It’s time to hop in the Wayback Machine and dial it ALL the way back to March of 2012, when we first checked out an upcoming action RPG called Spiral from developer Pixel Hero Games during that year’s GDC. The game featured really pleasing visuals and intuitive touchscreen-native controls, and a few months after that GDC demo Spiral got its very first trailer which looked quite promising. The actual game wouldn’t release for another year though, in June of 2013, but it made quite a nice first impression on myself and held up well in the longer term with our full review which awarded it a strong 4.5 stars. Probably the biggest problem that anyone had with Spiral back then was that it was only the first episode of a planned multi-part storyline, and everyone wanted to know what was going to happen next.
Back in the real world, what happened next was that Pixel Hero Games struck a deal with Games Workshop to create an action game based on the Warhammer universe. That game was Eisenhorn: Xenos, which Pixel Hero worked on in the years following Spiral’s release and eventually launched in August of 2016. While we enjoyed how Eisenhorn: Xenos treated the Warhammer property and fleshed out a somewhat obscure corner of its universe, gameplay-wise we weren’t huge fans of it. Sadly that seemed to be a general consensus among many who played the game, and while it was hoped that strong sales of Eisenhorn: Xenos would help Pixel Hero be able to finish more...