Slitterhead
RARE TALENTS
To recruit rarities you first have to find them within designated missions. Generally you encounter them face-to-face with a slitterhead, about to meet their maker, only to turn the tables once you possess them. The range of characters you eventually convert is a strength – from nihilistic sex worker Anita to homeless ex-boxer Edo and geeky schoolboy Doni, they’re far from heroic archetypes, as you come to understand in short conversations between missions. In battle, each wields a blood weapon and abilities based on their personalities, with some better suited to all-out offence and others to healing or attracting more people to the scene. After all, as much as rarities are your champions, it pays to keep changing bodies.
Developer/publisher
Bokeh Game Studio
Format
PC, PS4, PS5 (tested), Xbox Series
Release
Out now
Blood is often a key ingredient in horror, but rarely is it as intrinsic to proceedings as in Slitterhead.
A great deal of it is spilled by the game’s monsters, of course, but it also pulses through everything you do.
‘You’ in this case are a spirit, a ball of light that jumps into the minds of unsuspecting people, assuming control. Once inside, you manifest weapons from their hardened blood, along with special attacks that drain their supply. When running low, you can siphon up whatever’s been spilled on the ground to heal.