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Choose an outcast Knight, Huntress, or Mage to battle the Slormancer’s forces, gather loot, and shape your build through dungeon runs.
Released 13 May 2025
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Fight hordes of enemies led by The Slormancer, an evil warlock from the past, in an absurd yet epic Action RPG! Experience fast-paced gameplay, loads of shiny loot, tons of collectibles, countless hours of content, and carefully crafted pixel art.
Developed by Slormite Studios · Published by Slormite Studios, Abiding Bridge
The Slormancer is a single-player 2D action RPG about a band of outcasts fighting the forces of the Slormancer, an evil warlock from the past. Play as a Knight, Huntress, or Mage and battle to protect the realm.
Take on dungeon adventures across different environments, fighting groups of monsters, elites, and bosses. Runs include challenges such as clearing enemy waves, and freeing villagers unlocks new town services and features.
Develop your character by unlocking abilities, upgrades, passives, and ancestral powers, then combine them into a build. Find equipment and class-specific Slorm Reaper weapons, level and evolve those weapons, and improve gear through crafting. Further activities include the Slorm Temple, the Great Forge, and hunts in the Netherworld.
In this selected set of reviews, players who enjoy the game often praise experimenting with skills, weapons, and gear to create different builds, along with the steady character progression and loot-driven combat. The pixel-art presentation and playful humor also appeal to some reviewers. These positives are often qualified by complaints that later progression can become a repetitive grind.
The Slormancer is an epic 2D Action-RPG Dungeon Crawling game following a band of outcasts on their fight against hordes of enemies led by The Slormancer! Play as a Mighty Knight, a Fierce Huntress or a Mischievous Mage, master hundreds of abilities and ancestral powers, gear up, fight for the reputation of your kind and prove your value to the realm.
Experience fast-paced gameplay, loads of shiny loot, tons of collectibles, countless hours of content, and carefully crafted pixel art.
You were born with absolutely no skill whatsoever, and yet you find a way to be the last hope of the realm as the enigmatic Slormancer and his incompetent underling try to conquer the world once again. How great. But like your grandfather once told you: "You might not have the talent but you have the will."
Unlock and master more than 200 unique Abilities, Upgrades and Passives for every class. Each active Ability has its own skill tree, allowing you to create unique combinations.
Choose your Legacy and inherit ancient powers among more than 150 Element-related Skills and Passives in the Ancestral Skill Tree.
Master Fire and summon powerful elementals, use Ice to freeze your foes, convoke Thunder and create massive storms, embrace the power of Light or make one with Shadow, it's up to you!
120 unique and game-changing weapons available for every class. Each Slorm Reaper is a unique and priceless weapon that you can loot during your adventure. Once found, wield it to benefit from its powerful effect, level it up, and eventually evolve it to a greater form.
Find and collect Normal, Magic, Rare and Epic items with completely random properties but also shiny Legendary items with more than 200 unique affixes.
Then enhance them with an infinite upgrade system!
Unlock Skills, Upgrades, Ancestral Abilities, Ultimatums and Runes, find Epic Items, and collect Slorm Reapers to create deadly combinations that suit your own play style!
The Slormancer is all about Collection and Progression so you can switch at any point between any skills you’ve previously unlocked, Slorm Reapers and items you’ve previously found, even between the 3 classes of the game! This unique Flexibility allows you to swap between different combinations and play styles in the blink of an eye, whenever you feel like it.
Defeat lots of unique monsters, elites and bosses with more than 40 different affixes through procedurally generated adventures, venture into The Slorm Temple, face The Great Forge and hunt down The Warlords in The Netherworld through 7 different environments. There are always things to do and monsters to kill! And it's always different!
A soundtrack so breathtaking that you will never want to hear something else again.
A story so deep and meaningful that you will tell it to your grandchildren.
A spooky but lovely village full of absurd villagers.
Over 200 achievements to unlock... we lost count ages ago!
Loadouts, Loot Filters, it’s all in there!
Tons of options, screenshakes, damage numbers, we got you covered!
Bindable controls.
Click-to-Move support.
Full Controller support.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 83 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
