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London, UK. – March 5th, 2021 – Rising Star Games are proud to announce Harvest Moon: One World is available now across Europe for Nintendo Switch. The game is rated PEGI 3 and USK 0 and is available across Europe physically and digitally for £39.99 / €49.99*.

“Harvest Moon: One World is our largest Harvest Moon game yet,” said Hiro Maekawa, President and CEO of Natsume. “With five different lands inspired by real life places, mystical Harvest Wisps, innovative tools that help you quickly travel and take your barn with you, and new rare and exotic animals, this is truly a new world for players to explore. Players will ride camels across the deserts of Pastilla, venture deep into the snowy mountains of Salmiakki, and even visit a volcano near the cozy mountain town of Lebkuchen!”

Can you imagine a world without cabbage, tomatoes, or even carrots? Believe it or not, that’s the world you’ll find yourself in at the beginning of Harvest Moon: One World, as the Harvest Goddess, the queen of crops herself, has vanished…

However, before the Harvest Goddess disappeared from this world, she imbued the tiny Harvest Wisps with the knowledge of various seeds, thus ensuring the various fruits and vegetables of the world would not be lost. Using the power given to these Harvest Wisps, you’ll unlock various seeds as you progress through the game! But the Harvest Wisps can be tricky to find, as they all appear at different times and places. You’ll need to use your noggin to make sure you seek out as many of them as you can!

• Explore five unique and colorful areas: the sprawling grasslands of Calisson, the gorgeous beaches of Halo Halo, the searing desert heat of Pastilla, the cozy hills of Lebkuchen, and the snowy mountains of Salmiakki!
• Choose your main character and meet all of the five handsome bachelors and five beautiful bachelorettes, each with their own unique personality and backstory!
• Raise and keep animals such as cows, sheep, goats, and even reindeer!
• Use your Expando-Farm to easily travel from one area to another!

Season Pass & Four DLC Packs

The farming fun continues in four DLC packs! Interior Design & Tool Upgrade Pack and the Season Pass are available today. Far East Adventure Pack, Precious Pets Pack, and Mythical Wild Animals Pack will be launching later this Spring.

Live your best life! Customize the interior of your house with five fabulous designs! You will also be able to upgrade your hoe, watering can, hammer, axe, and fishing rod an additional level, making growing crops, fishing, and mining easier and faster! This pack includes an additional level for all of your tools and five Different Interior Design Sets: Farm, Castle, Steampunk, Spaceship, and Starlight!

The Interior Design & Tool Upgrade Pack is available NOW!

Purchase the Season Pass today to receive access to all four DLC’s for a special price*. DLC’s launching after March 5th will automatically update in-game on their release dates.

Source: PR Email

STOCKHOLM – March 4, 2021 – Everhood, the unconventional RPG adventure from Foreign Gnomes where nothing is as it seems, explores the boundaries of existence and rocks out to musical battles on Nintendo Switch and Steam for Windows PC today.

Welcome to Everhood, a bizarre realm located on the edges of space and time. Its inhabitants are a peculiar lot. These otherworldly entities spend their days wandering labyrinthine castles. Clubbing and board games are popular pastimes here, as well. That is, until a gnome steals an arm from Red, the wooden doll. A seemingly simple quest to reclaim it begins to pull at the fraying threads of this strange world, unraveling a mystery and reality in the process.

Go on a trip through the doors of perception. Explore fantastical environments in the hunt for the pinched limb. Play hide and seek with animate mushrooms in the forest, win carnival prizes, and race go-karts against colorful characters like mages, sentient save points, robots, and vampires. Learn about Red’s past and come ever-closer to finding the Absolute Truths of the universe.

But knowledge often comes at a cost. Some of Everhood’s eclectic residents aren’t content to let Red roam the realm freely. Face off against challengers ranging from multi-legged monsters to brothers who run a plank-selling business and the fearsome Gold Pig in musical battles. Avoid incoming attacks by moving, grooving, and leaping out of harm’s way while jamming out to bespoke battle themes as varied as the inhabitants of this curious community.

Red’s journey is teeming with secrets and world-alerting revelations. As Everhood’s true nature begins to appear, adventurers will make decisions that impact Red’s role in the fate of everyone – and everything – the doll encounters. Experience a twisting story and overcome dance-based trials across five difficulty modes, a range of accessibility options, and an unlockable New Game Plus feature that calls into question everything that’s come before it.

“Everhood began as a side project between my co-developer Jordi Roca and me,” said Chris Nordgren, co-founder, Foreign Gnomes. “Since then, it’s evolved into the strange, vibrant, and mysterious game that we are so proud to share with everyone on Nintendo Switch and Steam today. Sign the contact, sell your soul, and join us in Everhood!”

