Full Metal Furies

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Full Metal Furies
Full Metal Furies cover art.jpg
Developer(s) Cellar Door Games
Publisher(s) Cellar Door Games
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
ReleaseMicrosoft Windows & Xbox One
January 17, 2018
Nintendo Switch
November 6, 2018
Genre(s) Action, adventure
Mode(s) Single-player, cooperative

Full Metal Furies is an action adventure video game developed and published by Cellar Door Games. Announced in February 2017, it was released on January 17, 2018 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One. [1]

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Development

After Cellar Door Games's success with Rogue Legacy , [2] the development for Full Metal Furies commenced. It had been in development for three years before it was announced on February 20, 2017. [3] [4] The game was released onto Microsoft Windows and Xbox One on January 17, 2018. [2] [5]

Reception

The game received a Metacritic score of 75 and 85 on Xbox One and PC platforms, respectively, indicating generally favorable reviews. [6] [7] Despite the reviews, the game failed to break even, causing Cellar Door Games to describe it as "a pretty massive failure". [9]

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