Twinworld Game Reviews

Stuttgart, Germany – September 27, 2022: ININ Games is happy to announce that 80 Days & Overboard! from the award-winning studio inkle is releasing on October 28 and can now be pre-ordered from a selection of retailers. Get ready to dive into two amazing narrative adventures that will have you racing around the world in 80 days, and getting away with murder aboard an ocean liner. Available exclusively for Nintendo Switch™, this bundle will bring you many hours of captivating stories to enjoy – at any time and anywhere.

80 Days & Overboard! consists of two of the most beloved games from inkle, honored many times by critics around the world, to be released for the first time ever as a boxed retail bundle. Pre-orders are now widely available at participating retailers. For more information and to pre-order, visit the ININ Games website.

80 Days

In this steampunk retelling of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days, players set out on a journey to circumnavigate the globe. Playing as Passepartout, long-suffering valet to Phileas Fogg, you must set the route, manage the budget, oversee the health and well-being of your master, and get back to London before the clock runs out. The game has been critically-acclaimed and was one of the best games of 2014, according to Time Magazine!

Features:

• Visit over 170 bespoke cities on your journey around the world.
• Discover creative ways to travel – by train, airship, moving city, ice-walker, hydrofoils and much more…
• Lose yourself in a richly imagined, diverse alternative-history steampunk world created by award-winning writers Meg Jayanth and Jon Ingold.
• Experience a unique journey with thousands of choices for endless possibilities and replayability.
• Enjoy striking Art Deco-styled visuals by Jaume Illustration.
• 80 Days is not the end – can you do it in less?

Overboard!

Your husband has been murdered! There’s just one problem – you killed him. Now you have eight hours to cover up your crime and get away without being caught. Frame other passengers, conceal the evidence, and figure out how to get away with it before the time runs out in this Writers’ Guild and Apple Design award-winning game.

Features:

• NPCs have their own agendas and remember everything they see and hear.
• Choose every line and every action. Go where you want, when you want.
• Some characters are friendly, and some are out to get you. Who will you befriend? And who will you betray?
• You only have eight hours to escape justice, and the clock is always ticking.
• Play once for a thrill, or multiple times to uncover all the secrets and achieve the ideal ending.

Limited Editions:

Collectors and inkle enthusiasts also have the chance to pre-order exclusive, limited editions of 80 Days & Overboard! at the Gamesrocket store, with many fantastic collectible items.

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27 SEPTEMBER, 2022 – The fun-filled, action-packed adventure Trifox will launch next month, publisher Big Sugar is delighted to announce.

The furry escapade begins 13th October on Nintendo Switch, and 14th October for Xbox and PC (Steam, Epic, GOG and other PC storefronts). PS4 and PS5 versions will follow shortly after (exact date TBC). Trifox will be priced $19.99 and be available with a 10% launch discount for a limited time.

The debut game from Belgian developer, Glowfish Interactive, Trifox takes inspiration from the team’s own childhood gaming favourites, such as Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter, and Ratchet & Clank.

An action-adventure with a variety of ways to play, Trifox‘s titular hero is a fox on a mission: to retrieve his stolen TV remote! A multi-talented mammal, Trifox can use the skills of three different character types – Warrior, Mage, and Engineer. Each has its own unique set of class-based abilities which can be mixed-and-matched, allowing players to create a wily protagonist with a tailor-made moveset.

About the game

Trifox is a colourful and cartoonish action-adventure featuring a phenomenal fox with a multitude of talents! After his home is attacked and his TV remote stolen, Trifox sets out in pursuit of the mysterious looters in an action-packed adventure. Use magic, might, and marvelous gadgets to outfox foes across four danger-filled worlds as you fight your way to a final showdown at Villain HQ!

Key features

• Three different classes: Wield a giant hammer as a Warrior! Master magic and mystery as a Mage! Use a backpack full of gadgets as an Engineer!
• Mix-and-match styles: Customise your Trifox by combining different class-based abilities! Want to cast spells and fire a Gatling Gun? No problem!
• 30 abilities to unlock: Collect and spend coins to gain new skills, such as Spike Slam, Shield Bubble, Guided Missile, and many more!
• Four worlds to beat: Fight hordes of enemies, traverse platforming pitfalls, overcome environmental puzzles, and battle big angry bosses!
• A modern retro adventure: A new and fresh experience designed to evoke the spirit of classic 3D platformers!

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September 23rd, 2022 – Indie publisher Ratalaika Games, together with Indie developer Kikai Digital, join forces and announce the up and coming release of Caffeine: Victoria’s Legacy, a choice rich, fantasy visual novel, set in a punk cyber victorian alternative reality, where coffee is all that matters!

