Reverie (video game)

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Reverie
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Developer(s) Rainbite
Platform(s) PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch
ReleasePS4, PS Vita
  • WW: 5 April 2018
Nintendo Switch
  • WW: 7 February 2019 [1]
Genre(s) Action-adventure
Mode(s) Single-player

Reverie is an action-adventure video game developed by New Zealand-based indie studio Rainbite, first released on 5 April 2018.

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Gameplay

Reverie features open world exploration, real-time combat, dungeons and boss fights inspired by New Zealand's history, culture and environment, showing influences from classic SNES games including EarthBound and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past . [2] [3] [4]

Development

In February 2019, Reverie: Sweet As Edition released on Nintendo Switch with added features. [5] Reverie is Rainbite's first video game and released on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and later the Nintendo Switch. [2] Social media promotion kept the marketing budget to "zero dollars", instead engaging with Twitch streamers and passionate users of the PlayStation Vita library to build a fanbase. [2] [6]

Critical response

The game received "mixed or average reviews", according to review aggregator Metacritic. [7] [8]

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