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Sands of Destruction

Sands of Destruction is a 2008 role-playing video game developed by Imageepoch and published by Sega for the Nintendo DS. It was released in Japan in 2008, and in North America in 2010. Set in a desert world…

67 25 September 2008 ESRB T

Sands of Destruction is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Imageepoch, released 25 September 2008 on Nintendo DS.

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What Sands of Destruction is

Sands of Destruction is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Imageepoch and released in 2008. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo DS only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sands of Destruction is set on a desert world that is periodically destroyed and reborn by an ancient force tied to a power dubbed the Destruct Code and guarded by the four Primal Lords. In the current incarnation of the world, the population is split between humans and anthropomorphic Ferals. Ferals, ruled by the Twelve Beast Lords, mostly treat humans as a slave class. In response to this, two human-centric factions emerge: the World Annihilation Front who seek to find the Destruct Code and destroy the world, and the Golden Lions who oppose the Ferals but wish to preserve the world. To oppose them, the Beast Lords create the World Salvation Committee to defend the current system. The main…
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How it plays

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

How it was received

Sands of Destruction holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 26% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Sands of Destruction launched on 25 September 2008, within three weeks of Dead Space (2008), Dead Space, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut and World of Goo. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dead Space (2008), Dead Space, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, World of Goo.

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When did Sands of Destruction come out?
Sands of Destruction was released on 25 September 2008 for Nintendo DS.

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