Azimuth
Azimuth is a metroidvania game, and something of an homage to the previous greats of the genre (Super Metroid in particular). You will need to pilot your ship, explore the inside of the planet, fight enemies…
Azimuth is an adventure developed by MDSteele, released 1 March 2016 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Azimuth is
Azimuth is an adventure game developed by MDSteele and released in 2016. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
You are Major Shawna “Hopper” Jemison, a pilot in the Interstellar Patrol Force for the United Human Planets. For the past four years, the once-peaceful Joint Federation of Sentient Races (of which the Humans were one of five member species, in addition to the three SapiAIs) has been embroiled in civil war, with no end in sight. Four years ago, just before the dawn of the war, you were on patrol near the border separating Human space from that of the Trichords (a fellow member species of the JFSR), when you received an automated distress call from a remote research colony on the planetoid Zenith, home to hundreds of Human and Trichord scientists. As you set course for Zenith to assist them…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Azimuth launched on 1 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Stardew Valley, Firewatch and SuperHot.
Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Stardew Valley, Firewatch, SuperHot.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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