Monster Slayers (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Monster Slayers

Developed by Nerdook (Reverse Crawl, Vertical Drop Heroes), Monster Slayers is a complete reimagining of the free web-based hit of the same name, which has been played over 4 million times on gaming portal…

0 23 March 2017

What Monster Slayers is

Monster Slayers is an adventure game developed by Nerdook Productions and released in 2017. It was published by Digerati Distribution. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Developed by Nerdook (Reverse Crawl, Vertical Drop Heroes), Monster Slayers is a complete reimagining of the free web-based hit of the same name, which has been played over 4 million times on gaming portal, Kongregate. A rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure, Monster Slayers uses an innovative card-based battle system and lets you customize a deck to suit your play style. Create a new hero to join the Monster Slayers Guild and choose your path through the perilous Northern Valley as you follow your quest to defeat the legendary Harbinger and become a true Monster Slayer.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Monster Slayers holds a critic score of 0 out of 100. That places it above 0% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 71 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Monster Slayers launched on 23 March 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition and Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition.

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