Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a side-scrolling action platformer that channels the golden age of classic 16-bit action games in a full-throttle quest for revenge.
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is an adventure developed by JoyMasher, released 12 January 2023 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $6.79 at GOG.
What Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is an adventure game developed by JoyMasher and released in 2023. It was published by DotEmu. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the oppressed world of Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider, humanity finds an unlikely hero. After building an army of super soldiers as weapons of war, the authoritarians unwittingly seal their own fates by bringing online the ninja warrior known as Moonrider. Conceived as a tool to preserve the totalitarian state, the Moonrider instead rejects its intended purpose and wages a relentless battle for vengeance against its creators and fellow super soldiers.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $6.79 at GOG, 60% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider launched on 12 January 2023, within three weeks of Dead Space, Hi-Fi Rush, Pizza Tower and Hitman World of Assassination. 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: Dead Space, Hi-Fi Rush, Pizza Tower, Hitman World of Assassination.
Cheats and codes
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Official trailer
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