Slayers, Inc.

Released: Sep 24, 2021
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 07:32 GMT

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08 Oct 2021Developer post
Version 1.0.23 is now out!
Hello Slayers, Version 1.0.23 is out now! This is mostly a bug fix patch based on feedback we've received from the community, although there are still a few QoL and balance-esque things here, as well. - Changelog - Bugfixes: Tailypo is no longer sentient while the game is paused
Hello Slayers,
Version 1.0.23 is out now! This is mostly a bug fix patch based on feedback we've received from the community, although there are still a few QoL and balance-esque things here, as well.
- Changelog -
Bugfixes:

Tailypo is no longer sentient while the game is paused
Should have fixed a crash involving pausing before familiars have been fully spawned in
Hickory's bullets now get bigger when using the Expansion Amulet
Enemies should no longer rarely get stuck in a hurt animation when spawning in
All parts of an enemy now flash when being hit
Wraith will no longer flaunt physics and make noises if your SFX volume is set to 0
Fixed a hole in Obsidian Fortress's level geometry
Mirror, Mirror no longer spawns its shots in the next county over
Other Changes:

The Deranged Slayer can no longer be healed by Regen elites
The grates in Obsidian Fortress are now great grates
Infernux Clavaz's hammers are now easier to see
Use items that spawn now have a chance to reroll while spawning in if they would have been the same as your currently-held Use item
Added Steam Screenshot support
Jumpin' Jacks now bounce off of pits as well as walls
Cleaned up how the results screen renders at certain resolutions
Player flashes white when getting hit now
Soul of Shooting and Rubber Amulet synergy: projectiles now stay slow while bouncing around and continue to shoot at enemies
BFLB-1800 will no longer try to shoot at an enemy if a wall is in the way
Mirror, Mirror has a 10% chance to spawn a backwards shot => Mirror, Mirror now has a 20% chance to spawn a backwards shot
Happy Slaying!
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27 Sep 2021Developer post
Linux Shader Crash Hotfix
Hello Slayers, This is a hotfix for the shader crash that Linux users were experiencing. We also have a potential fix for other Proton/Linux launching issues in a forum post here . If you play on Linux, please let us know if you run into any issues on Twitter, Discord, or our Ste
24 Sep 2021Developer post
Full Release
Hello Slayers, Today is the day! The full version of Slayers, Inc. is available to purchase! We here at Woogedy Games would like to thank everyone that's stuck with us on this wild ride, from the demo to the Playtest to release. This day wouldn't have come without your support an
Hello Slayers,
Today is the day! The full version of Slayers, Inc. is available to purchase!
We here at Woogedy Games would like to thank everyone that's stuck with us on this wild ride, from the demo to the Playtest to release. This day wouldn't have come without your support and encouragement.
Here's some fun numbers relating to the full version:

Number of enemies: 35
Number of items: 89
Number of Artifacts: 24
Number of Artifact combos: 512
Number of Slayers: 8
Number of Areas: 9
Number of commits on Github: 1,527
Number of major internal versions: 23
Number of people responsible for this game: 3
Number of people who will play this game: between three and infinite
Number of happy feelings for our community: Many
Number of points in this trivia list: 12 (inclusive)
As ever, you can reach out to us on Discord or our Twitter if you have any questions, problems, or random things to say to us.
But enough talk. Get to Slaying!
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13 Sep 2021Developer post
Calling All Slayers for Playtesting!
Hello Slayers, Today, we're excited to announce the beginning of our Playtest! If you join the Playtest, you'll have the opportunity to play the full version of Slayers, Inc., from now until Friday, September 17th at 8:00 PM CDT . We want to give people an opportunity to try the
Hello Slayers,
Today, we're excited to announce the beginning of our Playtest!
If you join the Playtest, you'll have the opportunity to play the full version of Slayers, Inc., from now until Friday, September 17th at 8:00 PM CDT. We want to give people an opportunity to try the game out (especially with everything we've added since the demo), as well as catch any of those pesky bugs or crashes that may still be floating around.
Just to make it clear, you will have access to the entire game. Just something to keep in mind if you're worried about any spoilers. It's also worth noting that you aren't getting a free copy of the game for keeps; as mentioned, the Playtest will end on Friday, September 17th at 8:00 PM CDT.
To request access to the Playtest, check out our Store page and you should see a button that allows you to request access. You should get access as soon as you request it.
If you want to partake in the Playtest just for kicks and giggles, that's totally fine. However, we would greatly appreciate it if you also provided us feedback on any and all factors of the game; bugs, glitches, balance, art, music, SFX - the works. We're running this Playtest both as a treat for our community, and as a way to make sure we don't summon the Dreaming Gods or anything when we launch the game. There are two main ways you can report to us:

