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Slybots: Frantic Zone

Following a “Fatal Exception Error”, four little all-purpose robots have been considered faulty and have been marked as out-of-order. They get crazy and start fighting for their survival. Take their control in…

60 18 January 2016

Slybots: Frantic Zone is an indie developed by Team ERROR, released 18 January 2016 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Slybots: Frantic Zone is

Slybots: Frantic Zone is an indie game developed by Team ERROR and released in 2016. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Following a “Fatal Exception Error”, four little all-purpose robots have been considered faulty and have been marked as out-of-order. They get crazy and start fighting for their survival. Take their control in the frantic zone and leverage 4 unique stealth mechanics to catch your sly foes off-guard. Don’t be afraid to use dirty tricks to win amazing 3-minute matches across different game modes, proving that you don’t belong to the e-waste dump. Slybots: Frantic Zone is a local multiplayer dual-stick shooter: all players are looking at the same screen, but there are things that only one of them knows... Master the art of camouflage and enjoy the adrenaline rush of the most frantic zone…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Slybots: Frantic Zone holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Slybots: Frantic Zone launched on 18 January 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami and Darkest Dungeon. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Witness, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami, Darkest Dungeon.

Official trailer

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When did Slybots: Frantic Zone come out?
Slybots: Frantic Zone was released on 18 January 2016 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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