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Ellipsis

Ellipsis is an action-packed Avoid ’Em Up with minimalistic, yet powerful neon styled visuals. Guide your ship through a mysterious universe while deftly avoiding hordes of roaming enemies, spikes, lasers and…

50 25 January 2017

Ellipsis is an arcade developed by Salmi Games, released 25 January 2017 on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Ellipsis is

Ellipsis is an arcade game developed by Salmi Games and released in 2017. It was published by Silesia Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Ellipsis is an action-packed Avoid ’Em Up with minimalistic, yet powerful neon styled visuals. Guide your ship through a mysterious universe while deftly avoiding hordes of roaming enemies, spikes, lasers and more.
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Ellipsis holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 21 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Ellipsis launched on 25 January 2017, within three weeks of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, For Honor, Nioh and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, For Honor, Nioh, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Ellipsis come out?
Ellipsis was released on 25 January 2017 for Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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