PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate HD (2013) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate HD

The definitive PixelJunk Monsters experience! Tikiman the Forest Defender is in trouble. Hordes of monsters are sweeping through his realm, hoping to chow down on his offspring – and it’s up to you to defend…

90 31 July 2013

What PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate HD is

PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate HD is a puzzle game developed by Q-Games Ltd. and released in 2013. It is available on PlayStation Vita only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

PixelJunk Monsters is a tower defense video game developed by Q-Games for the PlayStation 3. The second game in the PixelJunk series, it was originally released in Japan on December 6, 2007 and worldwide by Sony Computer Entertainment on the PlayStation Store on January 24, 2008. The game was released for the PlayStation Portable under the title PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and kids. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the PixelJunk series

PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate HD is the 12th of 23 entries we hold in the PixelJunk series. It arrived a year after PixelJunk: 4am. The next entry was PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate in 2013. Its critic score of 90 is 16 points above the series average of 74. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate HD holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average.

What it launched against

PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate HD launched on 31 July 2013, within three weeks of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Saints Row IV and Europa Universalis IV. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Saints Row IV, Europa Universalis IV.

Cheats and codes

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