Wraithborne

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Wraithborne
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Developer(s) Alpha Dog Games
Publisher(s) Crescent Moon Games
Engine Unreal Engine [1]
Platform(s) iOS, Ouya, Android
ReleaseiOS
November 8, 2012
Ouya
August 8, 2013
Android
February 18, 2014
Genre(s) Action role-playing
Mode(s) Single-player

Wraithborne is an action role-playing game developed by Alpha Dog Games and published by Crescent Moon Games for iOS in 2012, for Ouya in 2013, and for Android in 2014.

Contents

Development

The game was developed in six months. [1]

Reception

The iOS version received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [2]

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