'If you're skilful enough, you can chop the head off a monster, kick it midair, and then kill another monster with it': Consider me sold on this indie first-person ARPG

Certain ideas that crop up every so often in games will always grab my attention. One of them is letting players defeat enemies with bits of other enemies. As such, my interest in Heathen—an upcoming indie dungeon crawler—went from 'mildly curious' to 'smashing the wishlist button' when its most recent trailer revealed you can beat your foes by volleying other enemy heads at them.

Developed by solo developer Christoper Yabsley, Heathen takes the frantic monster bashing and loot hoarding of Diablo and reworks it for a first-person perspective. Set in the fantasy town of Saltgrave, it sees your character seeking fortune and glory in the vast subterranean labyrinth beneath the town, encountering an "ancient horror" in the process in what the Steam page describes as a "descent into madness."

The chief addition that the trailer explores is a new enemy dismemberment system added by Yabsley, which he says has "done a lot for making swords and axes feel really good". …