Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate (2024) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate

Simultaneously control a sword-wielding robot and a gunslinging space frog in Shoulders of Giants, an explosively colourful sci-fi roguelike. Play alone, with a friend, or as part of a four-person team…

12 August 2024

What Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate is

Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate is a shooter game developed by Moving Pieces and released in 2024. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 5.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Shoulders of Giants is an explosively colourful sci-fi roguelike designed to put your teamwork to the test. Players simultaneously control a sword-wielding robot and a gunslinging space frog, working alone, with a friend, or as one of a team of four. The forces of Entropy are spreading chaos through the stars, corrupting living planets and urging on the heat death of the universe. Led by the psychic Owl, one scrappy team of space survivors are fighting to restore the balance. A mysterious mech! A sharpshooting amphibian! Together they must mow down waves of enemies and restore light and life to the galaxy!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate launched on 12 August 2024, within three weeks of Black Myth: Wukong, Star Wars Outlaws, Thank Goodness You're Here! and Halls of Torment. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Black Myth: Wukong, Star Wars Outlaws, Thank Goodness You're Here!, Halls of Torment.

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