Two bosses down, a rescue system still to prove itself in Clearing Blade
An isometric hack-and-slash roguelite about pulling captured allies off the battlefield, still filling in its own numbers two years into Early Access.
By Kai Okonkwo, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
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The stage list for Clearing Blade reads like a fantasy contents page: Forbidden Forest, Desert of Sorrow, The Forgotten City. Three cards, three moods, and between them a jackal-headed thing with a sword and a rock giant wreathed in smoke. Mandeulm's game has been sitting in Early Access on Steam since November 2024, and GaniTani has now brought it to Nintendo Switch, with new stages promised on top of the three already here. That is the shape of the pitch: rescue captured allies scattered across the battlefield, fight alongside them, get chewed up by bosses that the developer says bring re...