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Dexter series

Dexter: The Game

The game is based on the events of season 1 of the similarly named TV show. The game consists of five chapters and in each chapter your tasked with killing someone.

74 13 September 2009

Dexter: The Game is a fighting developed by Icarus Games, released 13 September 2009 on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Dexter: The Game is

Dexter: The Game is a fighting game developed by Icarus Games and released in 2009. It was published by Marc Ecko Entertainment. It is available on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Chapter 1: Mike Donovan The game begins with a narration by Dexter who introduces himself and says that he is going to kill that night. Mike Donovan, upstanding teacher and choir director who seems to have been burying his dirty secrets, Dexter followed Donovan to the outskirts of Miami. After Donovan left, Dexter investigates the area and confirmed his suspicions that Donovan has been killing off his own choir boys and burying their bodies there. Dexter prepares his Kill Room at a nearby building, all it needs is Donovan. Dexter sneaks to the choir stage and snatches Donovan's car keys, Donovan entered his Volvo after a choir performance, where Dexter was waiting in the backseat; after…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Dexter: The Game holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 57% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Dexter: The Game launched on 13 September 2009, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Pokémon SoulSilver Version and Pokémon HeartGold Version. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version.

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When did Dexter: The Game come out?
Dexter: The Game was released on 13 September 2009 for iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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