The Axis Unseen is a game about exploring an alternate world as a hunter, fighting various mythical creatures. It claims to be "heavy metal horror survival", mostly boasting almost excessive skeleton/skull imagery across the entire playthrough and soundtrack that uses electric guitar in it, that's about it. Survival is purely about fighting the monsters, and calling it horror is completely excessive, unless you get scared of the uncanny designs creatures have.
Soundtrack does good enough job setting the mood of the game, but very specific graphical design of the game make a lot of things look like they're made out of clay, while extremely unbalanced lightning either flashbangs you with runes on your bow or completely blots out the sun, leaving you in pitch darkness in the middle of the day.

That, however, is not the core point of the game. It's more of an experience than a proper game. You have to get into the exploration and discovering the land you got tossed into. You have to get into the slower paced "hunt or be hunted", whether it's being careful and sniping from afar, or going into close-range skirmish and "quick scoping" monster weakspots. If you go into the game with expectation of high-octane action and flashy combat, you're most likely going to grow bored of it not even halfway through (and the world is LARGE, consisting of 6 separate zones, each with it's own collectibles to find and unique monsters to hunt), and so it's not going to appeal to a lot of people. Think of the game like the very first The Legend of Zelda, where you just get tossed into it with no explanation, expected to find the sense of it yourself, except take out the dungeons, leaving only blind exploring and secret hunting in the overworld.

I actually enjoyed discovering the new zones and seeing what the next big upgrade was gonna be, which was enough to drive me forward, but I certainly was asking myself halfway through the first zone whether I'm actually gonna see it through all the way. And getting what I assume is the basic ending, I can certainly say it's a very niche game.

Been in it for about 3 hours, love the environment, gameplay and monsters. Loving the environmental story telling as well.
The fact that this was made by only one guy is an absolutely stunning achievement