Join our Discord and tell us you're part of the Playtest. We'll get you into a special channel for feedback and discussion.
Head over to the Community Hub on Steam, where we will have a thread dedicated to receiving feedback.
You can also yell at us on Twitter, if that's your prerogative.
We're incredibly excited to offer this opportunity to our community, and are working tirelessly in the lead-up to release on September 24th.
Happy Slaying!
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27 Aug 2021Developer post
Release Date
Hello, Slayers. We've got some news for you this time. We have been working hard to get you a release date and we are now ready to share it with you. We have plans to release on September 24th for $10 . For demo players curious about what is new with release but haven't kept up w
Hello, Slayers. We've got some news for you this time.
We have been working hard to get you a release date and we are now ready to share it with you. We have plans to release on September 24th for $10.
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For demo players curious about what is new with release but haven't kept up with the monthly updates, we've got you covered.
Major changes from demo version:

3 new playable Slayers
5 new areas, complete with 17 new enemies and bosses
8 new artifacts
25 new items
10 Invocations (Challenge modifiers for your run)
The game is now beatable (big plus)
Unlock system with achievements (local and Steam)
We're excited to finally bring you a completed Slayers, Inc. real soon, and we hope to see you on September 24th.
More plans we would like to share: playtesting! Around 2 weeks before launch, we are going to open the game up to some playtesting. We want a bit of time with you, the players, trying out the new systems. Think of it as a free, private, very, very short early access period. We'll put out a notification when sign-ups are live.
We have also decided to take down the demo soon after release. Maintenance and creation of both the full game and the demo release is a lot of work as it turns out and we feel our effort can be better spent focusing on release right now. We apologize for the short notice but hope you can join us in the full game when it launches.
Final note, a full OST will be made available across the usual platforms like YouTube and Spotify sometime after launch, so keep an eye out for it.
Otherwise, be sure keep an eye on our Twitter and Discord server for teasers, announcements, and more as development continues.
Happy Slaying!
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01 Aug 2021Developer post
August Progress Update
Hello Slayers, It's the end of July already, so you know what that means. In-Progress Enemy sound effects Major Additions All Character Art Complete! Tileset for Area 4B Complete! Tileset for Area 5 Complete! Art for Area 3B Boss Complete! New backgrounds for all Areas Overhauled
Hello Slayers,
It's the end of July already, so you know what that means.
In-Progress

Enemy sound effects
Major Additions

All Character Art Complete!
Tileset for Area 4B Complete!
Tileset for Area 5 Complete!
Art for Area 3B Boss Complete!
New backgrounds for all Areas
Overhauled gamepad support, added rumble support
Added a Statistics section to the Archives
All enemies now have their Hard mode quirks implemented
Minor Additions and Improvements

Victory music completed
Pierce shots overhauled
Tutorial updated
Balance, bug fixes, and boptimizations
Added some extra aesthetic touches to menus
Mini-boss art complete!
As we head into August, we're rapidly approaching our estimated release window. We don't have a set date yet but we will try to give you a decent heads up once we can guarantee we can hit it. Expect to see an announcement in the next few weeks.
As always, be sure keep an eye on our Twitter and Discord server for teasers, announcements, and more as development continues.
Happy Slaying!
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01 Jul 2021Developer post
July Progress Update
Hello Slayers, Welcome to the July Progress Update! First of all: thank you to everyone who visited our store page, downloaded the demo, Wishlisted the full release, and hung out on our Next Fest stream! We've seen a lot of activity, and we would cordially invite you to hang out
Hello Slayers,
Welcome to the July Progress Update! First of all: thank you to everyone who visited our store page, downloaded the demo, Wishlisted the full release, and hung out on our Next Fest stream! We've seen a lot of activity, and we would cordially invite you to hang out as we barrel through the summer here and keep working on Slayers!
On that note, this month has been a huge one for the full release. Not necessarily because of any additions, but due to us going back and polishing up the overall experience. We've taken note of both people's feedback - "enemies too grindy", "too easy to get overwhelmed", "scaling too sharp", etc. - and our own experience and we said "yeah, probably". So this month, we focused a lot on balance and gameplay flow, especially since we can test the difficulty curve across the entire game, as opposed to when the game "ends" at Abzul-Thurak. Now, enemies won't spawn in all at once, the Overlord won't be a jerk and spawn 20 enemies at once, and there's more leeway for taking your time to figure things out, as opposed to being forced into a speedrun to keep up. Loops will also act differently - while the Overlord will still follow similar spawning behaviors, the beginning of each Loop will be less of a smack in the face than before. Finally, we've put the numbers (HP, damage, cost, stonks, etc.) for enemies through our state-of-the-art Babbage Difference Engine and tried to smooth out their base statistics to offer a more natural progression of base difficulty.
We also focused on Steam Achievements, so regardless of difficulty concerns, you can still get at least a small sense of pride and accomplishment.
In-Progress

