Skull Island: Rise of Kong
Embark on a 3rd person action-adventure quest to avenge the death of your parents at the hands of the ultimate alpha predator: Gaw. Conquer waves of primal beasts and defeat the minions of your arch-nemesis on…
Skull Island: Rise of Kong is an adventure developed by IguanaBee, released 17 October 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Skull Island: Rise of Kong is
Skull Island: Rise of Kong is an adventure game developed by IguanaBee and released in 2023. It was published by GameMill Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Based on the King Kong mythos, Skull Island: Rise of Kong tells the origin of the mighty ape as a tale of loss and vengeance set on the primordial Skull Island. The story opens in tragedy, as a young Kong witnesses the slaughter of his family at the hands of a tyrannical creature known as the Deathrunner Gaw. Left alone in a savage wilderness teeming with monstrous fauna, the orphaned Kong dedicates himself to growing stronger, hardening his body and honing his ferocity through years of struggle against the island's deadly predators. As he matures into a towering adult, Kong sets out across the untamed landscape in pursuit of the beast that destroyed everything he loved. His journey carries…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the King Kong series
Skull Island: Rise of Kong is the 18th of 25 entries we hold in the King Kong series. It arrived 6 months after Pinball FX: Godzilla vs. Kong Pinball Pack. The next entry was Pinball Masters in 2024. Its critic score of 15 is 49 points below the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is King Kong at 80.
How it was received
Skull Island: Rise of Kong holds a critic score of 15 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 61 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Skull Island: Rise of Kong launched on 17 October 2023, within three weeks of Alan Wake II, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Marvel's Spider-Man 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Alan Wake II, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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