Skeletal Avenger News

We're gathering our final beta tester group. You can apply here: http://eepurl.com/hpp0mD (Windows & Steam required). If there are a lot of of applications, we might not be able to include everyone, but we'll draw randomly at that point.

In the animation you can see one of the adversaries in the Caverns biome: The Dark Elf Archer. They have an ability to become invisible so you need to reveal them somehow. Here the player uses an AOE attack. They also reveal themselves when attacking so you can counter attack at that point too.

10tons proudly presents: Skeletal Avenger Steam Fest Autumn Edition demo!



Skeletal Avenger is an ultra-smooth hack'n'slash dungeon dasher with lots of roguelite influences. Our greatest inspirations were games like Hades and Dead Cells and we think our core gameplay might be as smooth and satisfying as with those giants!

We have a striking special move too: You play as a reanimated skeleton and your special move is to throw your own decapitated head around!

In the demo your goal is to reach the boss and kill him. The levels are a mixture of handcrafted and procedurally generated, so each run will be different. The demo is approximately 15-60 minutes long depending on how you play. The demo doesn't include any meta game elements, but it should showcase the core game quite well!

We hope you'll have fun playing the demo. You can discuss it on the forums or join us on discord at http://discord.gg/10tons

We'll grab a few beers and play through the demo and then show some parts of the full game in a dev stream. We'll be also answering questions and generally chatting about the game and the development. So grab a beverage and join us on October 8th - the event should display the exact time in your timezone!

We'll also be releasing a single quest demo of Skeletal Avenger before the festival starts, so you can experience the gameplay yourself!

We have been running silent with Skeletal Avenger for about three months. This is because we've been working hard on the game and we've also had some other games to talk about like Tesla Force which just released in Early Access. That said, now we're starting to open the lid on Skeletal Avenger as well!

At its core, Skeletal Avenger is a fast-paced hack'n'slash dungeon crawler. HADES and Dead Cells have influenced the core gameplay and our goals with it a lot. Above you can see some current gameplay. We hope you can maybe imagine the extreme fluidity and responsiveness of the gameplay even though you can't experience it yet ;)

In the video you can see the basic core game actions: hacking, slashing, dodging with dash and then finalizing an enemy with a "Wizard's Hat" exploding as it hits the enemy.

With the core game we're now in a very good place: It feels extremely good and can compete with the top titles like the extremely popular HADES. We're still working on the meta game and hope to have a near final version in the coming weeks. We've only been playing the game internally so far, but in future there'll2 be external testing as well. If you're interested, sign up at skeletalavenger.com for opportunities.

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more updates where we'll be talking about various aspects of Skeletal Avenger!

Hello everyone! We're happy to finally announce Skeletal Avenger. We wanted to do this a bit earlier this year, but the pandemic situation with daycare and school closures derailed our schedule a bit. However, we're now there! And at least for the time being, the epidemic situation in Finland is on the decline so that's also good news.

We're also mostly working remotely but that has had only minor effects on the development. The communication might be a bit harder, but other than that no big surprises for us. We've been working remotely part time before, so we already had all the systems ready.

Some people may wonder what we mean by reverse roguelite. There are multiple aspects, but one of the main things is that you ascend from the dungeon instead of descending forever. The other thing is that the game is more episodic: You can complete a revenge quest or die trying. If you complete the quest, the spirit is freed and another re-animated skeleton will continue with another revenge. The rewards gathered by the previous avenger can be used to make the next one more powerful. So you die constantly and it is part of the fun, but in a different way from many other roguelites.

That's it for today. We'll keep posting news on the store page so wishlist and follow for all the latest info!

Head first into battle!