
Down to Hell
Down to hell is a dynamic slasher in which lone swordsman must face the hordes of hellish demons.
If Slain: Back from Hell scratched a brutal and dark itch for you, keep reading. These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.
A heavy metal run-and-gun platformer. Therion fights back into the fortress of Valfaris, which vanished from the galactic charts and came back orbiting a dying sun, now crawling with things that need shooting. Brutal weapons, savage bosses, hand-crafted pixel art and a soundtrack by a former Celtic Frost guitarist. Difficult, loud and proud of it.
Brutal, Dark, Retro
Down to hell is a dynamic slasher in which lone swordsman must face the hordes of hellish demons. Moreover Down to Hell will give you truly Heavy F’N Metal experience.
Brutal, Dark, Retro
In this game you will face violence and extraordinary complexity. You will have to become one of three heroes to slash enemies or to die from their hands. What will your hero do? It depends only on your skills…
Also in Soulslike · Brutal, Dark, Retro
A first-person slasher with souls-like melee combat, eleven weapons to master and a heavy metal soundtrack. Fight through a doomed city, learn every enemy's tricks, and carve out your own legend as the dark messiah the barbarian tribes have been waiting for.
Also in Soulslike · Brutal, Dark, Fast-paced
A game about parrying, attacking, and overcoming difficult foes
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
A grim hack and slash from 2001 that helped shape a whole genre. Pick one of four warriors, learn deep combo combat, and carve through orcs, demons and traps in a dark fantasy world. It is hard, bloody and unapologetically old school, and that is exactly the point.
Also in Soulslike · Brutal, Dark, Retro
Slayer is a strategic action game built around a finely tuned combat system and dark narrative. Survival demands more than quick reflexes—you must consider movement direction, positioning, attack angles, parrying, dodging timing, and map structure.
Dark, Retro, Fast-paced
Slave Zero X is a stylish 2.5D character action game set in the biopunk world of Slave Zero (1999). Run & Slash your way through a dystopian future in this character action game which will resonate with fans of Devil May Cry, Strider, and Guilty Gear.
Brutal, Dark, Retro
An arcade isometric shooter about a dead knight killing everything in an eldritch abyss. Fast, brutal and built for score chasing: five hand-crafted arenas, a deep arsenal and runs short enough that one more go is always tempting. It is hard, and it knows it.
Brutal, Dark, Retro
An intense and challenging boss battle in an abstract horror world.
Dark, Retro, Fast-paced
SLAUGHTER VOID is a heavy metal dark fantasy slasher where hesitation is death. Chain kills, keep your momentum, shape your build, and slaughter your way into the Void.
Brutal, Dark, Retro
A gothic metroidvania with soulslike teeth. Eryk wakes with no memory in a cursed world, and his mind is running out. Carve your own path with swords, guns and spells, learn every boss the hard way, and let the gorgeous pixel art haunt you.
Also in Soulslike · Brutal, Dark, Retro

Down to hell is a dynamic slasher in which lone swordsman must face the hordes of hellish demons.

In this game you will face violence and extraordinary complexity.

A game about parrying, attacking, and overcoming difficult foes

An intense and challenging boss battle in an abstract horror world.

SLAUGHTER VOID is a heavy metal dark fantasy slasher where hesitation is death.

Slay grim cultists, infernal minions, and nightmarish creatures in this dark and bloody retro-inspired action platformer.

Discover and destroy increasingly horrifying creatures across an oppressive lofi world, wielding fierce weaponry and powerful magic in this…

You are a cyborg on a mission to exterminate humanity, one blood-soaked platform level at a time.

Explore alternative realities while trying to save Your own from approaching annihilation.

Rising Hell is a vertical platformer rogue-lite filled with adrenaline-pumping action and tons of heavy gothic metal shreds.

Thy Sword is a hack n' slash platformer with procedural levels and roguelike elements. A world of Sword & Sorcery awaits!

Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements.

False Hero is a fast-paced soulslike where every enemy you kill teaches you its attack.

Divinum is an action-adventure that blends stylish, expressive combat with rewarding exploration.

Saint Slayer is an NES-style 2D action game, featuring loads of stages, enemies, and gore set against the backdrop of late-17th century Europe.

A top-down arcade shooter where a condemned knight carves through swarms of horrors across five deadly layers of the Abyss.

Swap between fighters in the middle of a combo and carve through machine hordes in a ruined future, one run at a time.

Fight through procedural nightmares in fast first-person brawls where every slash, kick and dash chains into the next, and one mistake ends the run.

A first-person hack-and-slash from a solo developer. Dash through a broken dark fantasy world, carve through hordes with elemental fury, build wild…

Slay grim cultists, infernal minions, and nightmarish creatures in this dark and bloody retro-inspired action platformer.

Pick a damned hero, mow down endless Norse hordes and win the gods' blessings, one brutal run at a time.

You are an angel with one holy job: shoot your way through Hell and kill Satan.

Skelethrone is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls.

Fight through a cursed, crumbling world as Eryk, whose fading memory is as fragile as your health bar.

False Hero is a fast-paced soulslike where every enemy you kill teaches you its attack.

Divinum is an action-adventure that blends stylish, expressive combat with rewarding exploration.

SLAUGHTER VOID is a heavy metal dark fantasy slasher where hesitation is death.

Carve your path through hordes of enemies, defying the gods to seize the power of Morrigan, Goddess of Death, and retrieve the soul of your beloved!

Saint Slayer is an NES-style 2D action game, featuring loads of stages, enemies, and gore set against the backdrop of late-17th century Europe.

Swap between fighters in the middle of a combo and carve through machine hordes in a ruined future, one run at a time.

Slay grim cultists, infernal minions, and nightmarish creatures in this dark and bloody retro-inspired action platformer.

Pick a damned hero, mow down endless Norse hordes and win the gods' blessings, one brutal run at a time.

Fight through procedural nightmares in fast first-person brawls where every slash, kick and dash chains into the next, and one mistake ends the run.

Slayer is a strategic action game built around a finely tuned combat system and dark narrative.

Cut through a dark fantasy empire as a betrayed general, learning every boss the hard way.

A first-person hack-and-slash from a solo developer. Dash through a broken dark fantasy world, carve through hordes with elemental fury, build wild…