Gimmick! Special Edition is an adventure developed by City Connection, released 6 July 2023 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Gimmick! Special Edition is
Gimmick! Special Edition is an adventure game developed by City Connection and released in 2023. It was published by Bitwave Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Yumetaro is a small green creature who ends up given as a birthday present to a young girl, quickly becoming her favorite toy. Jealous that they are no longer loved, her other toys come alive one night and spirit the girl away into another dimension. Left behind, Yumetaro sets off after them, using the star he conjures above his head to strike down foes and to reach faraway ledges as he searches through strange, hostile worlds to bring his owner safely home.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Gimmick! Special Edition holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 6 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Gimmick! Special Edition launched on 6 July 2023, within three weeks of Final Fantasy XVI, Dave the Diver, Viewfinder and Remnant II. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 10 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy XVI, Dave the Diver, Viewfinder, Remnant II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Gimmick! Special Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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