


It's been accurately described by critics as a combination of Dark Souls and Castlevania. Salt and Sanctuary is an indie RPG-platformer developed by a one-man studio. The unpleasantly-named Bile Flasks take the role of healing items, and The Penitent One will respawn at the last checkpoint if his health is fully depleted. As a result, players must learn the attack patterns of each new horror in order to smite it.

The Penitent One is armed with both sword and spell, and uses them to overcome all manner of monstrosities. Gameplay in Blasphemous follows in the footsteps of the Castlevania series. The game shares a tone with some of the best fantasy-horror out there, including FromSoftware's Bloodborne and Berserk, the influential dark-fantasy manga. Cvstodia twists this imagery into a hellish landscape, hallowed by an unknowable supernatural force called The Miracle. The game's world of Cvstodia borrows heavily from Christian-iconography, with a particular Spanish-Catholic influence. Developed by Spanish studio The Game Kitchen, Blasphemous is a gory and unsettling Metroidvania title. Players take on the role of The Penitent One, a wandering knight and sole survivor of the Brotherhood of the Silent Sorrow.
