Hypergun
"Fight through waves of alien interlopers and save the world as Dewey Owens in Hypergun, a fast-paced roguelite shooter centering around a procedural weapon of questionable effectiveness. Enter the simulation…
Hypergun is an indie developed by NVYVE Studios, released 23 August 2018 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Hypergun is
Hypergun is an indie game developed by NVYVE Studios and released in 2018. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"The year is 2038, and a highly advanced alien race has occupied planet Earth. Humanity is at its breaking point, and the fate of the human race now depends on the top-secret HYPERGUN program: a highly advanced simulation that is designed to create the ultimate weapon to combat the alien oppressors by combining weapon components across countless simulations. The intern at DevTech Labs, Dewey Owens, has managed to sneak into the facility over the weekend (even at the end of the world, we still need weekends!). Is he trying to prove himself to Roger, the hard-nosed CEO, or is he up to something nefarious? We may never know, but he just might save the world along the way."
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Hypergun holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 3% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 29 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Hypergun launched on 23 August 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition and Dead Cells. All of them reviewed better. 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: Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells.
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