The Chronicles of Riddick series
Riddick: The Merc Files
Command the enigmatic Riddick, voiced by Vin Diesel, as he battles pursuing mercenaries across 16 levels. Utilize stealth, combat, and eyeshine in darkness. Modes include Survival, Escape, Fetch, and Takedown.
Riddick: The Merc Files is an adventure developed by Gaming Corps, released 28 August 2013 on Android and iOS.
What Riddick: The Merc Files is
Riddick: The Merc Files is an adventure game developed by Gaming Corps and released in 2013. It is available on Android and iOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Command the enigmatic Riddick, voiced by Vin Diesel, as he battles pursuing mercenaries across 16 levels. Utilize stealth, combat, and eyeshine in darkness. Modes include Survival, Escape, Fetch, and Takedown.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Chronicles of Riddick series
Riddick: The Merc Files is the third of 3 entries we hold in the The Chronicles of Riddick series. It arrived 4 years after The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 30 is 37 points below the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay at 89.
See all 3 The Chronicles of Riddick games in release order →
How it was received
Riddick: The Merc Files holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 40 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Riddick: The Merc Files launched on 28 August 2013, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto V, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please and Rayman Legends. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto V, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Rayman Legends.
Official trailer
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