Art for boss in Area 3A
Art for boss in Area 4B
Art for the final characters
New backgrounds for Areas
Additions to the Archives
Major Additions

Unlock system (!)
Steam achievements (!!)
Title screen changes with unlocks
Area and enemy art is complete for Area 4B
Minor Additions and Improvements

Enemy costs for spawning have been tightened
The Overlord has a bit more nuanced approach to spawning enemies during Loops
Enemy HP and HP scaling have been reduced
Marcus now gains a small amount of Armor when landing his close-range hit
Damage numbers now have a bit more flair
Massive optimization improvements thanks to scrubbing the floors, among other things
Enemies no longer make it look like debris are laying flat on the ground
Abzul-Thurak's pylons now take less time to charge
Divine Arrow now summons a rain of arrows on hit, as opposed to shooting a projectile
Mortar shots now need to be closer to the ground to hit the player
Added advanced fish AI
Control displays now show the last control method you used (keyboard or gamepad)
Rumble support for gamepads
More item lore
Piercing shots have been overhauled to avoid "skipped" shots
Minor healing tweaks
If you're still alive after scaling that wall of text, be sure keep an eye on our Twitter and Discord server for teasers, announcements, and more as development continues.
Happy Slaying!
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12 Jun 2021Developer post
Next Fest Livestream
We'll be livestreaming our demo for the Steam Next Fest for a few hours. Stop in and say hello or just endlessly disparage our ability to play our own game. It'll be a good time! Twitter and Discord server and so forth. Happy slaying!
01 Jun 2021Developer post
June Progress Update
Hello Slayers, May has been a great month for progress on the game. We've been working hard on implementing new content while also testing ideas and trying out changes based on feedback from the demo. The biggest announcement is that, as of now, Slayers, Inc. has its final boss a
Hello Slayers,
May has been a great month for progress on the game. We've been working hard on implementing new content while also testing ideas and trying out changes based on feedback from the demo. The biggest announcement is that, as of now, Slayers, Inc. has its final boss and can be completed (at least by us). No more being confined to the Quint-State Area of Hell in an endless loop of gibs and Chompers.
In-Progress

Item lore
Balance
Unlocks and Achievements
Major Additions

Final Area
Final Boss
Ending sequence
Another Slayer
Five items
Invocations (run modifiers)
Art for Area 5 complete
Minor Additions and Improvements

Optimizations regarding enemy AI
The Overlord now has an upper limit on enemy-spawning resources
Tileset for Area 6 complete
New slayer art complete
Reworked 2 boss themes
E3 is coming up soon and that should be fun. We won't be there, but we may be other places. As always, remember to hype responsibly, and keep an eye on our Twitter and Discord server for teasers, announcements, and more as development continues.
Happy Slaying!
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01 May 2021Developer post
May Progress Update
Hello Slayers. Early in April we pushed an update to the demo with a few major changes including some art asset reworks and a few systems changes. A full list of those changes can be viewed in our previous post. While its fun to continue to keep you up to date on changes made, th
Hello Slayers.
Early in April we pushed an update to the demo with a few major changes including some art asset reworks and a few systems changes. A full list of those changes can be viewed in our previous post. While its fun to continue to keep you up to date on changes made, this marks the end of the updates we will make to the demo unless something drastic happens. We're currently putting our efforts towards nailing out content for the main game. So without further ado, here's how the last month went:
In-Progress

Art for new Area
One new character art
One Area
Two enemies
Major Additions:

Demo update
Two Areas
Six items
Two enemies
A new boss
Minor Additions and Improvements

