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Morphies Law

Each weapon hit transfers mass from the victim's inflicted limb to the corresponding limb of the wielder of the weapon. As an immediate consequence, skilled players become tall and easy to hit, whereas…

40 20 August 2018

Morphies Law is an indie developed by Cosmoscope, released 20 August 2018 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Morphies Law is

Morphies Law is an indie game developed by Cosmoscope and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Each weapon hit transfers mass from the victim's inflicted limb to the corresponding limb of the wielder of the weapon. As an immediate consequence, skilled players become tall and easy to hit, whereas beginners shrink until they become difficult targets. Highly skilled players may therefore play with casual players in the same match and both can enjoy Game. Your skill will not be expressed by your kill-death-ratio, but by your body size.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Morphies Law 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

Morphies Law launched on 20 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 1 year into the Nintendo Switch'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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When did Morphies Law come out?
Morphies Law was released on 20 August 2018 for Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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