Everhood is now available on Nintendo Switch for $14.99 and Steam for $9.99. It features English, French, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), and Japanese language options. The PC version launches with beta mod support in the form of a fully-featured custom battle editor. Additional updates will be available following launch.

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4 March, 2021 – Indie publisher Digerati is thrilled to announce it’s bringing Signs of the Sojourner to consoles. The critically acclaimed narrative card game will be available to download 17 March on PS4, 18 March for Nintendo Switch, and 19 March on Xbox One. All versions will have a 20% launch discount (PS+ subs only on PS4).

The debut title from developer Echodog Games, Signs of the Sojourner was released last year for Windows and macOS. Praised for its heartfelt story and card-based conversations, Signs of the Sojourner featured on Game of the Year lists from various sites and channels, including Get Indie Gaming, Giant Bomb, Paste Magazine, and Vice. It also won Edge magazine’s ‘Artisan Award’, and was nominated for ‘Best Storytelling’ at the Golden Joystick Awards.

“It’s been so exciting to see the reception!” says Dyala Kattan-Wright, game designer and founder of Echodog Games.

“One of our goals was to explore themes that we hoped would be highly relatable to most folks–leaving home and returning changed, exploring identity and shifting relationships. It’s been amazing and humbling to see how people relate to different aspects of the game and use it as a lens to examine or reflect on their own experiences.

“And now we’re excited to bring Signs of the Sojourner to a wider audience, and to see what decks and relationships players develop during their journeys in the game.”

About the game

Signs of the Sojourner is a narrative card game about connecting with people. Your deck is your character, reflecting your experiences and shaping your relationships.

You take over your mother’s store after her death, traveling to diverse locations to acquire goods for the shop. Along the way, you’ll encounter optimistic stories, compassionate characters, and delightful surprises in a world where climate change has made life hard.

Key features

• Forge new friendships, rivalries, and connections through card game conversations
• Play cards to match the tone and perspective of your partner or try to sell your own point of view
• Make difficult choices – The consequences shape your deck and every conversation that follows
• Meet unforgettable characters and grow alongside them
• Five new characters introduced for the console versions (PC and macOS versions will be updated with the new content to coincide with the console releases)
• Explore the world, but also explore what it means to return home
• Find rare and useful goods to aid your town
• Many possible endings

Source: PR Email

Boulder, Colorado, February 25, 2021—Today, Publisher Serenity Forge, alongside developers Skeleton Crew Studios and Explosm Games have announced that Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalyse — the first point-and-click-adventure game in a “tragilogy” (trilogy of tragedy) filled with dark comedy, drama, and weirdness — will launch on Nintendo Switch and Steam on March 11, 2021, for $19.99, with a 10% for the first week. Preorders will be available starting March 4, 2021, through Nintendo eShop.

In Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalyse, players follow the adventures of Cooper “Coop” McCarthy, as he does normal high school things, like trying to find a prom date and doing his best to avoid getting killed by bullies all while trying not to trigger an apocalyptic event.

First announced in 2017 and brought to life through Kickstarter, Freakpocalyse is the first chance for fans to experience and interact with the universe from the much-loved Cyanide & Happiness animated shorts, webcomics, and card games.

Key Features:

• All the fun of a Cyanide & Happiness animated short, all packed into a video game!
• Fully voiced dialogue featuring special guest voice actors including Arin Hanson (Game Grumps), Jessica Calvello, YMS Adum, Rice Pirate Mick, and more.
• The first-ever chance to interact with fan favorites from the Cyanide & Happiness universe, including Ted Bear, Shark Dad, Señor Cleanfist, and more.
• The first installment in the Freakpocalypse “tragilogy” – a trilogy of games telling the complete tragic & chaotic story.
• An incredibly interactive world with more than 100 bizarre characters and countless objects to look at, touch, and talk to, along with unlockable costumes to find and wear.
• No need to know the back story— Freakpocalyse gives long-time fans a lot to look forward to, but is also the perfect introduction for anyone new to the franchise.
• Cinematic cutscenes and a completely original soundtrack.

Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalyse will be available in French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and English on Nintendo eShop for Switch and on Steam for $19.99, with a 10% for the first week, and is rated M by ESRB.

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TOKYO – February 25, 2021 – After receiving spectacular reviews in Japan, Gnosia, the critically acclaimed sci-fi social deduction RPG from developer Petit Depotto and publisher PLAYISM, is sneaking its way into the West on Nintendo Switch, launching on March 4. Pre-orders for this visual novel adventure start on February 25 on the Nintendo eShop, available in North America, Europe and Australia.

