Cobalt
Shoot, roll, punch and jump your way to slow-motion victory in Cobalt – a couch multiplayer and action platformer from Oxeye Game Studio. Dominate in local or online multiplayer campaigns, or co-op your way…
Cobalt is an adventure developed by Oxeye Game Studio, released 2 February 2016 on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Cobalt is
Cobalt is an adventure game developed by Oxeye Game Studio and released in 2016. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on BitSquid.
The premise, in the publisher's words
After the missing human colony "Trunkopia" suddenly sends out a distress signal after 50 years, Agent Cobalt, a type of cyborg called a metalface, is sent to investigate.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer for up to 8 players online. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Cobalt holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 13 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Cobalt launched on 2 February 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2 and Yakuza Kiwami. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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