A Slight Chance of Sawblades is a fun high-score chaser with a demo out now

For readers who like their smaller, faster more casual high-score chasers you'll want to check out A Slight Chance of Sawblades. Chinykian Games just put up a demo you can try out which has a Linux version available.

It's raining sawblades in this one. In a tiny little box arena you have to run, dodge and double-jump over them all to last as long as possible, while also gathering tickets to unlock more. The demo offers 1 out of the 3 currently planned modes, and a small slice of the characters, sawblades and backgrounds you can unlock.

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Full game highlights:

Game Modes

• Classic Mode - Jump over sawblades to score points. Do it fast to regain time and delay the inevitable Sudden Death!
• Phantom Mode - The player character is invisible in this mode! Rely on your superior spatial reasoning skills to survive in this unforgiving mode!
• Barrage Mode - Once spawned, every sawblade stays in the room forever. This mode is the very definition of the word "Overwhelming"!

Features

• Skill-based score-chasing action.
• High-speed arcade gameplay with time pressure.
• Juicy 8-bit style music.
• Unlockable characters.
• Unlockable game modes.

A small and sweet indie game worth blasting through on your coffee-breaks. There's no date set for the full version yet but do give the demo a try and see how high you can make it. I'm useless at it, I've played for a lot longer than expected, determined to get higher and better at it but I'm just getting sliced to pieces.