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Mercenary Kings

In this frantic 2D action game, you are part of the Mercenary Kings, the most skilled team of warriors-for-hire on Earth, but when your comrades have fallen and the fearsome forces of CLAW have seized an…

75 25 March 2014

Mercenary Kings is an adventure developed by Tribute Games, released 25 March 2014 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and Mac.

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What Mercenary Kings is

Mercenary Kings is an adventure game developed by Tribute Games and released in 2014. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on FNA.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mercenary Kings is a side-scrolling run and gun video game developed and published by Tribute Games. It was funded by Kickstarter and released for Microsoft Windows on March 25, 2014, and for PlayStation 4 on April 1, 2014. Alongside the Mercenary Kings: Reloaded update, versions for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation Vita were released on February 6, 2018. An early-access version of the game was released on Steam on July 23, 2013.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 26 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Mercenary Kings holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core™ Duo or faster, 2 GB RAM and OpenGL 3.0 compliant video card. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Mercenary Kings launched on 25 March 2014, within three weeks of Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls and Titanfall. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, Titanfall.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

Mercenary Kings — frequently asked questions

When did Mercenary Kings come out?
Mercenary Kings was released on 25 March 2014 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Mercenary Kings?
At minimum, Mercenary Kings needs Intel Core™ Duo or faster, 2 GB RAM, OpenGL 3.0 compliant video card graphics, 300 MB HD space of storage.
How many GB is Mercenary Kings?
The PC version needs about 0.3 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("300 MB HD space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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