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Red Colony

Red Colony is a 2D Horror Game filled with drama, mystery, zombies and gore. Help Maria find her daughter and get revenge on her cheating Husband, whilst uncovering the truths of the origins of the virus.

7 January 2021

Red Colony is an adventure developed by RunicCodes, released 7 January 2021 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Red Colony is

Red Colony is an adventure game developed by RunicCodes and released in 2021. It was published by Shinyuden. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 2019.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Maria is the CEO of LAB, a high-tech laboratory on the Red Colony. LAB has been doing some pretty weird and revolutionary experiments under their new head scientist Dr J. Dr J is fascinated with genome splicing and insists to Maria that his experiments are both safe and ethical. Due to outsider pressure and the willingness for the Red Colony to do anything to be their rivals the Blue Colony, Maria agrees to let Dr J continues his experiments, pretty much unchecked. What could possibly go wrong, right? A few weeks later, Maria awakens in a dark and damp warehouse with no knowledge of how she got there. All she knows is that there are flesh eating Zombies clawing at the walls and Dr J has…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Red Colony launched on 7 January 2021, within three weeks of Hitman 3, Omori, The Medium and Skul: The Hero Slayer. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Hitman 3, Omori, The Medium, Skul: The Hero Slayer.

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When did Red Colony come out?
Red Colony was released on 7 January 2021 for Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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