

Battle Axe is an arcade top-down hack & slash featuring high-quality visuals created by veteran pixel artist Henk Nieborg, true to form game mechanics, and music from the legendary VGM composer Manami Matsumae – retro gamers rejoice!
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Plot-driven, grave, spare and nostalgic.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Bitmap Bureau
- Publisher
- Numskull Games
- Released
- April 16, 2021
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Engine
- Unity
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