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Color Guardians

Color Guardians is an exciting fast action side scrolling game that combines quick thinking with frantic gameplay into a hard to master challenge! Switching colors and collecting items, all while avoiding…

67 12 May 2015

Color Guardians is an indie, released 12 May 2015 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Color Guardians is

Color Guardians was released in 2015. It was published by Niffler Ltd.. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Shantae is a 2002 platform video game developed by WayForward and originally published by Capcom for the Game Boy Color. The video game follows the adventures of the titular half-genie Shantae as she travels across Sequin Land to thwart the domination plans of the evil lady pirate Risky Boots. During her quest, she learns various dances and acquires items which make her progressively stronger as well as unlocking new abilities and locations, culminating in a final showdown with Risky at her hideout.
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How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 46 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Color Guardians holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz or equivalent, 2 GB RAM and Intel Core HD Graphics 4000, NVIDIA 8800 GT, ATI Radeon HD 4850 or better. 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. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Color Guardians launched on 12 May 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Kerbal Space Program, Splatoon and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Kerbal Space Program, Splatoon, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

Color Guardians — frequently asked questions

When did Color Guardians come out?
Color Guardians was released on 12 May 2015 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Color Guardians?
At minimum, Color Guardians needs Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz or equivalent, 2 GB RAM, Intel Core HD Graphics 4000, NVIDIA 8800 GT, ATI Radeon HD 4850 or better graphics, 1500 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Color Guardians?
The PC version needs about 1.5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1500 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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