Deathtrap (video game)

This article is about the 2015 video game. For the 1984 video game, see The Death Trap. For other uses, see Deathtrap.
Deathtrap
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Developer(s)NeocoreGames
Publisher(s)NeocoreGames
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Xbox One, PlayStation 4
Release
  • Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
  • 4 February 2015
  • Xbox One
  • 3 January 2017
  • PlayStation 4
  • 28 September 2020
Genre(s)tower defense
action role-playing game
Mode(s)single player
multiplayer (cooperative and versus)

Deathtrap is a tower defense/action RPG video game released in 2015 by NeocoreGames for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It shares the gothic fiction setting with NeocoreGames' The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing and features a lone protagonist who is sent to a border world in an alternate dimension ("Ink") to defend a series of ancient strongholds against a horde of monsters invading from the depths of that dimension and trying to break through to the physical world.[1]

The Xbox One version was released on 3 January 2017 under the title The World of Van Helsing: Deathtrap.[2] NeocoreGames released a PlayStation 4 port on 28 September 2020.[3]

  1. ^ Clark, Justin (2015-03-15). "Deathtrap Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  2. ^ "The World of Van Helsing: Deathtrap". IGN. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  3. ^ Phillips, Tom (2014-08-27). "Van Helsing developer reveals tower defense game Deathtrap". Eurogamer. Retrieved 2017-03-24.