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Case: Animatronics

Control of the police department is in the hands of anonymous hacker. All exits are locked. Electricity is off. Metallic thumps are getting closer. Will you survive, Detective Bishop?

30 3 August 2016

Case: Animatronics is an adventure developed by Aleson, released 3 August 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android.

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What Case: Animatronics is

Case: Animatronics is an adventure game developed by Aleson and released in 2016. It was published by Eastasiasoft. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You're a detective - John Bishop who carries out his investigation till the late night. After a strange dream and a mysterious call from an old “friend” Bishop starts to notice that something is wrong. The police department remains without electricity and is plunged into total darkness, a system has been hacked and all exits are locked. But that is not the real problem. Someone is following you, someone red-eyed and metal. You know them better as animatronics.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Case: Animatronics holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 38 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Case: Animatronics launched on 3 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Abzu and Overcooked!. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Abzu, Overcooked!.

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When did Case: Animatronics come out?
Case: Animatronics was released on 3 August 2016 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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