Overlord: Minions
Meet Giblet, Blaze, Stench, and Zap - an elite Minion crew who, assisted by minion master Gnarl, get star billing in Overlord Minions, an irresistible and accessible puzzle action game, designed exclusively…
Overlord: Minions is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Climax Studios, released 23 June 2009 on Nintendo DS.
What Overlord: Minions is
Overlord: Minions is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Climax Studios and released in 2009. It was published by Codemasters. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Meet Giblet, Blaze, Stench, and Zap - an elite Minion crew who, assisted by minion master Gnarl, get star billing in Overlord Minions, an irresistible and accessible puzzle action game, designed exclusively for Nintendo DS. In Overlord Minions, the Overlord commands the Minion team remotely. The Nintendo DS stylus becomes an extension of his evil will and every precise Touch Screen command is the player-as-Overlord directing, commanding and combining minions in battle, pointing and sweeping them to attack enemies and solving puzzles to execute his dastardly plans. Controlling the Special Farces team of four, players negotiate fiendish levels and take on a huge range of warped enemies to…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Overlord: Minions holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Overlord: Minions launched on 23 June 2009, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Trine Enchanted Edition, Trine and The Sims 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Trine Enchanted Edition, Trine, The Sims 3.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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