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The Messenger

by Sabotage

2018
PlatformAdventureIndieArcade

Challenging · Comedy · Metroidvania

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Excellent

About

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.
Publisher
Devolver Digital
Modes
Single player
Themes
Action, Comedy
Perspective
Side view
Age Rating
E10+ — Everyone 10+

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DLC & Expansions

Available in Bundles

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Release History

Aug 30, 2018PC, Switch
Mar 19, 2019PS4
Jun 25, 2020Xbox One
Jan 23, 2025PS5

Language Support

11 languages
LanguageAudioSubtitlesInterface
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
English
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Russian
Spanish (Spain)