Dissolved: Chapter One
If there are feel-good games, well Dissolved is a feel-bad game. You play as a girl whose weird psychosis is to turn every ordeal in her life into a video game. It's a mix of completely new gameplays, fun and…
Dissolved: Chapter One is an arcade developed by Absorb Reality, released 8 December 2022 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Dissolved: Chapter One is
Dissolved: Chapter One is an arcade game developed by Absorb Reality and released in 2022. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker Studio 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You play as a girl whose weird psychosis is to turn every ordeal in her life into a video game. Every time she encounters a painful challenge, rather than facing it she'll prefer taking refuge in her imaginary world. It doesn't make things easier for Padla, the superheroine her sick mind is personifying. It's now up to Padla to walk your cat on a road which suddenly became a deadly step by step runner. You'll also let her deal with classroom relationships, in a stealth game to make you the most popular girl without being spotted by the teacher. Padla has a dark alter ego who sometimes appears in her visions. Her origin and intentions remain mysterious, but she will undoubtedly play a role…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
What it launched against
Dissolved: Chapter One launched on 8 December 2022, within three weeks of Marvel's Midnight Suns, Chained Echoes, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight and Pokémon Violet. It arrived 5 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Midnight Suns, Chained Echoes, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Pokémon Violet.
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