Arcade Archives: Darwin 4078
Darwin 4078 is a shooting game released by Data East in 1986. Your ship evolves by absorbing life forms that it converts into energy, and changes shape as well as evolving new attacks and characteristics…
Arcade Archives: Darwin 4078 is an arcade developed by Data East, released 15 July 2021 on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Arcade Archives: Darwin 4078 is
Arcade Archives: Darwin 4078 is an arcade game developed by Data East and released in 2021. It was published by Hamster Corporation. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Darwin 4078 is a shooting game released by Data East in 1986. Your ship evolves by absorbing life forms that it converts into energy, and changes shape as well as evolving new attacks and characteristics. There are also mutations that do not follow the evolutionary path, and you can end up with unique ships you never would have imagined!
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Arcade Archives: Darwin 4078 launched on 15 July 2021, within three weeks of The Forgotten City, Death's Door, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! and Final Fantasy. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Forgotten City, Death's Door, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!, Final Fantasy.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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