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Slave Zero X
Developer Poppy Works
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. From the Steam store page
280 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
66
Fresh
126 positive · 64 negative
95% range 59–73%
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| Steam reviews | 126 | 64 | 0 |
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
376 of 497 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 280 · most liked firstFanart for Slave Zero X @witnesstheabsurd.bsky.social ‘s character from the game. Out now!! Go get it here 👉 store.steampowered.com/app/1903910/...
unlabelledView post →Reposting some more older work that's fun, some fanart for Slave Zero X I did a while back. Great game and I HIGHLY recommend checking it out!
unlabelledView post →Hello everyone! I'm Aleks, a music producer / composer in the video game industry. I've written music for PHANTOM FURY, DECK OF HAUNTS, and SLAVE ZERO X : EPISODE ENYO If you would like to work with me on your next project, please email me! [email protected]
unlabelledView post →Apparently Slave Zero X Switch runs like butter on Switch 2 so we played the long game and won
unlabelledView post →Slave Zero X ($17.49) - set in the same world as Slave Zero (1999), this 2.5d action game is utterly built for the kind of people who love labbing up combos and perfecting systems. this stylish slasher is made for fans of Guilty Gear and Devil May Cry alike. store.steampowered.com/app/1903910/...
unlabelledView post →Slave Zero X ($18.74) - set in the world of Slave Zero (yes, really, that 1999 game!), this is a 2.5d action game for those who love to master systems for maximum style. you like devil may cry, guilty gear, or just labbing up combos in general, you want this moody trip. www.gog.com/en/game/slav...
unlabelledView post →Slave Zero X ($12.49) - this 2.5d action game - that, yes, is set in the same world as 1999's Slave Zero - is built by and for fighting/character action game fans. if you love hitting maximum style rank in DMC or labbing combos in Guilty Gear, grab this. store.steampowered.com/app/1903910/...
unlabelledView post →With the success of Slave Zero X, will you pursuit more opportunities to work on video games, or are there other mediums you want to expe — I am currently working on an NDA'd game project in an art capacity! I'm happy to work in games as long as they'll have me neospring.org/+r/150997655...
unlabelledView post →Slave Zero X ($17.49) - set in the same world as Slave Zero (1999), this is a 2.5d game built by and for the types who love labbing up combos and mastering systems. a stylish, blood soaked slasher made for Devil May Cry and Guilty Gear types alike. store.steampowered.com/app/1903910/...
unlabelledView post →Man I swear to god, all the people moaning about unfair encounters never finished DMC3 lmao Outstanding game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slave Zero X ($16.24) - a 2.5d character action game that, yes, is set in the same world as Slave Zero (1999). style for miles with a combat system that's made by and for people who love to lab up combos in Guilty Gear or DMC. feels like living an anime OVA. store.steampowered.com/app/1903910/...
unlabelledView post →Slave Zero X ($14.99) - this 2.5d action game that, yes, is set in the same world as the 1999 title Slave Zero, is built by and for fighting/character action game fans. if you love labbing up combos in Guilty Gear or getting stylish in DMC, you want this. store.steampowered.com/app/1903910/...
unlabelledView post →Slave Zero X is a game I really want to like, but I just can't bring myself to say that I truly enjoyed my experience. Initially slave zero will capture you with its extremely beautiful art style, wonderful voice acting/dialogue and world building. The sound design make the slashes of your sword have great audio feedback. Which culminates into my favourite thing from this game, Hercules, the first boss. His visual design, motivations, voice acting, the way he is built up is all wonderfully…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slave Zero X was the first game I ever wrote for in a lead role. I cannot express how much this single aside in the middle of this review meant to me. I hope everyone enjoys the game when it releases this week <3 gameluster.com/slave-zero-x...
