Absolum (2025) is the definitive answer to the question of how to make the side-scrolling brawler matter in the modern age. Developed by the "dream team" of Guard Crush Games and Supamonks, and published by the preservationists-turned-pioneers at Dotemu, it arrived on October 9, 2025. It is the spiritual and mechanical evolution of everything they learned with Streets of Rage 4, but twisted into a fantasy epic that breathes new life into the bones of the genre.