Risk System is an arcade developed by Newt Industries, released 14 May 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux.
What Risk System is
Risk System is an arcade game developed by Newt Industries and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the distant future, humanity has discovered a method to replicate matter through the use of a Dimensional Gate. Industry is revolutionized overnight and a short period of chaos gives way to all warring factions uniting under a common banner.A few years pass and the peace brought about by Gate Technology crumbles once a new threat appears; a race of energy parasites that have crossed through the Dimensional Gate by mimicking the very materials humanity had believed they were replicating. Mankind is quickly overtaken as their technology is turned against them and the energy emitted by the parasites begins to take control of those exposed.In an act of desperation, the experimental RSK9 is…
How it plays
Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Risk System holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 53% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Risk System launched on 14 May 2019, within three weeks of Days Gone, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Outer Wilds and Rage 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Days Gone, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Outer Wilds, Rage 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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