The Messenger: Picnic Panic is an indie developed by Sabotage, released 11 July 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Messenger: Picnic Panic is
The Messenger: Picnic Panic is an indie game developed by Sabotage and released in 2019. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Messenger's epic story continues on in a summer vacation DLC full of tropical action! On Voodkin Island, the demon Barma'thazël captured helpless little creatures to use them in his dark rituals. Only the heroic Messenger can save them now in a vacation-meets-rescue-mission adventure!
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Messenger: Picnic Panic holds a critic score of 0 out of 100. That places it above 0% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 69 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Messenger: Picnic Panic launched on 11 July 2019, within three weeks of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Super Mario Maker 2, The Sinking City and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Super Mario Maker 2, The Sinking City, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled.
Official trailer
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