Little Town Hero (2019) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Little Town Hero

Unlike most RPGs, there is no need to fight weak monsters repeatedly to level grind in "Little Town Hero". Instead, you will need to have a good strategy to fight each boss monster one on one. ...Will the…

55 16 October 2019

What Little Town Hero is

Little Town Hero is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Game Freak and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story is set in an isolated village on the edge of the world. The only gate leading outside is heavily guarded by a castle, and the villagers are not allowed to leave. Most of the villagers don't give it a thought, and happily go on with their everyday lives. However, the protagonist is a little different from the others - he wants to see the world outside. One day, a "Monster" appears in the village, shocking everyone because until then, no one knew such creatures existed. The protagonist is able to fight it using a mysterious Red stone he found in the coalmines. In the course of his defense of the village, he gradually unravels secrets of how the stones and the monsters came to be…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Little Town Hero holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 9% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Little Town Hero launched on 16 October 2019, within three weeks of The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium, Persona 5 Royal and Luigi's Mansion 3. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium, Persona 5 Royal, Luigi's Mansion 3.

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