The Messenger is an adventure developed by Sabotage, released 30 August 2018 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It currently starts at $3.99 at Steam. The main story takes about 15.5 hrs to finish.
What The Messenger is
The Messenger is an adventure game developed by Sabotage and released in 2018. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In a village of ninjas, an ancient prophecy foretells that a "Western Hero" will one day arrive to save them from the demons that plague the land. When the Demon King attacks, the promised hero appears and repels him, then entrusts a young ninja with a sacred scroll — naming him the Messenger and charging him to carry it east, to the top of a distant mountain. Aided along the way by a mysterious blue-robed shopkeeper, the Messenger sets out across a perilous world, his simple delivery gradually drawing him into a far greater struggle that spans centuries and bends time itself.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 48 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Messenger holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 203 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15.5 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $3.99, that works out to about $0.26 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel core i5-4210 1.7ghz, 2 GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics 4400. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.99 at Steam, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
The Messenger launched on 30 August 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Messenger yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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