Death or Treat (2023) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Death or Treat

“Death or Treat” is an action rogue-lite, Hack and Slash and 2D with traditional animations and handpainted environments.You will play as Scary, the owner of Ghost Mart. The Halloween spirit is missing. Join…

74 5 May 2023

What Death or Treat is

Death or Treat is an adventure game developed by Saona Studios and released in 2023. It was published by Perp Games. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

“Death or Treat” is an action rogue-lite, Hack and Slash and 2D with traditional animations and handpainted environments.You will play as Scary, the owner of Ghost Mart. The Halloween spirit is missing. Join Scary to save HallowTown.

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Death or Treat holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Death or Treat launched on 5 May 2023, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Dead Island 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Planet of Lana. 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, Dead Island 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Planet of Lana.

Cheats and codes

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