Description says it's a hack and slash, but it's clearly not. This needs correction.

Of course it's a hack and slash. You spend the entire game doing little else.

Well OP should explain what genre is the game, I'm curious to read that, and I'm always avid to learn new things. :-)

It is definitely a hack and slash, but what it isn't is a hack and slash rpg. But remember, a game doesn't have to be an overhead view like diablo to be considered a hack and slash game.

It is not a hack and slash, and the reason it's not is certainly not the camera, stop being fallacious.
What defines a hack and slash, first and foremost are the RPG elements, and this game has none. No character creation, no levelling, no character skills, then there is the additional layer that differentiates it from other RPG. Lots of enemies on screen that drop equipment when killed, equipment that has some sort of randomization, usually in the form of modifiers. Without that, it's not a hack and slash.

And NO, you can't say "it's a hack and slash because you hack and slash". That's just plain stupid. In that case StartFox is a First person shooter because there is a cockpit view, Half Life 2 is a puzzle game, Boxing on wii is hack and slash while you're at it and Red Alert is a point and click...
BorderLands is a hack and slash, Devil may cry is a beat them up. You can tie plenty of genres to Rune, action for sure, platformer eventually, even beat them up too some extent, but certainly not hack and slash.

It's not hard to understand.

A slasher, perhaps?

You're a bit harsh, just because of a genre discussion. You've got a narrow definition of H'n'S, which is basically a certain type of RPGs. That's fine, but this definition isn't carved in stone. Press, developers as well as gamers use the term for other games as well. While Rune can be generally described as third-person action game, there's a strong emphasize on weapon based hand-to-hand combat, actually that's almost the only thing you're doing. There's also basic leveling in connection with enhanced equipment. Just because it's not a full blown skill tree and classic experience point based leveling doesn't mean it isn't hack and slash at all, it just lacks classic RPG elements. When I first read the description about the game, the genre H'n'S in conjunction with first person action game, gave me a very good impression of what to expect and eventually it was exactly like that. After all, that's what genres are there for. By the way, also Wikipedia lists the game under "action, hack and slash", Steam tagged it as hack and slash and the devs themselves describe the game as a "Viking third person hack-and-slash melee game".

Still, you're right, it's rather different from Diablo, Torchlight and suchlike classic H'n'S RPGs.

Oh my god, get over yourself. There is life outside the codex.

Wikipedia being user maintained it's only natural to see misconceptions spread there, sames goes for steam tags, as for the description this is my biggest grip with this issue since it's an obvious ill attempt at drawing in an unrelated user-base. That's false advertising.

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You're mistaking "Hack and Slash" for "Hack and Slash RPG" or "Action RPG". Hack and Slash is an incredibly descriptive and accurate term for this game. Nothing about the "Hack and Slash" genre says it needs to have RPG elements, that's like saying toast ain't toast without the marmalade. Although I do see why you might have been confused because of the large amount of Hack and Slash RPGs out there that all feature RPG elements, but it's really two seperate genres that happen to both have hacking and slashing in them.

Dungeons and dragons says it has to be an RPG, hence why "Hack and Slash RPG", which you just pulled out of your ass, is completely redundant.
I'm not mistaking anything, you're the ones trying to adapt established rules to you very own convenience. Does it really feel that good?

Well your first mistake is to take google as your god irreprochable knows-all. It's a huge mistake as it's gonna give you the results you want over relevant results, it does so by enterring into a database whaterver link you click or whatever, the point is to give you targeted ads. Yeah, they're basically spying on you, but my point is that using google as a basis is like using wikipedia as a basis, a community of circle jerking who'll agree with each other to fit in rather than have any interest of what's real. FYI DnD has its say in that it's the genitor of the term. What you're doing is like reinterpreting a painting while taking a dumb on what the artist actually protrayed because you think it looks like something else.
Who cares? I care. I'm not gonna accept derivatives to be just for the sake of you feeling good aboout yourself, that's called education, everyone needs it, you don't learn a language by reinventing it.

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Who the hell (apart from you and maybe two other people in the world) cares if the term came from DnD at this point. Lots of terms and words come from somewhere and then change their meaning. This game, and a ton of games for that matter, have nothing to do with DnD, and the term has long since been adapted to literally mean any sort of action game (usually third person) where the combat is the biggest part of the gameplay and consists of "hacking and slashing". Most people don't think "RPG elements" when they hear "hack and slash", and you'll just have to live with that knowledge.