Skul: The Hero Slayer is an indie, released 21 January 2021 on Linux.
What Skul: The Hero Slayer is
Skul: The Hero Slayer was released in 2021. It is available on Linux only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Skul: The Hero Slayer is a roguelike-action platformer developed by SouthPAW Games and published by Neowiz. The game was released on January 21, 2021 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux, and launched on October 21, 2021 for Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4. A version for Android and iOS was released on June 4, 2024. In the game, players control a skeleton named Skul as he attempts to save demonkind from their enemies, the heroes. The player can swap Skul's head for different skulls, granting new combat abilities across randomly-generated levels. The game received positive reviews on release.
How it plays
There are 101 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Skul: The Hero Slayer holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Skul: The Hero Slayer launched on 21 January 2021, within three weeks of Little Nightmares II, Hitman 3, The Medium and Yakuza 3 Remastered. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Little Nightmares II, Hitman 3, The Medium, Yakuza 3 Remastered.
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.
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