Bartlow's Dread Machine
An artifact from the past returns in Bartlow's Dread Machine, a game from the dawn of the Electric Age. Dread Machine is a dual stick arcade shooter with single player and couch co-op modes, six scintillating…
Bartlow's Dread Machine is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Beep Games, released 29 September 2020 on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Bartlow's Dread Machine is
Bartlow's Dread Machine is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Beep Games and released in 2020. It is available on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
An artifact from the past returns in Bartlow's Dread Machine, a game from the dawn of the Electric Age. Dread Machine is a dual stick arcade shooter with single player and couch co-op modes, six scintillating game worlds and a cast of improbable monsters and characters.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Bartlow's Dread Machine holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 66% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Bartlow's Dread Machine launched on 29 September 2020, within three weeks of Hades, Hades, Genshin Impact and Mafia: Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Hades, Hades, Genshin Impact, Mafia: Definitive Edition.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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