Skara: The Blade Remains (2014) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Skara: The Blade Remains

Skara is a competitive hack and slash being developed independently with Unreal 4. Team up with or against your friends and compete for dominance in a world racked by cosmic disaster. In a world broken apart…

27 October 2014

What Skara: The Blade Remains is

Skara: The Blade Remains is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by 8-bit Studio and released in 2014. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Skara is a competitive hack and slash being developed independently with Unreal 4. Team up with or against your friends and compete for dominance in a world racked by cosmic disaster. In a world broken apart by cataclysm, how long can you stay alive? Fight for what’s left in Skara, the first versus fighting game of its kind. Choose from among five races and join up to 16 players online to engage in close combat. Enjoy the freedom to customize your character’s look, equipment and fighting style. Then prepare for battle, be it for five minutes or five hours. In Skara, actual players are the protagonists. Dominate Skara’s arenas individually or as part of warring factions.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. Available modes: Co-operative and Multiplayer.

What it launched against

Skara: The Blade Remains launched on 27 October 2014, within three weeks of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition and Assassin's Creed Unity. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Assassin's Creed Unity.

Official trailer