Lil' Guardsman
Imagine you're a 12 year old, suddenly in charge of the guard shed at the castle gate, where you decide if elves, goblins and 100+ other characters should be admitted. It's a wonderful combination of…
Lil' Guardsman is an adventure developed by Hilltop Studios, released 23 January 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $7.99 at GOG.
What Lil' Guardsman is
Lil' Guardsman is an adventure game developed by Hilltop Studios and released in 2024. It was published by Versus Evil. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Imagine you're a 12 year old, suddenly in charge of the guard shed at the castle gate, where you decide if elves, goblins and 100+ other characters should be admitted. It's a wonderful combination of deduction, narrative and puzzle games.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Lil' Guardsman holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $7.99 at GOG, 60% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Lil' Guardsman launched on 23 January 2024, within three weeks of Helldivers 2, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, Persona 3 Reload and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Helldivers 2, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, Persona 3 Reload, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Lil' Guardsman yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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