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Defentron

Get ready and battle for the ultimate upgrade. Defentron, the retro-futurist computer system is trying to safeguard itself from malicious viruses that seek to control its core. Use strategy to upgrade your…

16 December 2020

Defentron is an arcade, released 16 December 2020 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Defentron is

Defentron was released in 2020. It was published by Zerouno Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Get ready and battle for the ultimate upgrade. Defentron, the retro-futurist computer system is trying to safeguard itself from malicious viruses that seek to control its core. Use strategy to upgrade your lines of defense and become the most powerful security system ever known. Think like an 80s software. You will face fast, hard, resilient enemies, capable of regenerating or splitting when destroyed, returning to the battlefield. Nobody will be safe until the last of the living enemies falls. Will you be able to save Defentron from the enemy threat? It all depends on you.
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How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Defentron launched on 16 December 2020, within three weeks of Cyberpunk 2077, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Omori and Monster Sanctuary. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Cyberpunk 2077, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Omori, Monster Sanctuary.

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When did Defentron come out?
Defentron was released on 16 December 2020 for Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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