Ichorous is the bloody platformer I've been waiting for ever since I finished Blasphemous 2

I don't often play platformers, but when I do you can bet that it'll be a bloody hack and slash with tons of gore and creepy monsters. It's a high I've been chasing ever since finishing Blasphemous 2, and while I've not managed to find something that can rival the same theistic terror it offers, the new demo for Ichorous delivers on the gore.

The premise of Ichorous is simple: you play as The Warlock, an agile fellow who is bound to the god of blood by contract to kill monsters and collect their bloody ichor. The map itself is a puzzle with an unknown layout and number of rooms that you can only piece together by searching through them, killing as many foes as possible while progressing through the map.

The demo only has a couple of levels so far, the Thrall Grave being the first and the Squalor being the second. …