unlabelledView post →About as beautiful as a kusoge can get, but a kusoge nonetheless. Not the first time a game has deliberately broken itself in order to seem more "retro," and it probably won't be the last. This one stings a bit though, since the beautiful artwork and characters get completely swamped in the drudgery of moment to moment gameplay. No business in something that's allegedly based on fighting games to have 0 defensive options whatsoever, especially when you can't manually save. You're telling me…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's beautiful, but ultimately unrewarding. Finishing out later sections feels more like a game of chance than of skill. Smaller groups of enemies and Lieutenant fights are fantastic, frantic and fluid which makes the last few sections of the game so bitterly disappointing. "Well I can't block both a super ability and bullets from both sides, guess I only juggled them 5 times instead of 6 - looks like I'll be restarting this section again" and "Great another super armor hammer guy is here and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The graphics? Cool The gameplay? Nice The art style? Sick as hell Now why do I not recommend this game? Simple: STUN-LOCK SECTIONS WHERE YOU GET GANKED BY EVERY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ENEMY IN THE SCREEN AND YOU CAN JUST WATCH
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →phenomenal game with heavy flaws, not even close to being for everyone. to start with the bad; defensively you're quite weak. air teching gives you no i-frames, making you often tech into an incoming attack with little way to consistently defend yourself outside of attempting a parry or bursting. blue bursting is actively disincentivized as well, as it locks you out of your essential fatal sync loops. pair that with every late game fight being ornstein & smough if there were 58 ornsteins, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beautiful art, voice acting, and combat. A unique experience. Please make more games like this.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Guilty may gaiden: third strike
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slave Zero X is a game that speaks to me. It’s a masterpiece. It has almost everything that I can ask for from a game. I never thought that someday, someone would purchase a dormant IP and turn it into something extraordinary. I’m really glad how Slave Zero X turned out and introduced me to the amazing series that I’ve been missing out on. It acts as a prequel to the original Slave Zero, which came out back in 1999, and it expands and enhances the lore and the universe in an amazing way.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🙋♂️ I'm Wolfgang, a game developer since 2007. I've worked on 32+ games, such as; -- Slave Zero X + Episode Enyo Hime's Quest Devil Engine Melon Journey 2 + GB Mon-yu Undernauts CrisTales VA-11 HALL-A Super Animal Royale Halloween Forever Rock of Ages III Corpse Party Kemono Heroes SilverQuest
unlabelledView post →Slave Zero X is available now on your favorite modern game playing device. Thanks to everyone who waited patiently. store.steampowered.com/app/1903910/...
unlabelledView post →What a shame, such an amazing game that just flooded with moronic decisions. General gameplay is amazing, you can take in your combo an entire screen of enemies and just dribble them around. Each move has its purpose, and power level of character is extremely high (if you know what you doing). Game has nice visuals. But the longer game goes, the worse it becomes. To negate an absurd power level of player, game just floods the screen with enemies. It's good when you fight weaker enemies, but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It wants to be a cross between a beat 'em up and a fighting game but doesn't understand the fundamentals of either. It's filled with a lot of frustrating design decisions and misinformation. None of which makes the game feel challenging. More like untested and clunky. The in-game tooltip lying about how to do EX attacks being a prime example. You don't even get meter for parrying and can be hit out of the start-up on your burst. Which is the exact opposite of how those mechanics are supposed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slave Zero X, firstly, the game just looks cool. Secondly, the game feels cool as hell. it's just a supremely cool game. store.steampowered.com/app/1903910/...
