Battle Axe: Special Edition
Battle Axe is an arcade top-down hack & slash featuring high-quality visuals created by veteran pixel artist Henk Nieborg, true to form game mechanics, and music from the legendary VGM composer Manami Matsumae…
Battle Axe: Special Edition is an adventure developed by Henk Nieborg, released 23 December 2022 on PlayStation 5.
What Battle Axe: Special Edition is
Battle Axe: Special Edition is an adventure game developed by Henk Nieborg and released in 2022. It was published by Numskull Games. It is available on PlayStation 5 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Battle Axe is an arcade top-down hack & slash featuring high-quality visuals created by veteran pixel artist Henk Nieborg, true to form game mechanics, and music from the legendary VGM composer Manami Matsumae – retro gamers rejoice!
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.
What it launched against
Battle Axe: Special Edition launched on 23 December 2022, within three weeks of Marvel's Midnight Suns, Chained Echoes, High on Life and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Reunion. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Midnight Suns, Chained Echoes, High on Life, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Reunion.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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