Out on the 30th September for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Microsoft Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch, priced at €17.99 / $17.99, this is one to check out!

Setting the scene

The backdrop story and focus to Caffeine: Victoria’s Legacy is about Taka, who, while trying to investigate the whereabouts of his mother, is mysteriously sent to a parallel world where caffeine has magical powers and technological advancement is set still at the age of steam. Taka has lost all memories of his past and his only memory is a little coffee house in the corner of an alley, where his parents happily brewed coffee and served customers from all walks of life. Whilst on a plane journey to his mum’s homeland, he mysteriously falls off the plane and finds himself in the city of Victoria, staring at a coffee house named ‘Taka Coffee House’, the same coffee house that he remembered so fondly during his childhood…

Caffeine: Victoria’s Legacy is an exciting visual novel where you have to make choices along the way to uncover the true mystery behind Taka’s history and the workings of this world. Depending on the choices you make throughout the game, you may reach the individual good and bad endings for each of the 4 romanceable characters. After completing their routes, the true ending will unlock which goes on to uncover the secrets behind the whole story. With its unique story full of plot twists and intricate world building, those who stay till the end of the journey will be rewarded handsomely.

When caffeine is consumed, it gives the drinker powers which they call ‘Caffeine’. This makes coffee beans and other caffeinated products like tea a valuable commodity, making the city which Taka ends up in one of the richest in the world. But as the story progresses, it’s also pointed out that with new technological advancements coming up, the appeal of caffeine will diminish and thus there is a danger that those who rely on caffeine powers will become irrelevant.

We won’t spoil things by giving too much detail so delve into this enticing story and see for yourself!

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Welcome to Car Mechanic Pinball – repair and pimp up cars for your clients! The more money you earn by flipping cars, the more you can invest back in your workshop to improve it. All of that nicely packed as an old school arcade pinball game with a voxel look and feel!

Car Mechanic Pinball features include:

• Fast paced arcade gameplay,

• Easy to grasp pinball basics with workshop management mechanics,

• Earn money to improve your workshop for car upgrades,

• Tons of cars to flip,

• Hit the mechanics to fix cars,

• Visit chassis, wheels, body, engine workshops and upgrade relevant car elements,

• Fuel up and drift around!

Car Mechanic Pinball in now available on Nintendo Switch for $4.99/€4.99!

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Stuttgart, Germany – September 22, 2022: ININ Games is happy to announce the official release date for Hidden Through Time: Definite Edition. This charming point & click puzzle game will launch on November 11th on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 (PS4) and can be pre-ordered from a selection of European retailers right now! Together with the developers at Rogueside, a brand-new trailer is unveiled, showing off all the five DLCs included in the Definite Edition.

In the base game, you’ll find yourself in the Stone Age and witness the course of history as you click your way through Ancient Egypt, the Middle Ages and the lawless Wild West in beautiful, hand-drawn levels. The Definite Edition is definitely a must-buy since it has wilder and more exotic adventures, in five DLCs, two of which are brand-new.

The Viking Tales DLC will send you and Clicky on a quest through Norse mythology to discover all of the hidden treasures and myths the Vikings have kept from us.

Past the temples on Mount Fuji, through the rice fields around the hills, secrets lay hidden all across Legends of Japan, where you’ll experience the wonderful firework festivals and learn about the samurai traditions in their dojos.

In Roads to Rome you will hear the roar of the arena, march into battle with the troops and earn the favor of the gods, while you discover the secrets hidden in the amazing architecture, intriguing mythology and powerful emperors of Rome!

Plow through the swamps, climb the highest mountain peaks and behold the greatness of Tenochtitlan. Unveil all the secrets that lay hidden within the most powerful Mesoamerican kingdom of all time in this newly released DLC: Aztec Rituals!

Finally, set sail for the adventure of a lifetime: weigh anchor, haul wind and traverse the briny deep looking for all that’s shiny and gold in the last released DLC: Pirate Treasures!

Every DLC includes 10 new levels and features tons of themed objects and characters, which will be in the level editor upon purchase! In the editor, you can create your own levels and share them in the cloud. Here you can also discover, play and rate levels created by other hobby developers around the world, which works across all platforms!

Who said that learning about our history can’t be fun? Pre-order Hidden Through Time: Definite Edition and embark on a beautiful journey with sceneries that expand in size and difficulty as players progress!

