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Archive for March, 2021

23rd March 2021: Today Fossil Games have released a sneak preview of their forthcoming horror RPG Sunshine Manor, scheduled to be released later this year.

“As you can see from the trailer there’s a lot more to Sunshine Manor than your standard horror RPG. The team has added combat, multiple enemies, boss fights, puzzles and much more awaits you behind the doors of the mysterious Aitken Manor.” Paul Dolby, developer at Fossil Games.

Sunshine Manor is a true love letter to classic horror films of the 1980s where you play as Ada whose night of trick or treating turns into a night of terror when she becomes trapped inside the old Aitken Manor. Use Ada’s latent psychic powers to battle all kinds of fiendish demons, solve puzzles and maybe even defeat the omni-present Shadow Man….who is watching your every move!

Sunshine Manor Features:

• Discover and explore the ever-changing haunted Sunshine Manor.
• Transport yourself to the Demon Realm and banish hellish fiends!
• Beautiful hand-drawn 8-bit graphics.
• A deadly game of Cat & Mouse where the Demon can be anywhere.
• 80s Soundtrack written specially for this game.
• A fantastic evil consumed story-driven narrative.
• Devious puzzles to tax your brain box.
• Lots of scares, spooky scenes and nods to iconic horror franchises.

What happened in the old Aitken House that triggered the Camp Sunshine Massacre?

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TBC, Manchester, UK – Merge Games is delighted to announce action farming RPG game Monster Harvest will be landing on Steam and Nintendo eShop on May 13th, 2021. The game is also launching on Xbox and Playstation digital stores on June 3rd. The physical editions on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch are expected June 4th in Europe, and the 8th of June in the United States.

Monster Harvest is a pixelated farming simulator with a twist! You will find yourself starting a new life in Planimal Point, ready to develop your own farm, customize your house, craft your own furniture and make delicious jams. What’s more, you can even mutate your crops to create loyal and fierce companions to take into battle!

During the journey through Planimal Point, you will discover strange Slimes which can mutate your crops in ways they would never have imagined! Depending on the season, the Slime, or the crop you mutate, you will be able to create up to 72 different mutations!

Some crops will mutate into Planimals who are loyal mutated crops that stay by your side through thick and thin. They’ll be a key companion as you adventure across Planimal Point, taking part in thrilling turn-based battles and exploring dungeons as you try to bring down the evil SlimeCo.

Features

• Farm with mutants! Use magical slimes to mutate the crops you grow on your farm.
• Collectible Planimal companions! Some slimes mutate your crops into Planimals!
• Take your loyal companions into battle as you look to save Planimal Point from the Evil SlimeCo.
• Three unique seasons: Dry, Wet, and Dark – Strange weather and seasons shift what you can grow.
• Venture into the town of Planimal Point – Discover the people and creatures that live there, build relationships to gain discounts in stores.
• Craft dozens of items for your farm and your house.

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Bratislava, Slovakia,  March 10th, 2021 –  Ellie Teller, is a scientist who is a part of a mysterious research project in the middle of an ocean. After disastrous events, she struggles to survive and escape the tower of Arx Vaporum. The time has come to finally take her steampunk adventure on the go!

Vaporum: Lockdown, is now available on Nintendo Switch, following successful launches on PC, Mac, and Linux.

Vaporum: Lockdown is a grid-based dungeon crawler in an original steampunk setting, inspired by classics such as Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder, or the new Legend of Grimrock series. Lockdown, a prequel to critically acclaimed Vaporum, expands on everything that made the original game good.

About Vaporum: Lockdown

Vaporum: Lockdown, a prequel to the critically acclaimed Vaporum expands on the previous tale in an all-new adventure.

Follow Ellie Teller, a young scientist, working on teleportation research in a grand secret project — Arx Vaporum — hidden in the middle of a vast ocean. Experience the last moments of her normal day job before things go very wrong, forcing her to quickly adapt to omnipresent danger and to confront her own past.

Game Features

• Explore an old-school grid-based dungeon crawler with modern audiovisuals and controls.
• Forge yourself in battle with first-person combat against deadly foes with varied abilities and behaviors.
• Improved accessibility thanks to the stop-time mode and an added-on-screen directional pad, allowing players of all abilities to better engage in combat with their own style and pace.
• Experience an intriguing tale, following a fully voiced female protagonist.
• Featuring a unique gadget-based RPG system with tons of customization, loads of loot, and mind-bending puzzles and hazards that will keep you plugged into this portable steampunk adventure.
• Localized in 8 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Polish, Japanese, and Chinese.

