Cyber Citizen Shockman (2023) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Cyber Citizen Shockman

Slash and shoot your way through robots rampaging in Shockman's town!

50 19 May 2023

What Cyber Citizen Shockman is

Cyber Citizen Shockman is an arcade game developed by Masaya and released in 2023. It was published by Ratalaika Games. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Cyber Citizen Shockman is the story of two Japanese school kids named Tasuke and Kyapiko, who are in fact androids built by a mad scientist known only as Doc, who built Tasuke and Kyapiko with the ability to morph into armored superheroes known as Shockman. Their plight is to battle the evil forces of Dark Skull. Doc’s first attempt at a cybernetic organism who went rogue and established a gang of goons called the Skull Force. The Skull Force is trying to take over the city and have captured civilians in various locations. As Shockman, you must take back the city, one building at a time, rescue the hostages, and defeat Dark Skull and his gang.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Cyber Citizen Shockman holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 26 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Cyber Citizen Shockman launched on 19 May 2023, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and System Shock. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, System Shock.

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