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Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers

Showdown in the post-apocalyptic frontier! As a team, defend a post-apocalyptic wild west from an invasion of transforming rock monsters alongside your Mii character, Dillon the armadillo, and his squirrel…

53 26 April 2018

Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers is a strategy developed by Nintendo, released 26 April 2018 on New Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS.

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What Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers is

Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers is a strategy game developed by Nintendo and released in 2018. It is available on New Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Showdown in the post-apocalyptic frontier! As a team, defend a post-apocalyptic wild west from an invasion of transforming rock monsters alongside your Mii character, Dillon the armadillo, and his squirrel engineer, Russ. Recruit hired gunners to back you up in battle, and then roll into fights and high-speed chases and take down waves of enemies as Dillon—the "Red Flash" himself! Eighty years ago, a cataclysmic event devastated the world. Holed up in "The City" and outlying frontier towns, no survivor is safe now that a mysterious ship has unleashed an army of supercharged monsters. So, prepare for battle: gather resources by helping local businesses and winning races. Then stock up, man…
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How it plays

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

How it was received

Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers holds a critic score of 53 out of 100. That places it above 9% of the 3,249 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers launched on 26 April 2018, within three weeks of God of War, God of War (2018), Frostpunk and The Forest. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: God of War, God of War (2018), Frostpunk, The Forest.

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When did Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers come out?
Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers was released on 26 April 2018 for New Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS.

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