Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time
Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is an action-adventure video game developed by Soleil Ltd., a then subsidiary studio of the Japanese video game developer Valhalla Game Studios and published by Adult Swim Games. It is based on the American animated television series Samurai Jack. The game serves as an alternative scenario that takes place during the show's series finale in its final season; Genndy Tartakovsky confirmed it to be canon to the series. It was released on August 21, 2020 for iOS and macOS (through Apple Arcade), Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One, and received generally positive reviews from critics.
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Developer(s) | Soleil Ltd. |
Publisher(s) | Adult Swim Games |
Director(s) | Hiroaki Matsui |
Producer(s) | Yoshifuru Okamoto |
Designer(s) | Noboru Matsumoto |
Programmer(s) | Yoshihiro Ueno |
Artist(s) | Marcos Ramos |
Writer(s) | Darrick Bachman |
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Series | Samurai Jack |
Engine | Unreal Engine 4 |
Platform(s) | iOS macOS Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 Windows Xbox One |
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Genre(s) | Action-adventure, hack and slash |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
This is the first Samurai Jack video game to be released on Microsoft and Apple platforms, as Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku was only released for PlayStation 2 and GameCube.