Battle Axe
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 is an adventure developed by Bitmap Bureau, released 16 April 2021 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What Battle Axe is
Battle Axe is an adventure game developed by Bitmap Bureau and released in 2021. It was published by Numskull Games. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
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, Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Battle Axe launched on 16 April 2021, within three weeks of Resident Evil Village, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Returnal and Disco Elysium: The Final Cut. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil Village, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Returnal, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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