Anvil (2021) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Anvil

Take on the role of a Vault Breaker in search of alien artifacts called “Vaults” and fight against monsters and powerful bosses, you can strengthen your Breakers to explore the farthest galaxy that no one has…

80 1 December 2021

What Anvil is

Anvil is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Action Square and released in 2021. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Take on the role of a Vault Breaker in search of alien artifacts called “Vaults” and fight against monsters and powerful bosses, you can strengthen your Breakers to explore the farthest galaxy that no one has ever reached.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Anvil holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 71% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Anvil launched on 1 December 2021, within three weeks of Halo Infinite, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker and Shin Megami Tensei V. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Xbox Series's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Halo Infinite, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Shin Megami Tensei V.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer