Although developer 10tons is most well-known for their library of excellent top-down shooters, my favorite game from them is actually not a top-down shooter at all but rather the unique action game Undead Horde where you play as a Necromancer who can raise the dead and order them to do your bidding. Fighting alongside a huge crew of minions, and replacing any of your lost fighters with the enemies that you’ve killed, was extremely fun and we picked Undead Horde as our Game of the Week when it released. I also really loved the lighthearted but still dark and evil style of the game.

Well today 10tons has announced a new game that, while not directly related to Undead Horde, is definitely in a similar style and spirit. It’s called Skeletal Avenger, and just as that title says you play as the skeletal remains of a warrior who gets reanimated and seeks out revenge on those who have wronged them while they were alive. Instead of delving deeper and deeper into a dungeon as in many roguelites, you’ll actually start down at the bottom where you’re revived from a tomb. You then must fight your way upwards floor by floor so you can reach the surface and take vengeance on the person (or hideous monster) that wronged you in life. The twist here is that if you die before you make it there, the run ends, but ALSO if your target somehow dies before you have a chance to kill them yourself, your run will end as well. If you do make it out to defeat your foe and exac...