Killer Is Dead (2013) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Killer Is Dead

Killer is Dead is an action game that is no sequel to Killer7 or the No More Heroes series by the same developers, but shares elements such as violent action, a main character wielding a katana as the most…

57 1 August 2013

What Killer Is Dead is

Killer Is Dead is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and released in 2013. It was published by Deep Silver. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It runs on Unreal Engine 3.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Killer Is Dead is a hack and slash video game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture. It was released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in August 2013 and for Windows in May 2014. It is published by Kadokawa Games in Japan, Xseed Games in North America and Deep Silver in Europe.

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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

Killer Is Dead holds a critic score of 57 out of 100. That places it above 16% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 13 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 58, across 90 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 10.8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 18.3 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Killer Is Dead launched on 1 August 2013, within three weeks of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Saints Row IV and Europa Universalis IV. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Saints Row IV, Europa Universalis IV.

Cheats and codes

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