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Super House of Dead Ninjas

A game by Megadev and Adult Swim Games for PC, originally released in 2013.
Super House of Dead Ninjas is a high speed action game that pits the Crimson Ninja against a 350 story tower packed to the walls with enemies, spikes, and treasure. Action is fast and furious from the top of the tower to the bottom as the heroine slices her way through enemies, tosses shuriken to pick off foes from a distance, uses bombs to blast away blocks and enemies (and herself, if she’s not careful), and unleashes ninja magic to bring the pain to everyone around her.


The game offers a quick tutorial area to get the player accustomed to the controls, showing you how to jump, double jump, and crouch. You can also run while crouched, as well as perform wall jumps and wall slides, and you can perform a high jump by ducking for a few seconds and then jumping. There are a couple easy enemies in this area and a place to try out each of your ninja skills. But after you drop down into the next level of the tower, a 30 second clock starts counting down. 30 seconds to get through a 350 story tower may seem like madness (and it is, actually), but there are pickups along the way that restore the meter back to 30 seconds.