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Animus: Stand Alone

The world of Animus is a broken place — splintered, unreliable, fatal. Humanity crushed between a clash for untold dominance between the Absolutes, disorder, pain, and death befell mortals. All anyone could do…

17 May 2018

Animus: Stand Alone is an arcade developed by Tenbirds, released 17 May 2018 on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Animus: Stand Alone is

Animus: Stand Alone is an arcade game developed by Tenbirds and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The world of Animus is a broken place — splintered, unreliable, fatal. Humanity crushed between a clash for untold dominance between the Absolutes, disorder, pain, and death befell mortals. All anyone could do was await death, but even that was quickly snatched away from the frail hands of man. In the end, perpetual strife and madness pervaded. Dangerous shadows stalk the grounds of the ruins, waiting to pounce on any living being, to lay blame and judgement. The identity of the narrator in the introduction is ambiguous. The narrator knows of the aforementioned — the tragedy and sorrow to befall this frail world. She is removed... perhaps, reluctant. There is a sense of resignation, an…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Animus: Stand Alone launched on 17 May 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. It arrived 5 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.

Official trailer

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When did Animus: Stand Alone come out?
Animus: Stand Alone was released on 17 May 2018 for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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