Shoulders of Giants
Shoulders of Giants is an explosively colourful roguelike where players simultaneously control a mysterious mech and the gunslinging amphibian riding on its back. Work alone, with a friend, or as one member of…
Shoulders of Giants is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Moving Pieces, released 26 January 2023 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Shoulders of Giants is
Shoulders of Giants is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Moving Pieces and released in 2023. It is available on 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!
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.
How it was received
Shoulders of Giants holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Shoulders of Giants launched on 26 January 2023, within three weeks of Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space, Metroid Prime Remastered and Hi-Fi Rush. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the Xbox Series's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space, Metroid Prime Remastered, Hi-Fi Rush.
Cheats and codes
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Official trailer
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