- Publisher: Bokeh Game Studio
- Release Date: Nov 8, 2024
- Also On: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X
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Dec 2, 2024The stealth in general is quite shallow and it could be greatly improved if the people you possessed panicked and caused a scene allowing you to sneak past guards in a new body. As it stands it's just tedious and dull. That said, gripes aside there is more than enough in Slitterhead to warrant a recommendation, even at a (frankly ridiculous) price of $50.
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Nov 8, 2024Slitterhead is innovative, fresh, and different. This action-packed brawler with a unique possession mechanic occasionally shows some rough edges, but its cyclical narrative promises to earn its place as a future cult classic in gaming.
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Nov 4, 2024Slitterhead can be a slow-burn to begin with, but once its combat clicks, this is an action horror game like few others.
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Nov 4, 2024Slitterhead is an incredibly inventive game with a brilliant, novel idea at its core. It’s the exact kind of release we should be uplifting, a new IP that pushes graphics and trends aside to try something fresh.
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Nov 4, 2024Slitterhead relies on the mechanic of possessing and controlling human bodies, which is not new, but is used to great effect in the game. Once you get past the clunky start and get into it, Slitterhead manages to deliver an impressive experience. Although it would be more spectacular if more things were clearer and better handled.
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Jan 2, 2025Slitterhead has a certain appeal, but also a lot of imperfections. Even so, if you are looking a video game unique with the soul of old survival games, maybe enjoy it.
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Nov 4, 2024Slitterhead is a very peculiar game, one that throws a dozen or so different ideas at the wall, and, to the game’s credit, most of them manage to stick over time. With the exception of some occasionally finicky platforming, an inherently chaotic combat system, and near-constant drip feed of tutorials introducing new mechanics as the game progresses, the game is a compelling hodgepodge of ideas that feels like the survival horror equivalent of the multi-perspective gameplay of Watch Dogs: Legion. Its eccentricities may be a turn-off for some players, but on a whole, Slitterhead is an entertaining and experimental experience that only gets better as it goes on.
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Nov 4, 2024Besides slitterheads, the biggest enemy was really Bokeh Studios' distrust in you, the player. You're forever told how to go about each challenge because the world isn't malleable enough to entertain your investigative spirit. That's with all the emptiness and the irritants on top, which come together to form a deeply unlikeable game. That's unfortunate, because I do think it has some genuinely impressive ideas and delivers, on occasion, some brief bursts of interesting combat and the occasional nice wander. They're just too few and far between for me to recommend it.