Dragon Ball: The Breakers (2022) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Dragon Ball: The Breakers

Dragon Ball: The Breakers is a 1-on-7 online asymmetrical action game in which a band of seven everyday humans tries to survive the Raider (a classic Dragon Ball rival such as Cell and Frieza) who will hunt…

59 14 October 2022

What Dragon Ball: The Breakers is

Dragon Ball: The Breakers is a fighting game developed by Bird Studio and released in 2022. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Caught in an unexpected temporal phenomenon, seven ordinary citizens find themselves stranded in a Temporal Seam: they share their imprisonment with the Raider, a menacing enemy from another timeline with an overwhelming power. Their only hope for survival is to break out from the Temporal Seam with the Super Time Machine, but the Raider is on their tracks and becomes stronger by the minute. In a race against time the cunning of Survivors clashes with the power of the Raider, to break free or be broken.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, party and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Dragon Ball series

Dragon Ball: The Breakers is the 166th of 179 entries we hold in the Dragon Ball series. It arrived 8 months after Dragon Ball FighterZ: Android 21 - Lab Coat. The next entry was Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot - Legendary Edition in 2023. Its critic score of 59 is 8 points below the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 at 88.

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How it was received

Dragon Ball: The Breakers holds a critic score of 59 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 15 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Dragon Ball: The Breakers launched on 14 October 2022, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord and Bayonetta 3. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 9 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Bayonetta 3.

Cheats and codes

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