Loopers (2021) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Loopers

Loopers is a kinetic novel made by Ryukishi07 in collaboration with the visual novel studio Key.

28 May 2021

What Loopers is

Loopers is an adventure game developed by Key and released in 2021. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Siglus.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Let's set out to find a real treasure! Tyler is a high school student who is obsessed with geocaching, a GPS-based treasure hunting game. One day during summer vacation, Tyler and her friends get drawn into a mysterious incident while out treasure-hunting. The real and imagined become interconnected. Thoughts are thrown into chaos. Tomorrow becomes today. Swallowed up by a time vortex, they are trapped in a never-ending time loop, repeating "today" again and again. Then they meet other "loopers." Simon, the leader, and the mysterious girl Mia. If they join forces, will they be able to break out from this eternal prison...?

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Loopers launched on 28 May 2021, within three weeks of Biomutant, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Biomutant, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.

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