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The Slater

Get ready to kill low-life drug dealers, notorious crime bosses and anyone who stands in your way as you seek revenge for your father's murder. Use stealth-based tactics to get the upper hand on your enemies…

55 20 September 2018

The Slater is an indie developed by Laina Interactive, released 20 September 2018 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Slater is

The Slater is an indie game developed by Laina Interactive and released in 2018. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Slater is a story-driven first-person stealth-action game that puts you in the shoes of a former cop Mark Slater, whose father gets murdered while investigating a new designer drug D-Pain. Now is your chance to eliminate everyone involved with his murder, and everyone who had anything to do with the new designer drug. Be prepared to assassinate your targets one by one.
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How it plays

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

How it was received

The Slater holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Slater launched on 20 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

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When did The Slater come out?
The Slater was released on 20 September 2018 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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