Sector 781
Battle your way through 3 realms of 'Sector 781', a pixel art platformer. Upgrade your character and weapons; collect shards to increase your energy supply. Use teleports to navigate around the realms. Shoot…
Sector 781 is an indie developed by Ben James, released 17 September 2020 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sector 781 is
Sector 781 is an indie game developed by Ben James and released in 2020. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Defold.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Battle your way through 3 realms of 'Sector 781', a pixel art platformer. Upgrade your character and weapons; collect shards to increase your energy supply. Use teleports to navigate around the realms. Shoot things that move and some that don't move. Activate checkpoints to save your position.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Sector 781 launched on 17 September 2020, within three weeks of Marvel's Avengers, Hades, Hades and Genshin Impact. 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, Hades, Hades, Genshin Impact.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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