Battery Jam is an arcade developed by Halseo, released 17 May 2018 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Battery Jam is
Battery Jam is an arcade game developed by Halseo and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Battery Jam is a local multiplayer game of competitive territorial mayhem coming to Steam Early Access in January! Use the boombox and our patented rocket punch to smash your opponents, capture their tiles, and dominate the arena! Choose one of four Jammers and compete to have the most tiles at the end of every match! Take on your friends in free-for-all or team mode across four stages on two levels, with more on the way!"
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Battery Jam holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 26% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Battery Jam launched on 17 May 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch'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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