Iridium is an arcade developed by Nebula-Design, released 24 August 2020 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Iridium is
Iridium is an arcade game developed by Nebula-Design and released in 2020. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on JEng.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the year 4096 Earth and its commonwealth of systems has expanded across a large proportion of our home galaxy. The avalanche of human expansion did not begin until 2801 just a few decades after the development of wormhole technology. With no alien contact and the fact that the human race had been at peace for over 1000 years the military had reduced in size to the point where it is little more than a home world defence force. The huge warships of the past were stranded in the system they were produced in due to being too large to travel by wormhole. Most were scrapped, some were sold off and converted into cruise ships. The Iridium project |began in 3496 |with the aim of producing a…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Iridium launched on 24 August 2020, within three weeks of Marvel's Avengers, Factorio, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout and Risk of Rain 2. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Avengers, Factorio, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, Risk of Rain 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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Quick answers
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