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IRVINE, Calif. – March 19, 2021 – The cult classic has been reborn. Pre-orders are now live for Shin Megami Tensei® III Nocturne HD Remaster!

Reawaken your inner demon in a modernized version of the acclaimed ATLUS classic. Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster releases for PlayStation®4, Nintendo Switch™ and Steam® on May 25 but players who pre-order the Digital Deluxe Edition now will get access to the game four days early, on May 21.

What begins as a normal day in Tokyo turns out to be everything but, when the Conception – an ethereal apocalypse – is invoked. The remains of the world are swallowed by chaos, as a demonic revolution descends into a broken city. Caught between a battle of gods and demons, the choices you make can bring life, rebirth, or death, and determine who triumphs.

This genre-defining, infamously punishing RPG is back and now includes:

• Remastered 3D models and backgrounds
• Additional difficulty settings for players of all skill levels
• Suspend save – save your progress whenever you need!
• Voiced audio – choose between Japanese and English VO
• An alternate branch featuring Raidou Kuzunoha

This release features fixes, including patches implemented since the Japan release.

SEGA and ATLUS have also revealed the pre-order packages and bonus items for each:

Pre-order Packages

Digital Deluxe Edition – $69.99

Pre-order the Digital Deluxe Edition from PlayStation Store, the Nintendo eShop, or the Steam Store! The Digital Deluxe Edition includes:

• Full Game Download
• Exclusive access to the game four days early, on May 21
• Maniax Pack
  • Adds Dante from the Devil May Cry™ Series
• Chronicle Pack
  • Adds Raidou from the Devil Summoner Series*
• MERCIFUL Difficulty
  • Adds an easier difficulty mode
• Mercy and Expectation Map Pack
  • “Little Master’s Mercy”
  • “Master’s Expectation”
• Shin Megami Tensei BGM Pack
  • “BGM Pack 1: Shin Megami Tensei®” (2 songs)
  • “BGM Pack 2: Shin Megami Tensei® II” (2 songs)
  • “BGM Pack 3: Shin Megami Tensei® IV” (2 songs)
  • “BGM Pack 4: Shin Megami Tensei® IV: Apocalypse” (2 songs)

*Note: The Chronicle Pack is available in the base game for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch versions. The Chronicle Pack is free DLC for the Steam version only.

Standard Edition – $49.99

Pre-order Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster from digital and physical retailers now! Physical preorders can be made at these retail partners:

• Amazon
• Best Buy
• GameStop

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Kraków, Poland – March 18, 2021—Surrealist horror puzzler, DARQ: Complete Edition from Feardemic and Unfold Games is now available on Switch. DARQ: Complete Edition includes the original DARQ game as well as two DLC adventures, The Tower and The Crypt, both filled with new mysteries, puzzles, and creepy creatures.

DARQ: Complete Edition  $19.99 / £17.99 / €19.99 regionally.

Fall into the DARQ as Lloyd, a boy who finds himself trapped in a lucid nightmare. Unable to wake up, Lloyd has to face his fears and explore the darkest corners of his subconscious in order to escape to the waking world. As Lloyd, you’ll survive the nightmare through stealth and physics-defying exploration, finding objects to solve puzzles and discover the way free.

DARQ: Complete Edition comes to Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 March 25th. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One owners of DARQ: Complete Edition will be able to update to their respective next-gen editions for free.

Retail editions for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch will be available during the second quarter of 2021. The game can be played in English, Polish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Portuguese – Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Greek, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Hungarian.

About DARQ: Complete Edition

DARQ takes you on a journey through Lloyd’s dreams that quickly turn into a loop of nightmares. Each attempt to wake up sinks Lloyd deeper into his lucid, subconscious-driven dreams. Lloyd has to adapt to the new world, re-learn gravity, and stretch his mind in order to solve puzzles and sneak past the creatures guarding the corners of DARQ.

Will you decipher the true meaning of Lloyd’s dreams?

The Complete Edition includes:

• DARQ – Original Game
• The Tower DLC – Lloyd wakes up in his dreams again only to find himself in a Tower filled with many new mysteries, puzzles, and creepy creatures
• The Crypt DLC – Another loop of nightmares continues, introducing new mechanics and puzzles in a crypt filled with dark surprises

DARQ has a 94% positive score from users on Steam, a 70% positive score from critics on Metacritic, and collected 12 awards and nominations, including “Best Adventure Game” and “Best Game Music” at Chainsaw Festival 2020, “Best Game Award” at MIX / PAX West 2018, and “42nd most shared PC game of 2019” on Metacritic.