Gnosia is a thrilling and unique single-player social deduction game combined with visual novel, RPG, and mystery elements. Set on a drifting spaceship, the player faces a mysterious and deadly threat known as the “Gnosia”. Each night on the spaceship someone is put into a cold sleep in an effort to eliminate the Gnosia. Players must use their best judgement while choosing between 30 different commands to figure out which crew member – or crew members – could be Gnosia in disguise.

Gameplay consists of mostly visual novel-like commands, featuring a unique art style. Each round – or “Loop” – brings new characters, dialogues, and scenes, allowing the player to build 6 traits (sense, charisma, logic, charm, stealth, and performance). As the player meets new characters, new skills are learned and carried over to subsequent game loops. The real Gnosia changes in every playthrough, and as an exciting twist, sometimes the player will find themselves cast as the Gnosia.

Key Features:

• Repeatedly play through loops of up to 15 minutes long, triggering special events to unravel plot mysteries in its particularly galactic narrative
• Engage with interesting and eclectic characters with unique personalities, experience randomly triggered events that are unique to each person and develop strong relationships
• Players can customize their game to add up to 14 additional characters to make the game more intense
• Beautiful and unique art style, featuring 2D illustrations of anime-type characters

“We are so excited to get to collaborate with Petit Depotto to bring this long-awaited English adaptation of Gnosia to Switch,” explains Shunji Mizutani, Executive Producer at Playism. “The reviews the game received were overwhelmingly positive in Japan, and we can’t wait for players in the West to experience the thrill of finding – or failing to find – the Gnosia.”

Originally released in June 2019 for the PS Vita, Gnosia was initially available only in Japan. On March 4, 2021, Gnosia will be made available as a digital download from the Nintendo Switch eShop in North America, Europe and Australia for $24.99USD. Pre-orders start on February 25, 2021.

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Stuttgart, Germany – February 25th 2021 – Strictly Limited Games is pleased to announce that Darius Cozmic Revelation for Nintendo Switch will include the very unique Nintendo GameBoy-version of SAGAIA as the third entry in the collection!

The Darius brand is synonymous with some of the most acclaimed and iconic shoot-em-ups ever created. Darius is a series of horizontally scrolling shooting games which began with the original arcade release in 1986. TAITO’s Darius Cozmic Revelation features in addition to SAGAIA the legendary G-DARIUS HD and the brand new DARIUSBURST: Another Chronicle EX+ that will delight fans of this genre and capture the hearts of those new to the Darius experience.

Having previously been released on Nintendo’s Game Boy in Japan 1991, SAGAIA is a Switch exclusive and will be a physical on-card version that will only be available through the Strictly Limited Games Darius Cozmic Revelation editions for Nintendo Switch. This title contains features and elements from both, DARIUS and DARIUS II, whilst adding its own additions into the mix. Eight levels of pure pixelated beauty in this handheld version of one of the greatest shoot ‘em up series ever created.

Featuring remodelled and improved editions of iconic shmups, G-DARIUS HD is a remastered port of the original release G-Darius (1997) which paved the way from the transition between 2D to 3D with great success. Superb boss battles, along with a brilliant soundtrack, recreated an unsurpassed arcade experience with even an option to play the game in low-resolution just like the original arcade version.

A new revision of  Dariusburst AC entitled DARIUSBURST: Another Chronicle EX+ makes an appearance – it’s now 10 years since the original version and the original team, who are highly motivated, are still proudly working together on this version. The DARIUSBURST series started in 2009 on PSP, with gorgeous 3D graphics and additional features to expand the arcade version from 2010. The game is developed by Pyramid and will not only include features of the arcade version of “Another Chronicle EX”, but there will also be new features like a replay mode and new levels.

Darius Cozmic Revelation for Nintendo Switch is only available for preorder at the Strictly Limited Games store and comes in two editions: The Collector’s Edition and the Limited Edition.

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NIS America is excited to announce The Caligula Effect 2 will be coming to PS4 and Nintendo Switch in Fall 2021! Dive into a reality-warping adventure from scenario-writer Tadashi Satomi and director Takuya Yamanaka in this upcoming RPG title.

The Limited Edition, available for preorder on the NISA Online Store, contains:

• The Caligula Effect 2 for PS4™ or Nintendo Switch™
• “The Artwork of The Caligula Effect 2” Hardcover Art Book
• “Regret and χ Vocal Collection” 2-Disc Soundtrack
• Tatefushi Academy School Bag
• “Regret and χ Vocal Collection” Digital Download + 3 Bonus Limited Edition-Exclusive Tracks
• Tatefushi Academy Student ID
• Collector’s Box

About The Caligula Effect 2:

A virtuadoll named Regret has created the world of Redo in order to save people from their past regrets by unknowingly imprisoning them in a simulation. However, this “paradise” is shaken to the core when a virtual idol named χ breaks into Regret’s virtual reality and restores a high school student’s memories of the real world. In order to escape Redo, they re-establish the Go-Home Club, a resistance group that seeks to fight against Regret and her enforcers, the Obbligato Musicians.

