Slave Zero X on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Slave Zero X is a stylish 2.5D character action game set in the biopunk world of Slave Zero (1999). Run & Slash your way through a dystopian future in this character action game which will resonate with fans of Devil May Cry, Strider, and Guilty Gear.

Slave Zero X is a spectacle fighter, hack and slash and beat 'em up game developed by Poppy Works and published by Ziggurat.
Released on February 21st 2024 is available only on Windows in 14 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Traditional Chinese and Hindi.

It has received 353 reviews of which 279 were positive and 74 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for 19.54€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Slave Zero X into these genres:

Spectacle fighter Hack and Slash Beat 'em up Cyberpunk 2D Platformer Horror Ninja Mechs Dystopian Post-apocalyptic Alternate History Dark 2.5D Pixel Graphics Action Futuristic Retro Combat Singleplayer Arcade

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System requirements

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Windows

OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel i3 2100 / AMD FX 6300
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2 GB) / AMD R7 260X (2 GB)
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 6 GB available space

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Nov. 2024

They really just decided to make a 2D Devil May Cry... The game is pretty hard but it's fun, and there is a lot of skill expression with the combo system. Enemies will ToD you sometimes, but you can do the same so it's fair.

Sept. 2024

I have mixed feelings towards this game but i think its charm just barely outweighs its faults. The story, music and graphics are all great and made me want to dive deeper into this universe, and i was fairly invested by the end of it, The story of a human's fusion with a weird sentient armor thirsty for blood was entertaining and even quite touching at times, and the wonderfully rendered 3-D backgrounds and dopamine-inducing animations make for a lot of memorable moments, The combat on the other end is voluntarily made obtuse and can quickly turn into a mess where you either juggle every enemy on screen or get juggled yourself until your health bottoms out, It's fun when it works, but expect cheap deaths and plenty of restarts with some frustrating checkpoint placements to boot. It's entertaining, clunky and very unique.

Aug. 2024

this game is so so close to being a masterpiece. the offensive side of the combat is fantastic. Fun and satisfying with room to just make it up and still get rewarded with dopamine. There really should be an option to bind EX moves to a button in my opinion. I struggle to do them when i want to and accidentally do them all the time from just inputting quickly. Visuals I have no notes. Looks peak. Sound is similarly no notes. Its not the music i would choose for a game like this but I cant say whats there is bad. Voice acting is also phenomenal. The issue is there are several points this game is lacking in, and they are lacking HARD. There's an overall sense of jank to a lot of things that really could use polishing, but you would hope this polish should be able to be fixed via a patch. Some crashes, weirdness in AI, and some other The game is hard as balls, but most of that comes from the lack of defensive tools. You have a dodge with limited Invul frames, and a parry which you need to input using the stick. The dodge is unreliable and doesn't really help when you are sandwiched, and the parry is way too risky to be used in those same situations. This leads to frequent moments of getting knocked down one time and just being put into a situation that feels unfair and leads to you getting hit a ton My hope to fix this would be to please for the love of god, add a block button. Make it so you can guard attacks with chip damage as a low risk option to deal with the absolute bombardment the game throws at you. It could also act as a potential input to parrying which would make it easier to do than needing to use the stick to parry. I get you wanna be third strike, but this game does not work with a 3s style parry. Another thing that i genuinely do not understand, why do boss-like enemies not have collision? I can understand why groups of enemies don't, but the bosses that require you to dodge from side to side and parry very precisely do not work as well when you are able to side swap by just doing a standing combo or a heavy move. Its a minor annoyance, but they do add up. Also please add a DP cuz i think it would be funny I wanna say this game is something special, but as of now it feels like a cool idea that someone else could do way better. There is so much potential in this concept, world, and system, but I can't say its fully there. Please don't abandon this game.

Aug. 2024

This game is difficult but very fun. Dont just give up after you die, chain combos. use your EX sparingly, time your supers for heals. insanely fun. dope presentation. only thing that would make it better is seeing through walls that cover the screen sometimes. try it out

July 2024

Mechanically, it's a sidescrolling beat'em-up with extra fighting game flair, including combos, cancels and evens parries. Thematically, it's a 90's OVA with beautiful sprites and a great soundtrack. Surprisingly robust yet unobtrusive narrative too. Personally, I love it. Yeah, it has flaws if you were to, say, dissect it with your FGC PhD but that would be missing the point pretty hard. e: If you're struggling - you can use burst to fill your meter and then use Fatal Sinc to build burst (and heal) back, pretty much having infinite meter. Just make sure to burst while you're attacking (as opposed to when you're getting hit) and that you're completely neutral when using FC.

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