Haunted Dungeons: Hyakki Castle (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Haunted Dungeons: Hyakki Castle

A fantastical world based on ancient Japanese folklore. Hyakki Castle, a mysterious castle built in a land of exile. This castle is brimming with mysteries and fantasy... Slay the Lord of Hyakki Castle! New…

69 15 November 2017 ESRB T

What Haunted Dungeons: Hyakki Castle is

Haunted Dungeons: Hyakki Castle is an adventure game developed by Asakusa Studios and released in 2017. It was published by Happinet Corporation. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A fantastical world based on ancient Japanese folklore. Hyakki Castle, a mysterious castle built in a land of exile. This castle is brimming with mysteries and fantasy... Slay the Lord of Hyakki Castle! New strategies and puzzle solving by dividing parties... By Asakusa Studios, based in Tokyo, Japan a new evolution of real-time dungeon RPGs!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Haunted Dungeons: Hyakki Castle holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Haunted Dungeons: Hyakki Castle launched on 15 November 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.

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