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🌍 Aug. 30, 2018
Nintendo Switch
The Messenger
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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ends 09/10/2024 6:59 a.m.
Nintendo eShop
$3.99Platform
Adventure
Indie
Arcade
Single player
Screenshots
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