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Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers

Soul Hackers delivers a first-person, dungeon-crawling RPG experience set in a future where technology and otherworldly forces meet in a macabre fusion of cyberpunk futurism and gothic horror. A first-person…

73 13 November 1997

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers is an adventure developed by Atlus, released 13 November 1997 on PlayStation and Sega Saturn.

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What Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers is

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers is an adventure game developed by Atlus and released in 1997. It is available on PlayStation and Sega Saturn. It runs on TrueMotion.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers is a 1997 role-playing video game developed by Atlus. The game is the second installment in the Devil Summoner series, itself a part of the larger Megami Tensei franchise. Originally published by Atlus for the Sega Saturn, it was later ported to the PlayStation in 1999 and Nintendo 3DS in 2012.
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How it plays

Its themes are action, horror, mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers is the 27th of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers - Akuma Zensho in 1997. Its critic score of 73 is 7 points below the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Persona 5 at 94.

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How it was received

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers launched on 13 November 1997, within three weeks of NFL Blitz, Diddy Kong Racing, Time Crisis II and Wing Commander: Prophecy. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: NFL Blitz, Diddy Kong Racing, Time Crisis II, Wing Commander: Prophecy.

Cheats and codes

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When did Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers come out?
Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers was released on 13 November 1997 for PlayStation and Sega Saturn.

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