Like the brains of Kowlong's teeming masses, Slitterhead's complex mythology is a lot to wrap one's jaws around. You play as a disembodied spirit in Bokeh Game Studio's maiden voyage, a being from Japanese mythology known as a Hyoki, whose ability to possess and control everyday humans bestows each host with supernatural powers. Using them to fight back against the Slitterhead invasion is a necessary evil, one the Hyoki initially fails to see as such. After all, it views humans as plentiful and thereby expendable in the densely-populated city of Kowlong. But when it fuses with Julee, its first companion of many, everything changes. She affectionately names it Night Owl, one of two Hyoki from the original folklore. As soon she does, a curious thing starts blossoming in this non corporeal being: empathy.
Release date: November 8, 2024
Platform(s): PS5, PS4 Xbox Series X, PC
Developer: In-house
Publisher: Bokeh Game Studio
