Press kit

Everything you need to write about, stream or list Samurai Vengeance. Questions go to contact@samuraivengeance.com.

Fact sheet

Game	Samurai Vengeance
Developer	Billfiti Studios (Maciah Thomas), Southern California
Status	Out now
Platforms	Any modern web browser, on desktop and mobile. No download or install.
Price	Free to play, with optional purchases
Genre	Action platformer, hack and slash
Players	Single player
Website	samuraivengeance.com
Social	TikTok and Instagram, @billfiti

Short description

A free samurai action platformer that runs in your browser. Slash through 1000 stages, parry arrows out of the air and take on ten bosses, on your phone or your computer, with nothing to install.

Longer description

Samurai Vengeance is a side-on action platformer about one samurai fighting through 1000 stages of moonlit rooftops and floating platforms. The combat is built around timing. A three-hit combo builds a damage multiplier, a well-timed parry cancels an attack and turns your next swing into a double-damage finisher, and a dash lets you slip straight through danger. Every tenth stage is a boss that changes pace when it drops below half health.

It runs in any modern browser, on phones and computers, with touch or keyboard controls. There's no download and no account needed to play. Progress saves on the device, and signing in syncs it across devices.

Features

1000 stages, with a boss every tenth stage.
Ten named bosses that enter a faster, more aggressive Phase II at half health.
A three-hit sword combo, a dash you can't be hurt during, and a parry that sets up a double-damage counter.
A Ki bar that fills as you land hits and unleashes a strike on everything on screen.
Four enemy types, including shield-bearers you have to get behind and tengu that dive from above.
Stage modifiers that change one rule at a time, like Glass Blade (double damage taken, double coins).
A daily boss and daily challenges.
An interactive tutorial for first-time players.
An original soundtrack generated live in the browser, so there's nothing extra to download.
Keyboard or touch controls, in portrait or landscape.

How it's made

The whole game is a single web page of plain JavaScript, about 600 KB, drawn on an HTML canvas with no game engine. The soundtrack isn't a set of audio files: the browser generates it live in a Japanese five-note scale. The dev notes cover some of the problems along the way, like the bug that made the game run at double speed on 120Hz phones.

Screenshots

All 1280×720. Tap one to open the full image.

Stage 23: the samurai fights shield-bearers, archers and a tengu across floating platforms — Stage 23. A shield-bearer blocks a frontal hit.

A parry deflects an arrow, setting up a Punish counter — A parry, with the Punish counter ready.

The Blood Shogun boss in Phase II, firing a spread of shots in the rain — Stage 30: the Blood Shogun in Phase II.

The Samurai Vengeance main menu — The main menu.

Streaming and videos

Yes, you can stream Samurai Vengeance and post videos of it, and you're welcome to monetize them. You don't need to ask first. A link to samuraivengeance.com in the description is appreciated, and I'd love to see what you make, so send it over.

Key art

Title art (JPG), used for link previews and listings.

Contact

Email contact@samuraivengeance.com, or see the contact page.

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