Slain: Back from Hell
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Slain: Back from Hell is an adventure developed by Andrew Gilmour Games, released 24 March 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Wii U. The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.
What Slain: Back from Hell is
Slain: Back from Hell is an adventure game developed by Andrew Gilmour Games and released in 2016. It was published by Digerati Distribution. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 30 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Slain: Back from Hell holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 18 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 12 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.5 Ghz or faster and 1 GB RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Slain: Back from Hell launched on 24 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman and Ratchet & Clank. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank.
Official trailer
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