Retaliate (2024) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Retaliate

Retaliate is a vertically scrolling space shooter with the unique gameplay mechanic being that the player starts with no ammo. Instead the player has a shield and is able to use it to both destroy enemies and…

76 15 July 2024

What Retaliate is

Retaliate is an arcade game developed by Romans I XVI Gaming and released in 2024. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on MonoGame.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Retaliate is a vertically scrolling space shooter with the unique gameplay mechanic being that the player starts with no ammo. Instead the player has a shield and is able to use it to both destroy enemies and absorb their weapons. Absorbed weapons can then be fired by the player.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Retaliate holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 58% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Retaliate launched on 15 July 2024, within three weeks of Nobody Wants to Die, Thank Goodness You're Here!, Once Human and Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 11 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Nobody Wants to Die, Thank Goodness You're Here!, Once Human, Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess.

Cheats and codes

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