Gimmick! 2 is an adventure developed by Bitwave Games, released 5 September 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Gimmick! 2 is
Gimmick! 2 is an adventure game developed by Bitwave Games and released in 2024. It was published by Clear River Games. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game is light on story, centering on the yōkai protagonist Yumetaro, who embarks on a magical journey to rescue the young daughter of his former companion, a girl who has since grown up and passed Yumetaro to her child. When the child is mysteriously taken away, Yumetaro leaps through a portal into challenging, spike-filled levels where he can skip, jump, and run.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Gimmick! 2 holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Gimmick! 2 launched on 5 September 2024, within three weeks of Black Myth: Wukong, Star Wars Outlaws, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Astro Bot. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Black Myth: Wukong, Star Wars Outlaws, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Astro Bot.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Gimmick! 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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