Skul: The Hero Slayer has bought 2 million copies since launch, placing the sidescrolling motion roguelike in that prime tier of multi-million-selling video games. Skul’s Useless Cells-esque and Hole Knight-like motion by no means had an enormous single spike in recognition, however has steadily grown in gross sales since its January 2021 launch alongside fairly common giant additions and patches.
“We’re past excited to announce that Skul: The Hero Slayer has surpassed 2 million copies in gross sales. That is one other big report achieved since we introduced that Skul bought 1 million copies final yr. We want to categorical honest gratitude to everybody for taking part in Skul and giving great assist up till now,” mentioned developer Southpaw Video games in an announcement.
Skul is the story of a bit skeleton who battles the forces of humanity to be able to save his grasp, the demon king.
This yr noticed two massive updates to Skul, one including an extra-hard story-extending darkish mirror mode and one other including a brand new chapter to the story, the Demon King’s Citadel Protection. This yr additionally noticed the discharge of Skul’s first paid DLC, the Mythology Pack, that added a bunch of recent skulls and gadgets to gather.
Skul is at its core an motion platformer that focuses on its hero, the final skeleton left after the entire different forces of evil have been worn out. Skul can swap his head round with the heads of different issues, their skulls, permitting him to realize new assaults with new velocity, vary, and energy. Person critiques typically evaluate it to Useless Cells in some elements, Hole Knight in others, and infrequently name it—solely considerably jokingly—”roguelike Maplestory.”
You could find Skul: The Hero Slayer on the market on Humble, Steam, Epic, and Microsoft for US $20. It is 50% off on a couple of of these for the varied winter gross sales, and the 2M copies bought announcement says that low cost will probably be preserved till January 18.