Epic Loon is an arcade developed by Macrales Studio, released 12 July 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Epic Loon is
Epic Loon is an arcade game developed by Macrales Studio and released in 2018. It was published by Shibuya Productions. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
My name is Joey Ernie 'Chips' Douglas, but my friends just call me Joe. I am what you might call a cinephile. I know the classics like the backs of my hands, I'm the real deal VHS expert: science fiction, fantasy, comedy, thriller and horror, nothing gets past me. I've got the biggest... VHS collection in all of Wyoming. I'm pretty proud of that fact. I record every program running on the cable night and day, to the point where my grandma calls me ""The Cable Guy"". All was well in my life until that night in August 1994. It was a Thursday I think. I was finishing for the third time that afternoon the excellent ""Space Vampires Versus Zombie Dinosaurs in Color"", and I noted all the best…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, party and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 10 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Epic Loon holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5, 4 GB RAM and Intel Integrated Graphics. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB.
What it launched against
Epic Loon launched on 12 July 2018, within three weeks of Octopath Traveler, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit and Sonic Mania Plus. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Octopath Traveler, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, Sonic Mania Plus.
Official trailer
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