The Messenger [Devolver Digital]
The Messenger [Devolver Digital]
The Messenger [Devolver Digital]
The Messenger [Devolver Digital]
The Messenger [Devolver Digital]
The Messenger [Devolver Digital]
The Messenger [Devolver Digital]
The Messenger [Devolver Digital]
The Messenger [Devolver Digital]
The Messenger [Devolver Digital]

The Messenger [Devolver Digital]

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For its first few hours, The Messenger looks like a lost NES game: a lone ninja, a burning village, a scroll that must be carried to the top of a mountain, and stages full of spikes, bats and bottomless pits in the proud tradition of Ninja Gaiden. Then the game pulls the rug out from under you. Step through a time rift and the world blooms into 16 bits, the chiptune soundtrack swells into richer arrangements, and a straightforward action platformer reveals itself as a sprawling Metroidvania built around hopping between past and future.

Sabotage, the Quebec City studio behind it, nailed the feel before anything else. The Cloudstep is the clever core: strike an enemy, lantern or projectile in midair and you earn another jump, so skilled players chain attacks into long aerial routes that skip over danger entirely. A rope dart lets you grapple across gaps, and a wingsuit opens up long glides, and the second half of the game sends you back through earlier stages in both eras to find new paths and secrets you could not reach before.

The writing is the other surprise. The Shopkeeper, a cloaked merchant with a fondness for long-winded stories and fourth-wall jokes, is one of the funniest characters in recent indie games, and Quarble, the little demon who saves you from death in exchange for a cut of your Time Shards, turns failure into a running gag rather than a punishment. Composer Rainbowdragoneyes scored every area twice, once in 8-bit and once in 16-bit, and hearing a familiar melody transform as you cross a rift never gets old.

Published by Devolver Digital, The Messenger won a wave of praise on release in 2018 for its tight controls and clever structure, and Sabotage later expanded the same universe with the RPG Sea of Stars. If you grew up on Ryu Hayabusa's NES adventures, this is the love letter that keeps unfolding long after you think you have seen its whole shape, and a physical PlayStation 5 copy of an indie platformer that still feels sharp in every jump.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2018
Publisher
Devolver Digital
Developer
Sabotage
Players
Single player
About the game

As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan's survival. Leveraging players expectations as a core game design ingredient, The Messenger is first presented as an 8-bit action platformer with a simple story, that unravels into an epic time traveling tale, eventually revealing itself as a 16-bit Metroidvania game packed with replay value and deadpan humor.

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