The Lost Child (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Lost Child

A first-person RPG dungeon crawler set in the present day and continuing the El Shaddai series. The game uses random encounters and turn-based combat with a team of 5 characters. Creatures can be captured and…

81 24 August 2017

What The Lost Child is

The Lost Child is an adventure game developed by Crim and released in 2017. It was published by Kadokawa Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A first-person RPG dungeon crawler set in the present day and continuing the El Shaddai series. The game uses random encounters and turn-based combat with a team of 5 characters. Creatures can be captured and added to your team, as well as being combined to create more powerful creatures.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

The Lost Child holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Lost Child launched on 24 August 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II and Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. 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, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

Official trailer