When did Star Fox Guard come out?

Star Fox Guard was released on 21 April 2016 for Wii U.

Star Fox Guard (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Star Fox Guard

Star Fox Guard is a tower defense video game co-developed by Nintendo and PlatinumGames for the Wii U. The game was bundled as a separate disc for the first print edition of Star Fox Zero during its release in…

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What Star Fox Guard is

Star Fox Guard is a puzzle game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development and released in 2016. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Star Fox Guard is a tower defense video game co-developed by Nintendo and PlatinumGames for the Wii U. The game was bundled as a separate disc for the first print edition of Star Fox Zero during its release in April 2016, and as a digital download code on the Wii U eShop afterwards.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Star Fox series

Star Fox Guard is the 20th of 26 entries we hold in the Star Fox series. The next entry was Star Fox 2 in 2017. Its critic score of 71 is 7 points below the series average of 78. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Star Fox Guard holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 40% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Star Fox Guard launched on 21 April 2016, within three weeks of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Doom, DOOM (2016) and Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Doom, DOOM (2016), Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition.

Cheats and codes

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