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Raiders5

Raiders5 is a top-down maze shooter with some puzzle elements. A level consists of a single maze with a vertical design. The player controls a ship that can move in four directions. To complete a level the…

64 30 April 1985

Raiders5 is a puzzle developed by UPL, released 30 April 1985 on Arcade.

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What Raiders5 is

Raiders5 is a puzzle game developed by UPL and released in 1985. It was published by Taito. It is available on Arcade only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Raiders5 is a top-down maze shooter with some puzzle elements. A level consists of a single maze with a vertical design. The player controls a ship that can move in four directions. To complete a level the exit needs to be opened up before time runs out. A maze consists of two types of blocks that form walls, enemies and collectibles. The tiles for movement are coloured purple. By shooting regular, grey maze walls they disappear and orange tiles appear instead.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Raiders5 holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1985 averaged 70, so it scored 6 points below the year average.

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When did Raiders5 come out?
Raiders5 was released on 30 April 1985 for Arcade.

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