Emerald Shores
Emerald Shores is a challenging SNES-inspired platformer with a bunch of twists. Level up, take on rewarding sidequests, play a variety of minigames, unlock secret levels, raise a pet monster, and more! Can…
Emerald Shores is an indie developed by Fordesoft, released 13 November 2018 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Emerald Shores is
Emerald Shores is an indie game developed by Fordesoft and released in 2018. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Emerald Shores is a challenging SNES-inspired platformer with a bunch of twists. Level up, take on rewarding sidequests, play a variety of minigames, unlock secret levels, raise a pet monster, and more! Can you liberate the floating island world of Emerald Shores from its captors?
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Emerald Shores holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Emerald Shores launched on 13 November 2018, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption 2, Battlefield V, Hitman 2 and Spyro Reignited Trilogy. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption 2, Battlefield V, Hitman 2, Spyro Reignited Trilogy.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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