Area 8 boss music
All bosses now have a pause theme
Reworked a few environment particles
Tileset for Area 5 complete
Art for new items
Item synergy tweaks
Added particles for healing and gaining armor
More performance tweaks
Keep an eye on our Twitter and Discord server for teasers, announcements, and more as development continues.
Happy Slaying!
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08 Apr 2021Developer post
Demo Version 0.14.98 Update!
Hello Slayers, Today we're proud to announce that a major update for the Slayers, Inc. Demo is now available! Feedback for the demo has been great, with tons of builds, insane scores, and interesting bugs being found, touted, and noted, respectively. It's also given us a better f
Hello Slayers,
Today we're proud to announce that a major update for the Slayers, Inc. Demo is now available! Feedback for the demo has been great, with tons of builds, insane scores, and interesting bugs being found, touted, and noted, respectively. It's also given us a better feel for how a large audience who are new to the game perform, and where certain things are seen as over-or-underwhelming.
On top of that, our artist has cooked up some killer new sprites for the Slayers themselves, allowing them to be more expressive and animated than ever. While we could have waited to implement these until the full release, we just couldn't wait to give our players some cool new art. Add that to the mechanics and balance tweaks, and you get a beefy update that touches almost every part of the game in one way or another.
Anyway, enough of the preamble ramble, let's get to the Meatshrooms and potatoes:
< Changelog >
Content:

New sprites for the Slayers
New debris art for the Manor
Changed up the Character Select menu
Added a Random Slayer option in the Character Select menu
Added new "Pause" versions of each boss theme
Balance:
- General -

Waves are a little shorter on average now
The Overlord now gains more credits on Fighter and Hunter and less credits on Slayer per wave (in other words, more enemy spawns per wave on Easy and Normal, slightly less than before on Hard)
Knockback "smoothed out"; beginning knockback is more noticeable, and increasing knockback doesn't instantly turn the game into Chomper pinball
Reduced Essence drop gains for Loops
Tightened the ranges for how far an enemy can spawn from you
Chest price growth is slightly slower
- Slayers -

Each Slayer gains a different fraction of their base DMG on leveling up => All Slayers gain 25% of their base DMG on leveling up
Salem's base DMG increased from 7 to 10
Krono's base DMG increased from 9 to 11
Annie's base HP increased from 35 to 40
Annie's Bullet Charges give 200% bonus DMG per charge, with a max of 1,000% DMG => Annie's Bullet Charges give 400% bonus DMG per charge, with a max of 2,000% DMG
- Items and Artifacts -

Anvil: +300% (+50%/stack) Knockback => +100% (+25%/stack) Knockback
Chitin Shard: Bleed deals 65% DMG => Bleed deals 40% DMG, bleed damage increases by 10% per hit, up to a max of 120% DMG
Poison:

Regular poison (Poison Plant): Poison deals 80% DMG => Poison deals 70% DMG, and now deals an extra 20% DMG for every debuff the enemy has (excluding poison, poison trail, and weak poison)
Weak poison (Liquid Poison): Weak Poison deals an extra 20% DMG for every debuff the enemy has (excluding poison, poison trail, and weak poison)
Tainted Veins: Some hellishly complicated formula for healing => You heal 1 HP for every 100 (-10/stack) Essence you pick up
Spinebark Sap: Regen 0.5% (+0.25%/stack) of max HP per second => Regen 0.25% (+0.125%/stack) of max HP per second
Ancient Stake: 15% chance to heal 5% max HP on kill => 15% chance to heal 2.5% max HP on kill
Jagged Fang: Heal 0.3% (+0.15%/stack) of max HP on hit => Heal 0.6% (+0.1%/stack) max HP on hit
Saw Amulet: Deal 60% DMG 4 times per second => Attacking the enemy applies a stack of Saw. At one stack of Saw, deal 40% DMG 3 times a second. Each additional stack of Saw adds 15% DMG, up to a max of 100% DMG. Saw stacks decay over time.
Electric Bullet: Electrified enemies deal 40% (80% to Shielded enemies) DMG to the 5 closest enemies within 512 of them every 0.5 seconds => Electrified enemies deal 50% (100% to Shielded enemies) DMG to a random enemy within 512 of them every 0.25 seconds
Gorgon Mask: Guardians now need to be dropped to 10% HP rather than 20% HP to be killed instantly while Petrified
Stacked Deck: Random debuffs are applied for 13 seconds => Random debuffs are applied for 7 seconds
- Enemies -

All enemies had their base HP and HP scaling buffed. They also get a flat HP increase per Wave and Loop
Spawn no longer deal any contact damage
Manor, Crystal Valley, and Rebirth Mire enemies had their damage buffed
Royal Chomper's wandering shots used to deal 100% damage, now deal 75% damage
Royal Chomper now spawns less mortar shots per volley
Mortar attacks are now twice as large
Increased move speed for Chompers, Knights, and Spawn
Amalgomoz's summons are now immune to singularities
[Hard] Nolvoth now cancels all of their debuffs when going underground for their spike attack
Increased damage scaling for enemies in Loops
Increased HP scaling for Guardians in Loops
QoL:

