Sweet, thanks for the recs, I’ll check em both out, starting with the original. I vaguely recall seeing someone call Blitzkrieg a semi-spiritual successor and if that’s the case I’m all in.

It’s Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion. It’s a Romero game from the Softdisk days so there’s plenty of gore. There’s also unique death portraits for the player based on which monster kills you and those are great as well.

I love the game but if you’re a new player just know that it’s very unforgiving. Try to kill enemies from as far away as you can and get used to prefiring the green slimes.

https://www.gog.com/game/dangerous_dave_pack