Battle Axe is an arcade top-down hack & slash featuring high-quality visuals created by veteran pixel artist Henk Nieborg, true-to-form game mechanics, and music from the legendary VGM composer Manami Matsumae – retro gamers rejoice! For as long as you and your people can remember, your homeland of Mercia has been held in the tyrannical clutches of the malevolent sorceress, Etheldred. Some months ago, a party of mercenaries was dispatched to attempt to put a stop to Etheldred and her evil cohorts, but regrettably, none of them have ever returned…Will you meet the same unfortunate fate as their honorable predecessors, or will you return victorious and triumphant? That is all down to you! Along with their own distinct traits, your selected hero not only has fierce close-range melee attacks but also long-range projectiles to vanquish enemies from a distance. Each hero can move and attack in eight different directions and use various items. Features Single-player or Local Co-op. Arcade, Infinite, and New Game+ modes. Superlative pixel art by games industry veteran Henk Nieborg. Heroic soundtrack by the legendary VGM composer Manami Matsumae. An epic adventure for pixel art fanatics, with beautifully designed characters and environments in every frame!