Game now pauses if a controller is disconnected
The right analog stick now moves the mouse
Enemy bullets should now appear above all other objects in the environment
Added a dynamic controls list to the Pre-Run Tutorial
Lowered volume for Critical Hits
Removed the developer message on startup
Optimization:

Put in more strict limits for particles, damage numbers, etc.
Fixed some performance issues stemming from item tooltips
Cut down on critters crawling through your RAM when you aren't looking at them
Bugs/Typos/Cleanup:

Fixed a bug where you could not buy things if you had the same amount of Essence as their price
Fixed a bug involving Tailypo's target acquisition
Fixed a bug where Nolvoth could be hit while coming up from its spike attack
Fixed a bug where the game would not show up on the taskbar when started in fullscreen
Fixed a bug where mortar crosshairs would never despawn
Fixed a bug where the colors for the loop lines on the death screen crashed the game after a certain number of loops were cleared
Fixed a bug where some enemy/boss spawn-ins could rarely cause brief freezes or crashes
Fixed a bug where spores growing on poison pools did not slow player down
Fixed a bug where projectiles would "double dip" on Crits on Marked enemies
Fixed a bug where rewards spawned on the same tile as a Slot Machine would be mostly/completely invisible
Fixed a bug where enemies appeared to have the Singularity debuff, but did not spawn a singularity
Fixed a bug where players could still change 'Use' items and pick up other items after death
Fixed a bug where players could be hit for a brief moment when leaving an Area
Fixed a bug where enemies were facing weird directions when not Dazed and moonwalking when Dazed
Cleaned up tooltip descriptions
Cleaned up some Archives entries
So a couple things have been touched up.
This will most likely be the only major update to the Demo as we swing over to fully focusing on the full release. Again, thank you all for playing Slayers, Inc. and giving us your feedback.
With that, we've got Chompers on our trail and a few Fractures in front of us, so it's time to sign off. Keep an eye on our Twitter and Discord for updates, teasers, and other tomfoolery.
Happy Slaying!
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01 Apr 2021Developer post
April Progress Update
Hello Slayers. We are starting off some monthly updates to keep you in the loop on current game progress. We'll be discussing general game improvements and additions so you get a spoiler-free look into the game's state. It's been a busy month with the launch of the demo. We've be
Hello Slayers.
We are starting off some monthly updates to keep you in the loop on current game progress. We'll be discussing general game improvements and additions so you get a spoiler-free look into the game's state.
It's been a busy month with the launch of the demo. We've been looking at feedback and identifying areas that need touching up or larger modifications. Luckily things have been going smoothly and no major issues have been identified so far.
We'll be looking at releasing an update to the demo with some slight changes sooner rather than later. No new content will be added to the demo, but we will be pushing any gameplay or mechanics changes to it. This will allow us to test and gather feedback on new systems as well as bring demo players up to speed with the changes in the release version.
In-Progress

3 Areas
3 enemies
3 Guardians (sensing a theme here?)
A new Slayer
Art for new Slayer
Art for new Items
Art for new Areas
Major Additions:

2 new Slayers
2 Areas have been mapped out
8 enemies
2 Guardians
18 items (including teasers from the demo)
8 Artifacts
Minor Additions and Improvements

Touched up enemy animations and behavior
Option to play as a random slayer
3 new tracks
New art and animations for Slayers
New art for Manor debris
Various optimizations
Between the full release and the demo, we've definitely had a packed month!
Keep an eye on our Twitter and Discord server for teasers, announcements, and more as development continues.
Happy Slaying!
Original post
13 Mar 2021Developer post
Woogedy Games Discord Launched!
Hey, Slayers! We're proud to announce that we now have a Woogedy Games Discord! Come hang out, have your voices heard, chat with cool people, and throw bug reports at us! Join Us HERE! Happy slaying!
11 Mar 2021Developer post
Slayer's Inc Demo is Live
The demo is up! Hello everyone, we're happy to announce the simultaneous launch of the Steam page and the Demo. Both are live and available. The demo contains the first 4 areas, 5 characters, and a large swathe of items, all available for play immediately. We hope that you can ti

Updates & announcements

- Changelog -

Bugfixes:

Other Changes:

Major changes from demo version:

In-Progress

Major Additions

Minor Additions and Improvements

In-Progress

Major Additions

Minor Additions and Improvements

In-Progress

Major Additions

Minor Additions and Improvements

In-Progress

Major Additions:

Minor Additions and Improvements

< Changelog >

Content:

Balance:

- General -

- Slayers -

- Items and Artifacts -

- Enemies -

QoL:

Optimization:

Bugs/Typos/Cleanup:

In-Progress

Major Additions:

Minor Additions and Improvements