boss fights & macro-sub- mini-boss fights. 
  • No laborious levelling, no tedious grinding, no wimpy crafting!
"You control the fate of Bathoryn, a doomed hero in a Gothic world, who seeks to liberate six cursed realms from six deadly overlords. He must battle his way through this blighted land, packed with gruesome pixel art foes before ascending (or sometimes descending) into a stronghold, all the while defeating fiendish traps and vile monsters alike. At the heart of every domain Bathoryn will confront a mighty foe - defeat it and his quest continues to its ultimate destiny. 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…"

Slain: Back From Hell will be available on Xbox One October 5th with a $12.99 price tag.

Comments
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  • Heavy metal Castlevania? $12.99? I'm all over this.
  • This looks sick!
  • Hey Pants talking about the kickstarter season there's a game that just got funded and it's coming to the X1, called "GLITCHED" if you care to make an article about it.
  • I'm not big on indie titles, but that looks SICK!
  • I'm glad it's only 13 bucks. Way too many small games are launching at 20
  • @3: I backed that too! I'll check with Dan, he's usually skeptical on covering Kickstarter titles early in their lifespans since there have been a lot that ended up folding. I feel like that is getting rarer these days though. So many great successes.
  • Did someone knows what happened? It is not available to download.
  • Yep it's still not available. Can we get an update?
  • what's with to different dates Developer: Wolf Brew Games Publisher: Digerati Distribution Genre: Action Release: US October 21, 2016 AND Slain: Back From Hell will be available on Xbox One October 5th with a $12.99 price tag.
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