Skul: The Hero Slayer is an indie developed by SouthPaw Games, released 20 January 2021 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android.
What Skul: The Hero Slayer is
Skul: The Hero Slayer is an indie game developed by SouthPaw Games and released in 2021. It was published by Neowiz. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
What's left of the Demon King's castle... The human race attacking the Demon King's castle is nothing new and has happened countless times before. What makes this time different though, is that the Adventurers decided to join forces with the Imperial Army and the 'Hero of Caerleon' to finally succeed in the total destruction of the Demon stronghold. All of the demons in the castle were taken prisoner except for one lone skeleton named 'Skul'.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Skul: The Hero Slayer holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Skul: The Hero Slayer launched on 20 January 2021, within three weeks of Little Nightmares II, Hitman 3, The Medium and Skul: The Hero Slayer. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Little Nightmares II, Hitman 3, The Medium, Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Skul: The Hero Slayer yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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