unlabelledView post →Okay. I see everyone doing this. Looking for friends, especially artists! >Pokémon >Shantae >Kamen Rider >Snoot Game >No More Heroes >Zenless Zone Zero >Resident Evil >Silent Hill >Fire Emblem >Devil May Cry >Slave Zero X(why not) >OC Drawing >Alien girl >Monster Girl >Touhou Project
unlabelledView post →Great artstyle, cool premise, but there are some bugs and weird design choices that make this game so frustrating to play that I genuinely might be done. In a game so difficult and reliant on precision, who decided it be a good idea to have you NOT SEE during large sections of the game should really rethink what constitutes fun. Also I don't know if this is an audio bug or how it's meant to be (and if so... why?), but the ambience and soundtrack are often drowned out by the noise the drone…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you enjoy beeing juggled in the air without iframes/recovery time from 100% health to 0 health by swarms of enemies that literally fill the whole screen and simultaniously fight the same boss over and over and over again than this is for you. Ah and have i forgot that parries actually are punishing instead of rewarding because they interrupt your attack and you will get hit by something else for sure...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#PromoSky I enjoy Devil May Cry Redline Slave Zero X Blood Blockade Battlefront Chainsaw Man Kamen Rider Got my own OCs for a dream game/ possible webcomic that can be shown first, and a YouTube channel! Follow and sub^^ Follow my artist friend too @gogogomorrah.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →Slave Zero X is a very unique indie game. It tries to do one specific thing, that is, combine the mechanics of a fighting game and place it within an action game setting, and does it fairly well. However it also fails in many aspects. Starting with the negatives, the game doesnt really explain enough to you, the loading screen tips refer to move names, yet there is no move list found in the game. So when the game says that the "Takomaki DDT can be used to scoop grounded enemies", that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I LOVE the game, but I cannot progress due to a game breaking bug that is quoted as follows : "Could not save settings (this extends to progress" Please Check you have some free disk space. >50mb" all of my drives are in the terrabyte range. Its seemingly not common, but it is ruining my experience. if anyone could help I'd appreciate it. cause this is a SICK game, but I can't play it or rather, I'm incapable of experiencing it in it's entirety
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to state my purpose here up front: I want to praise Slave Zero X because I think it’s the kind of game I’d like to see more of made. It’s a genuinely impressive package, but I also think there are a lot of glaring issues with the title that will make many people hate it. So let’s do a compliment sandwich and do some constructive criticism. Slave Zero X is, if nothing else, oozing with style. The art is full with biopunk monstrosities and sexy twinks. The music is brimming with cyberpunk…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to like this game so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad. It's got almost everything. It's got good voice acting, amazing visuals, fun combat, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is this game too hard. Your burst does not refill fast enough to counteract the amount of juggling enemies will do to you. Parries are a neat way to force players to learn enemy attacks, but enemy attacks will come out so fast that it feels impossible to react to. Some attacks will STILL hit you if you parry them too, as they'll have something like an…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: light light forward down heavy down forward up
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you’ve been served an amazing Wagyu Steak, on a paper plate with plastic knife/fork, you can’t enjoy it, no matter how hard you try. This is basically this game, an amazing hack/slash was dragged down by the poor design choices in nearly everything else. It is not difficult, it is frustrating to play. So, If you like fighting games with aerial combos such as Blazblue/Guilty Gear you're gonna enjoy this for a while. It has an amazing fighting/combo mechanics, but everything else falls…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slave Zero X is difficult, and fun. It is a brawler type of game. Also I am bad at fighting games, and I failed to buy any upgrades until after defeating Thorman because I am very very stupid.
unlabelledView post →Don't listen to the negative reviews: Is the game hard? Definitely yes, but is it unfair? Definitely not! Your character is EXTREMELY overpowered: While your counterattack is hard to time, it has NO COOLDOWN—so you can spam it without any drawbacks. The same goes for the dash. So far, I haven’t had to struggle through any levels, nor have I had to farm money for upgrades—and I don’t even play fighting games regularly. Other than that, the game has a charming style, the story is good (very…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One hell of a side scrolling beat em up, but plays like a single player anime fighter. Tons of people say this game is too difficult, but you really have to know how to combo well and crowd control if you want to beat it all the way through. Fatal Sync into Gold Burst into Fatal Sync gameplay loop makes you cut through mobs like butter! Really good design, art direction, and voice acting. Check it out!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game really Zero'd my X until I Slaved.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Difficult as all hell, but man, this game is an underrated gem! Total ripper! A+
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tonight at 8 EST! Hime-Sama checks out the sidescrolling action game prequel-sequel to a 20+ year old mecha third person shooter, Slave Zero X! Yes, we know it's weird. But apparently it is also yaoi, which means it's important. twitch.tv/daihime_sama -RRA Social Media Team #vtuber #envtuber
unlabelledView post →DIFFICULTY SLIDER PLEASE I AM 40 MY HANDS HURT BAD NOW
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →well the game was super fun and great until I beat Hercules and the next mission loading screen crashes my game this is the error message ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ ERROR in action number 1 of Other Event: User Defined 2 for object obj_hud: index out of bounds request 0 maximum size is 0############################################################################################…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fuck it, with a clean slate comes another chance to post stupid things I've cobbled together over the past year or so, starting from these! Have you ever played Slave Zero X? It's a cool game. @witnesstheabsurd.bsky.social made art for it. You should check it out.