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We can’t wait to take this intergalactic adventure with all of you! Charlie and his crew of otternauts need your help to find a planet suitable for all the animals left behind from humanity’s grand exodus. In Space Otter Charlie you’ll shoot, slide, and jetpack your way through all sorts of obstacles – but watch out for ARES! That’s the Anti Rodent Elimination System trying to keep you from scavenging all the parts you need. It’s not all mechanical menaces blocking your way, you’ll need to dodge debris, exposed wiring, and dangerous jets of flame to build up an arsenal worthy of your adventures. Lazors, shark suits, and more are available with the help of your buddy Build Bot – so make sure you grab all the junk you can find! Space Otter Charlie is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB and will be available March 18th for $14.99 USD on Nintendo Switch.

Here’s what Studio Head Ed Allard of Wayward Distractions had to say about creating Space Otter Charlie:

“While I was playing around with zero-g prototypes, the fluid motion reminded me of Feeding Frenzy, which was the first game I created like a hundred years ago. I’m not the first person to realize this connection – NASA trains astronauts for spacewalks under water. I started thinking that sea creatures could probably adapt more quickly to the strangeness of Zero-G than humans could. Blend that realization with a zero-g game prototype and a long time love of sea otters, and you’ve got Space Otter Charlie.”

Unique Features

• Use all your abilities to pull off trick shots and damage enemies
• “Swim” as an otter through zero gravity and jetpack through dangerous new areas
• Enjoy local multiplayer modes with up to 3 friends
• Craft new weapons, upgrades, and wacky spacesuits to help you tackle puzzles and enemies
• Learn more about your furry friends with fun facts as you explore

I can’t wait for you to join us in orbit, let’s go for a swim in zero gravity!

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Giebelstadt, March 16th, 2021 – El Hijo – the son – literally shows in this thrilling and family-friendly outlaw action-adventure that the Wild West is no country for old men, but for a kid to conquer. With the weapons and the wit of a child, he is out to finally be reunited with his mother after tragedy struck and the family got separated.

El Hijo – A Wild West Tale is coming to Sony PlayStation 4, Microsoft Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on March 25th, 2021.

With tricky puzzles, shady monks, and dancing cowboys, playing through this gloomy, yet wholesome, adventure is sometimes quite challenging. What happens if a diversion fails and your fireworks hit the pecking chicken instead of an opponent?

About El Hijo – A Wild West Tale:

El Hijo – A Wild West Tale is a non-violent game and an exciting story of a desperate child looking for his mother. The boy sneaks past different sorts of suspicious outlaws in a series of diverse western settings.

Instead of violence, this child’s imaginative playfulness is used with the help of his toys, which serve to distract his “opponents”.

Using the shadows to his advantage is a core element of the game, as the young hero will often have to hide. Various twists on familiar mechanics are often a product of the challenging and increasingly dangerous environments that the 6-year-old must traverse to reach his ultimate goal.

Features:

Survive the Wild West with the cleverness of a young hero

• Explore dark monasteries, deserts, and frontier towns in a spaghetti-western world
• Merge with the shadows to hide from your adversaries
• Solve playfully tricky environmental puzzles
• Use a fun arsenal of tactical toys to bypass and distract diverse opponent types
• Inspire other children to find the path to freedom
• Enjoy the gripping storyline of a brave son searching for his mother

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Vienna, Austria, March 16, 2021 – Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning is out now on Nintendo Switch™! The RPG franchise coveted for its rich story and countless customization options makes its long-anticipated handheld debut. The game comes with three DLC’s: The Teeth of Naros, Legend of Dead Kel and Weapons and Armor bundles.

In addition, THQ Nordic confirmed plans for the adventures in Amalur to continue later this year with the brand new Kingdoms of Amalur expansion: Fatesworn.

Kingdoms of Amalur was created by bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion creator Ken Rolston. The game is best known for an unmatched level of player choice, including countless character customization combinations, as well as a rich story filled with a myriad of side quests that layer romance, magic, whimsy and political intrigue into the player’s primary mission. RPG fans can look forward to a myriad of new graphical upgrades and effects, as well as various gameplay feature improvements in Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. This, in addition to the inclusion of three DLC’s: The Teeth of Naros, Legend of Dead Kel and Weapons and Armor bundles. Switch players will experience an unprecedented amount of gameplay – hundreds of hours of exploration, dynamic combat and adventuring await!

About Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning

The hit RPG returns! From the minds of the bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion lead designer Ken Rolston, comes Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. Remastered with stunning visuals and refined gameplay Re-Reckoning delivers intense, customizable RPG combat inside a sprawling game world. Uncover the secrets of Amalur, from the vibrant city of Rathir to the vast region of Dalentarth to the grim dungeons of the Brigand Hall Caverns. Rescue a world torn apart by a vicious war and control the keys to immortality as the first warrior ever to be resurrected from the grips of death.

