Ninja Shodown is an arcade developed by Bitmap Bureau, released 26 September 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac.
What Ninja Shodown is
Ninja Shodown is an arcade game developed by Bitmap Bureau and released in 2017. It was published by Rising Star Games. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
It’s every ninja for themselves in the ultimate battle for the Jade Katana! Fight alone, team up or take on friends in brutal arena-based combat where the mighty prevail and the weak pay the ultimate price: death and dishonour!
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. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Ninja Shodown holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 26% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 6 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Ninja Shodown launched on 26 September 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Cuphead, South Park: The Fractured But Whole and Middle-earth: Shadow of War. 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: Destiny 2, Cuphead, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War.
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