Sabotage
The Messenger
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.
- Released
- 30 August 2018
- Developer
- Sabotage
- Publisher
- Devolver Digital
- Perspective
- Side view
- Age rating
- PEGI 7 · ESRB E10+
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Metacritic
- 83/100
- Steam recommendations
- 10,602
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox One · Nintendo Switch
- Genres
- Platform · Adventure · Indie · Arcade
- Estimated owners
- 500,000–1,000,000 (est.)
- 83
- Player rating
- 87
- Critic rating
- 200
- Ratings counted
- 92.6%
- Steam reviews
- 48
- Achievements
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Quick answers
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How long to beat
- Main story
- 14.5 h
- Main + extras
- 15.5 h
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Key facts
Platforms
Game modes
- Single player
Themes
- Action
- Comedy
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Trailer
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Screenshots
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Reviews and languages
92.6% of 13,134 Steam reviews are positive. Valve labels that “Very Positive”.
15 languages in the interface, 10 of them with full voice acting. English is supported, with full voice acting.
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Platform releases
- Nintendo Switch
- 30 August 2018
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- 30 August 2018
- PlayStation 4
- 19 March 2019
- Xbox One
- 25 June 2020
- PlayStation 5
- 23 January 2025
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Editions, DLC and remakes
- The Messenger: Picnic Panic Expansion
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Official pages
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