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Shining Gadget

Shining Gadget is a passive creature collecting idle game that transforms your Playdate into an online-enabled specter catcher! Take aim at ghosts and suck them into your Playdate using the built-in crank!…

6 October 2022

Shining Gadget is an arcade developed by Strangest.io, released 6 October 2022 on Playdate.

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What Shining Gadget is

Shining Gadget is an arcade game developed by Strangest.io and released in 2022. It is available on Playdate only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Shining Gadget is a passive creature collecting idle game that transforms your Playdate into an online-enabled specter catcher! Take aim at ghosts and suck them into your Playdate using the built-in crank! Keep your tractor beam on target to weaken the ghost and crank for maximum pull! Your precision and reflexes will be put to the ultimate test as you collect ancient and powerful spirits!
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How it plays

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

What it launched against

Shining Gadget launched on 6 October 2022, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord and Return to Monkey Island.

Released around the same time: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Return to Monkey Island.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Shining Gadget come out?
Shining Gadget was released on 6 October 2022 for Playdate.

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