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Drowning Monkey Games has anticipated this day for two years and today is the day! Castle Kong puts the Retro into Retro gaming… A true homage to the good ole days. Castle Kong is out today on Nintendo Switch for $6.99 / £5.99 GBP / €6.99. ‘You’ may not get it, but many have already!

Put simply, Castle Kong is a celebration of the classic Nintendo arcade game, Donkey Kong, recreating the same kind of looks, retro graphical world and stages, while presenting completely new addictive challenges that were presented in bygone times. 22 levels traversing four different stages, with just 3 lives to complete your epic quest. Oh yes, and there’s prizes.

But there is more………… A game with fringe bonuses!

Give it a go….. Why not?

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Stuttgart, Germany – February 24th, 2021 – Strictly Limited Games are pleased to announce their collaboration with Tanuki Creative Studio, a Netherlands based developer, on their forthcoming title Jitsu Squad. Gamers can pledge on Kickstarter to secure a digital or physical copy of the game for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PC or Xbox One. The campaign was fully funded in only 24 hours and is now bringing an even bigger Jitsu Squad experience to the backers with Stretch Goals.

In addition and independently from the mentioned Kickstarter campaign, Strictly Limited Games will create some awesome Limited Editions of Jitsu Squad down the road and is really looking forward to doing so! Maybe a collaboration with ININ Games will be on the cards too. So please stay tuned as this awesome game comes to life.

Fast-paced brawler action and wacky battles
Jitsu Squad is a fast-paced cartoony action brawler where players will experience the ultimate wacky chaotic battles! It has the freedom & accessibility of games like Streets of Rage and Final Fight, but with the speed, intensity and frenetic energy of games such as Guilty Gear, Marvel vs Capcom II & Super Smash Brothers, Jitsu Squad has to be seen to be believed!

Free PC demo available
For those who are very curious about the game, Tanuki Creative Studio have released a playable demo that’s available for download, so that everyone can experience the action before pledging!

Awesome assist characters
Did we mention that there’s some crossover assists from some well-known characters? During battles an assist icon might spawn from an enemy or treasure chest. An assist character will appear for a short period of time and will help the player to defeat his enemies:

• Maximilian Dood: The godfather of the fighting game community and his dog Benny jump right into the action to unleash their crushing ‘Hype Beam’.
• Yooka-Laylee: The protagonists from the Yooka-Laylee series developed by Playtonic Games are here to help the player with their ‘Reptile Rush’.
• Look Mom, I’m in the game: Backers who pledge this tier will become an assist character in Jitsu Squad!

Special Features:

• Epic Super Specials!
• 100+ chain-combos!
• Powerful in-game character transformations!
• Awesome crossover assist characters!
• Run or Dash! No walking allowed in this game!
• A wide variety of unique enemies and stages!
• Up to 4-player co-op fun!
• Unique secondary weapons for each playable character!
• Upgrade system to level up your character!

Source: PR Email

Luxembourg, February 24th, 2021 – Pixel Games has returned with some more heartwarming news: True love is the sweetest thing, but the exclusive 20% pre-order discounts coming to the Microsoft Store and Nintendo Switch eShop might be even sweeter.

It’s an absolutely heartbreaking hairy-tale if ever there was one…

Sir Lovelot is on a quest to find the love of his life, and only you can help him avoid the cold sting of loneliness (but let’s be real: solitude is great!). Join him in a wacky precision platformer in which he’ll realize that finding love isn’t as easy as he thinks! Collects gifts, avoiding treacherous hazards and fight off weird creatures, all in the best possible time! It’s an absolutely heartbreaking hairy-tale if ever there was one…

What’s not to love about the platformer of your dreams…

• Love is a battlefield, and you’re about to find out why, as you take on devious challenges, in over 40 handcrafted levels
• Take on rivals to your affections as you face unsavory nasties who roam the land looking to end your journey in heartbreak
• The road to romance is rarely straightforward; discover secrets and special treasure that will surely surprise your future paramour
• Serenade your player 2 with a beautiful soundtrack by Alexander Falinski, known for his talent on Cut the Rope, LightSlinger Heroes, Tap the Frog…
• Sir Lovelot is fluent in 14 love languages: English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese – Traditional, Luxembourgish

Source: PR Email