Slain [official site] was full of retro \m/etal style, with pixel art skulls bathed in lurid lighting, skellingtons to bash, blood and slime all over the place, and music by a former member of Celtic Frost. It’s a shame that the hack ‘n’ slash platforming all that is built upon was kinda blah. The developers had rushed it out, see, planning to patch later. Unsurprisingly, its launch was not graceful. But! They have followed through with the patching, and after several months it’s now reborn as Slain: Back From Hell with a whole load of fixes and new features.

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