unlabelledView post →Overall I really like the game, the aesthetic is cool and the combat can be really fun. My only major gripe is that some of the combat encounters are straight up just not fun; when you have a large group of enemies combined with one or two that have stagger that you have to work through before they actually get stunned by hits it isn't fun, it's frustrating. There's simply too much stuff happening on screen during these fights for a person to be able to reliably attack or use their defensive…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun foundation and concept, but absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ abysmal execution at certain points. Fights drag on and feature constant stunlocking. There's no movelist so you have to lab for like 30 minutes to even know what the ♥♥♥♥ you can do. So-so story. I intend to finish the game, but only because I gave it the benefit of the doubt and chose not to refund it when I had the chance.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Never played beat'em up, don't like them, don't care about them. Got the game purely based on aesthetics. The way it looks and the way it sounds, I wanted to play it no matter what the genre was. Hell, prior to release I would put some of it's trailers on the loop and listen to them in the background :D Once I got it, played through 90% of the game spamming single move, then got filtered by 2 enemies that would just stunlock me and be immune to sun themselves. Checked forums, learned special…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A rare handmade-but-not-makeshift game that is perfect in almost every way, but has one (1) huge glaring flaw. Depending on how deeply committed you grow, said flaw may prove completely irrelevant or debilitating. Slave Zero X is the epitome of 80s anime: fast, angry, warlike, anti-American and gay.(всё вышеперечисленное признано экстремизмом на территории Российской Федерации) The character models and especially the 2.5D environments built in a Quake level editor are perfect. The whimsical…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game does for guilty gear’s beat-’em-up spin-offs what ultrakill did for quake: it makes everything gorier and even more over the top, and sprinkles in some devil may cry (and also makes it gay).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Doesn't play like Strider 2 as much as it feels like a juggle fest fighting game with annoyingly floaty physics. ProZD's name came up in the opening credits and my girlfriend boo'd out loud, I ignored it until I got to the shopkeeper who was verbatim just the meme shopkeeper from the Zelda CD-I game. I immediately quit and got a refund. Pick a f*cking tone.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had huge potential in the right hands but instead was given to lazy and weird devs. Pros There are so many ways to build and extend your combos and juggles. Cons Gameplay isnt balanced if you dont have a burst to break out of a combo loop, youll die to air juggles or drone spam. The combat is built around combos but enemies often swarm from all sides and can hit you out of your combo especially during air juggles. Because of how 2.5D works your combo can drop if the enemy shifts a bit to the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Arcade stick goes click clack bop
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disappointed I spent money on this game. First off, the presentation is excellent. The combat is really easy to pick up(at first), it's fast and brutal. Typically I like games like this, but there are some issues that became more glaring as the game went on, to the point where I'm doubting if I'll even continue. Issue #1: Spending meter. In this game, performing attacks will generate meter that you can allegedly use to perform Ex attacks, which are enhanced versions of heavy attacks. From…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a great looking game. It's a shame this tended towards polarization. I initially fell off of it right after release, but was happy enough to support it for the type of relatively niche thing that it is. I've grown quite fond of Slave Zero X since then, and love to replay it-- its "bloody palace" mode too. You either body or get bodied.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slave Zero X: Episode Enyo (2024) All Secrets - Nightmare Mode This is one hell of a way to promote your game, even if it is a 2D run & slash thing and not an FPS. No matter, the level design, the music, the decorations. Everything fits perfectly with the Quake engine. This being free is criminal.
unlabelledView post →Got this game super excited due to the graphics style and description... TLDR: They tried, but the game has an identity crisis and honestly is not very good. This was not playtested, straight up. The mechanics work in such a way that you are truly a glass cannon, however, I don't think that design was intentional. You either walk in, group the enemies up and land a massive combo due to how gold burst + fatal sync works (as the devs call it, The Golden Circle), or you get hit once and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even as a fan of most of everything this game is inspired by, I got filtered. The brutal difficulty curve that hits as early as the third or fourth stage was frustrating enough that it drained any enjoyment I got from the parts of the game that I did like. This is a game that actively delights in trying to gut you and string you up from the rooftops by your entrails. It does not ease you into anything, offers very little to help you, and demands a lot from you. If that sounds good to you,…
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