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Paris, September 21th 2022 – The time has come to spread your wings! Embark for a journey like no other in a magical universe where you’ll become best friend with the cutest dragons in My Universe – My Baby Dragon, coming out December 1st on Nintendo Switch and digitally on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. In North America, the game will be released in retail on December 13th!

As a new dragon care taker, you’ll be in charge of your very own nursery. Whatever its element (water, air, fire or earth) your baby dragon will need a lot of love and attention to grow and flourish. You’ll have to be attentive to their needs in order to provide them with their favorite treats. Watch them hatch and help them grow their magic skills, showering them with cuddles and sweets until they take off for the Dragon School. Only the best care takers capable of increasing their magic knowledge will gain the dragon’s trust and maybe even become their friend!

Game’s details:

• Hatch the cutest dragon babies – Put your hands on the coveted dragon eggs, hatch them by providing a warm and cozy environment with the help of smooth and cute items. Each dragon is bound to one of the four natural element, provisioning to their specific needs will be key to help them grow. It will be up to you to find which family each dragon belongs to hatch it and help it grow!
• Teach your dragon to fly and learn magic! – As a dragon care taker, you will be tasked with their development, including teaching them all the tricks they need to know. Train them to use their wings as well as their magic skills, preparing them for the dragon school!
• Earn your degree and become the best dragon guardian! – The more dragon you discover, the better you’ll get as a care taker! Raise all kinds of dragons and collect badges to earn your official dragon guardian diploma!

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Hamburg, Germany, September 20th, 2022 – Publisher Daedalic Entertainment and developer Skirmish Mode Games are happy to announce that following the positive reception of the 1.0 release on PC, their strategy-focused war game, Warpips, is ready to hit the front-lines on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch starting October 12th. Get ready to manage resources, deploy units and take control of the battlefield, all from the comfort of your couch!

For those who skipped basic training, Warpips is a streamlined strategy war game that will have you deploying battle units in real-time against AI-controlled opponents. Each level follows a tug-of-war structure where the objective is to reach and destroy the enemy’s base. As long as you have the resources to send them to the battlefield, you can deploy units from a diverse roster which includes different types of infantry, ground and aerial vehicles, and different types of tactical gear.

Warpips is set apart by its approachability, as it is easy to pick up and understand, yet the intricacies of its systems will give players more than enough to spend hours finding optimal plans of engagement and become master strategists. Unlock branching skill trees and find the perfect synergy between units in a series of ever-changing battles in beautifully rendered 2.5D environments.

Key Features:

• Fast streamlined combat. Focus on the big picture; no complex micromanaging. Each round lasts between 10-20 minutes. Easy to learn, hard to master.
• Randomized battles. Randomly generated battles. Different each time you play. Lots of replayability.
• Deep strategy. Choose complementary unit synergies. Infinite strategic combinations. Fully unlockable upgrade tree.

Tight combat. Spawn infantry, vehicles, airplanes and helicopters. Call down airstrikes, missile attacks and artillery. Units take cover and respond intelligently to their situation. Everything explodes!

Warpips is already available on Windows PC and will launch on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch on October 12th, 2022.

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20 SEPTEMBER, 2022 – Indie publisher Digerati is pumped to share the news of a brand new signing for its 2023 roster – Super Buff HD will launch next year (exact date TBC) for PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. Digerati’s partnership with the game’s developer, Buffcorp, was announced with a debut trailer during the highly prestigious Realms Deep showcase over the weekend. The trailer is available to watch below.

A skate-surf-FPS designed with high-mobility and low-expectation in mind, Super Buff HD is the creation of Egypt-based developer, Buffcorp, aka Omar Samir. Lead programmer and self-proclaimed supreme leader on the project, Super Buff HD is Samir’s first ‘mostly solo’ game, having worked previously as a contract dev on what he describes as “dirty deeds done dirt cheap.”

Helping Samir on Super Buff HD are two associates he currently regards as “good friends” – Cayden, who handles all the sounds in the game and occassionally helps out with “some art and level stuff,” and Christian, who Samir describes as “a programming prodigy” and “basically the next John Carmack.”

Asked to provide a few words for this press release about why he wants to make Super Buff HD, the inspirations behind it and so on, Samir promised “I’ll come up with something after a few rounds of Halo.” But he never did.

About the game

Super Buff HD is a fast-paced skate-surf-FPS.

The year is 202020. It’s wild. All the buff dudes have turned on society. STOP THEM.

Dash, bounce, grind, blast, shred, shoot, and soar through a fever dream world of unhinged weirdness. Defeat all the buff dudes. Get a high score. Be a winner. Home for dinner.

