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The Messenger

2018 83 / 100 Adventure Arcade Indie
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 Show full summary

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.

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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In a village of ninjas, an ancient prophecy foretells that a "Western Hero" will one day arrive to save them from the demons that plague the land. When the Demon King attacks, the promised hero appears and repels him, then entrusts a young ninja with a sacred scroll — naming him the Messenger and charging him to carry it east, to the top of a distant mountain. Aided along the way by a mysterious blue-robed shopkeeper, the Messenger sets out across a perilous world, his simple delivery gradually drawing him into a far greater struggle that spans centuries and bends time itself.

Game feelChallenging GenreAdventure GenreArcade GenreIndie ThemeAction ThemeComedy
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Sabotage
Publisher
Devolver Digital
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Standalone
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Single player
Perspective
Side view
Themes
Action, Comedy
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  • Xbox One Jun 25, 2020
  • PlayStation 4 Mar 19, 2019
  • Nintendo Switch Aug 30, 2018
  • PlayStation 5 Jan 23, 2025
  • PC (Microsoft Windows) Aug 30, 2018

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