The Messenger
Nintendo Switch
- Genre
- Action, Adventure, Arcade, Comedy, Indie, Platform
- Game Type
- Main game
Overview
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan's survival. Leveraging players expectations as a core game design ingredient, The Messenger is first presented as an 8-bit action platformer with a simple story, that unravels into an epic time traveling tale, eventually revealing itself as a 16-bit Metroidvania game packed with replay value and deadpan humor.
Game Details
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One
- Game Modes
- Single-player
- Player Perspective
- Side view
- IGDB Rating
- 83.2/100
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