Key Features

• MOBILITY TO MAKE YOU FEEL SUPER POWERED: Levels are playgrounds you can jump, shred, and bounce all over. Grind between rails. Body-surf on enemies. Use water jets, trampolines, poop fountains and pretty much anything to launch yourself heavenwards for huge air.
• MIGHTY WEAPONS TO KEEP THE BUFF AT BAY: Choose from a modest armory of killy toys, each with dual firing modes and unique functionality. From a trusty hammer that always makes its way back to you no matter how far you throw it, to a revolving potato cannon with backup basketball bombs.
• A WORLD OF POOP AND PURE IMAGINATION: Your battle against the buff takes place across 20+ levels of strangeness. Levels are variously and hilariously themed, such as mushroom, street, dinosaur-cowboy, sci-fi, mall, and sewage (don’t fall in the brown stuff).
• HIGH SCORES FOR SELF-GRATIFICATION: Measure the success of your buff-battering performances by racking up ker-azy high scores. Build and keep your multiplier going for even higher scores. Pull on your big boy pants and put some thunder in your number.
• TOTALLY NUTS, OVER BUFFED BOSSES: Face off against a freakshow of good and pumped boss dudes. Topple a tower block with bulging biceps. Smack down a sword-wielding trashcan titan. Make mincemeat out of a belly-flopping mushroom king.

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Shiver me timbers, there be plundering ahead! Will Winn Games’ pirate-theme online multiplayer brawler Plunder Panic is available now on Windows PC/Mac, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One and Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and Steam Deck with full cross-platform play.

Hoist the sails, ready your cannons, and head into battle with up to 12 players (locally or online) in this retro-style arcade beat-em-up that pits pixelated pirates in quick, round-based matches. Two teams of up to six pirates must go all hands on deck and face off against each other, utilizing a variety of weapons, enchanted items, and power-ups. Only one team can claim victory! Will it be ye, ya scallywag?

Plunder Panic takes inspiration from couch co-op games of old, and blends it with frantic, piracy-filled matches on the high seas. Rival teams will anchor their ships on opposite sides of the same island, and let the c-arrr-nage begin! Only one crew can remain victorious by plundering enough gold into their treasure chest, scuttling the other crew’s ship, or defeating the rival crew’s captain!

Key features of Plunder Panic include:

• Pirate Brawlin’ — Fast-paced action–arcade gameplay with elements of platforming, combat, and strategic play. Teams can coordinate to either collect enough gold, sink an enemy ship with cannons or an explosive rowboat, or defeat the enemy captain.
• Multiplayer Madness — Form a crew of up to 6 pirates to compete against your frenemies. Players can play local couch co-op, invite online friends to private lobbies and also go into matchmaking!
• Become a Pirate Legend — Multiple win conditions offer pirate crews different gameplay strategies. And Plunder Panic features several exciting game modes, including A Pirate’s Life, Conquest, and Reinforcements to build your pirate’s infamy.
• Modify-arrs — Matches can be customized with modifiers which change up the game rules dramatically. Randomized Captains per round? No captains at all? What about all pirates having a pair of never-ending Seagull Wings? Anything and everything can happen!
• Swords, Explosives, and… Squids? — Chaotic items that can be wielded by players can drop into a match at any time. From weapons such as the Blunderbuss, Molotov cocktails, and dynamite to play-enhancing items such as pirate punch and enchanted idols; even squids can be used as weapons to ink pirates (the Kraken doesn’t take kindly to this, though).
• A Visual Treasure — Pirates compete across a sea of treasure-laden, visually spectacular islands. A charming pixel-art aesthetic makes the game fun and approachable for players of all ages.
• Addictive Beats — The exhilarating retro soundtrack evokes the days of yore, where the pop hits were all sea shanties!

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16th September 2022 – Indie publisher Ratalaika Games, together with Start Warp and Meridian4, today release The Dark Prophecy – a 2D pixel art, Point & Click, 90s retro inspired adventure game. Coming on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Microsoft Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch, priced at $9.99 / €9.99.

Features & Facts:

• explore the environment and find solutions to move the plot forward.
• try to touch everything that you meet on the way.
• start dialogues with other characters, choose answer options in dialogues,
• make the main character go somewhere, and let the story unfold.
• use items from your inventory on environmental items or on each other.
• solve puzzles and become entwined in the story.
• great replayability, with loads to see and do
• visit 18 locations – stunning, interesting and enchanting.

A mediaeval adventure story with plenty to do, explore and interact with, bringing back the best and ‘feel’ of the heydays of the 90s gaming scene.

A Brilliant spiritual successor to the classic 90s adventure games!

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