• Build the ideal character for the most intense combat, choosing from a countless combinations of skills, abilities, weapons and pieces of armor
• The revolutionary Destiny system allows you to continuously evolve your character class to your style of play
• Seamlessly integrate magical and melee attacks as you take on scores of enemies in grand fight sequences and finish them off with brutal Fateshift kills
• Extend your experience in Amalur with all DLC from the original release, from Teeth of Naros to Legend of Dead Kel and more!
• Hundreds of hours of RPG play await! Travel from the vibrant city of Rathir, to the vast region of Dalentarth, and the grim dungeons of the Brigand Hall Caverns as you uncover the secrets of Amalur!
• Explore deep levels of lore in a universe steeped in 10,000 years of fiction created by New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore
• Enjoy countless side quests rich in political intrigue, romance, sinister magic, and even whimsy – all central to the primary mission
• Rescue a world torn apart by a vicious war and control the keys to immortality as the first warrior ever to be resurrected from the grips of death
• Explore a sprawling game world hailed as having “more content than any single-player game deserves!”
• Improved graphical fidelity in Re-Reckoning

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NIS America is excited to announce that Saviors of Sapphire Wings is now available today on Nintendo Switch™ and PC for North America and will soon launch on March 19 for Europe and March 23 for Oceania.

A hero’s destiny comes to light in a world that has succumbed to ruin. Connect with comrades to bring together a formidable army and confront the Overlord of Darkness! Also, put your dungeon-delving skills to the test in Stranger of Sword City Revisited another thrilling adventure that is available together with Saviors of Sapphire Wings as a bonus game.

The “Dungeon Discovery Challenge” is still ongoing and will end on March 19 with five winners announced on March 24. Just as adventure awaits you everywhere you go in Saviors of Sapphire Wings, the next great dungeon challenge can be right in front of you! Submit a photo of a location or environment that you think would make the ultimate dungeon to win an autographed giclee + Limited Edition Nintendo Switch copy of the game.

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MADRID – March 15, 2021 – Godstrike, the boss rush bullet-hell shooter where time is everything from publisher Freedom Games and developer OverPowered Team, races to Nintendo Switch and Steam for Windows PC on Thursday, April 15, 2021, as revealed during The MIX’s Game Dev Direct showcase.

Centuries after a divine power divided itself between seven mysterious masks, chaos reigns. Now inhabiting vessels called Heralds, these seven entities spend eternity fighting each other as the world decays around them. That is, all but one. Talaal, the forgotten seventh mask, and its new Herald Yissia stand alone. Only together can they stop their siblings’ apocalyptic war.

Don the mask of Talaal and duel against devilish monstrosities in multi-stage boss battles with breakneck speed. Go in guns blazing, weaving through oncoming fire, and unleashing a torrent of heavenly abilities to overcome adversaries as quickly as possible. Time is of the essence, because in Godstrike as the seconds count down, so too does our hero’s health bar.

Time is both life and a currency. Talaal and Yissia lose valuable seconds needed to complete their mission for every hit they take. So the pair must make calculated moves before each showdown, shuffling between an ever-expanding stockpile of skills to help defend against their foes’ strengths while taking advantage of weaknesses.

Every second counts in the fight against the Heralds, but running out of time is never the end. Progress through the Campaign Mode, unlocking and setting skills with each Herald defeated while Talaal’s tale unfolds. Experiment with more than 20 skills like Spark, a flashy move making the seventh mask impervious to harm while inflicting damage of its own upon contact. Mix and match powers, experimenting with synergies and strategies, on the road to victory.

Utilize every ability in the arsenal in Arcade Mode or dare to take on the celestial beasts in Challenge mode with randomized boss orders and mysterious blessings bestowed after each fight. Strive to become the champion in Daily Challenge runs, devious randomized crusades that shift and change every 24 hours. For those feeling social, built-in Twitch features allow livestream viewers to impact the action, deciding battles’ status effects by popular vote.

“In Godstrike, time is your greatest asset and most dreaded enemy,” said Pablo Monroy, Art Director, OverPowered Team. “And like Talaal, we’re anxiously counting the seconds until our heavenly bullet-hell shooter hits Nintendo Switch and Steam on April 15!”

Godstrike launches on Nintendo Switch and Windows PC via Steam on April 15, 2021, for $14.99 with an additional 20% launch discount on both platforms. The game also includes full gamepad functionality as well as support for English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean, and Japanese language options.

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