Henchman Story
A visual novel where you play as a beleaguered henchman working for a bumbling supervillain, and a slice of superhero satire packed with colorful characters and meaningful choices. Even henchmen have bills to…
Henchman Story is an adventure developed by Silken Sail Entertainment, released 14 October 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Henchman Story is
Henchman Story is an adventure game developed by Silken Sail Entertainment and released in 2021. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ren'Py. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Henchman Story is a narrative adventure where you play as a beleaguered henchman working for a bumbling supervillain. It’s thankless work. Week in and week out, you put on your purple spandex and get the crap beaten out of you by much stronger, much cooler people wearing much fancier spandex. But the checks clear, and Lord Bedlam offers healthcare, so a job’s a job, right? Even henchmen have bills to pay, and sometimes, even henchmen can make choices that change everything.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Henchman Story holds a critic score of 95 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 21 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Henchman Story launched on 14 October 2021, within three weeks of Age of Empires IV, Unpacking, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy and Far Cry 6. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Age of Empires IV, Unpacking, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Far Cry 6.
Cheats and codes
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Official trailer
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