Tonight at a glance
- Platforms
- PS4 · PC · PS5 · XONE · Switch
- Mode
- Single player
- Age rating
- PEGI 7
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- Action
- Comedy
- retro
- ninja
- 2d
- metroidvania
- difficult
- pixel graphics
- 8-bit
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
Production
- Players
- 79 / 100 · 192 players
- Critics
- 87 / 100 · 8 critics
- Developer
- Sabotage
- Publisher
- Devolver Digital
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
