Is The Messenger worth it?

The Messenger is rated 87.00/100 by 8 critics, and 79.34/100 by 195 renowned gamers.

What type of game is The Messenger?

The Messenger is a platform, adventure, indie and arcade game. The game features action and comedy.

In what year was The Messenger released?

The Messenger was first released in 2018.

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The Messenger

Released on 30 August 2018 (8 years ago)

As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan's survival. Leveraging players expectations as a core game design ingredient, The Messenger is first presented as an 8-bit action platformer with a simple story, that unravels into an epic time traveling tale, eventually revealing itself as a 16-bit Metroidvania game packed with replay value and deadpan humor.

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83.17/100

Average rating based on 203 scores

Storyline

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.