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Blade of the Netherworld
Blade of the Netherworld is a fast-paced 2D Roguelite platformer. Don divine masks as a Yin-Yang Enforcer, slashing through the underworld to defeat gods, demons, and spirits. Combine a variety of items, master combat skills, and create limitless, high-speed carnage with a free-form action system.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“For the price, its very good. The combat has the snappiness of Hollow Knight with the constant dashing and slashes. The sprite work is actually really good if you pay attention, especially the regular sword combo The bosses arent super hard except for maybe 1 or 2 of them, which…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“I hit a wooden fish 107 times with a wooden ladle to receive 107 Merit in a meditation room. I do not know what Merit is or does, as the game is *technically* but too literally and strangely translated. But it was, admittedly, meditative and relaxing to hear that “clonk” 107…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“Hard game to even beat the first boss, and after you die progress starts from 0, the stages are repetitive and ntg new after awhile gets boring. no for me”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
"Blade of the Netherworld" V1.0 version is now officially launched!
Dear Netherworld rangers, We are excited to announce that the official version V1.0 of Blade of the Netherworld is now officially launched! In this action game full of adventure and combat, players wi
2024.4.21
Fixed a bug where sacrificing for upgrades would freeze the character and prevent further actions. Fixed encoding issues caused by other languages. Added the ability to directly enter combat from the
2024.4.7
Fixed abnormal blessing bonuses. Fixed a bug where the cooldown of the first skill cast was reduced by 50%. Optimized copper coin drops: reduced the quantity dropped per instance to reduce lag, while
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | Action · Action Roguelike · Hack and Slash · 2D · Indie · Pixel Graphics · 2D Platformer · Dark · Comedy · Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Action-Adventure (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Full controller support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 42 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7+ Processor: Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 2 GB available space