Spheroids is an adventure developed by Eclipse Games, released 5 January 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Wii U.
What Spheroids is
Spheroids is an adventure game developed by Eclipse Games and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Spheroids you take control of Lucas, a jumpy Canadian boy who sets out on an adventure with his crazy scientist companion Otto after it's discovered that the government has been hiding alternative universes from the cubic world they live in. Unfortunately, these alternative universes contain spheres that wish to turn everything round, so it's up to Lucas to save the world from these dangerous aliens: the Spheroids. Throughout Spheroids 32 levels, you'll encounter many different environments, with multiple hazards to avoid and enemies to destroy. Items such as the "Modified-Drilling-Hook" Otto lends Lucas will help you traverse the environment with ease, with many more to find throughout…
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.
How it was received
Spheroids holds a critic score of 44 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 27 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Spheroids launched on 5 January 2017, within three weeks of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony and The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Official trailer
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