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We Are Doomed

"WE ARE DOOMED is a twin-stick shooter where you zap polygon baddies with an absurdly overpowered laserbeam. Dive head-first into the action with reckless ambition, charge the SUPERBEAM, and zap everything out…

50 14 April 2015

We Are Doomed is an arcade developed by Vertex Pop, released 14 April 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One.

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What We Are Doomed is

We Are Doomed is an arcade game developed by Vertex Pop and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

"WE ARE DOOMED is a twin-stick shooter where you zap polygon baddies with an absurdly overpowered laserbeam. Dive head-first into the action with reckless ambition, charge the SUPERBEAM, and zap everything out of existence in an instant. Chase high scores or just enjoy the beautiful explosion of geometry, colour and light."
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

We Are Doomed holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 19 points below the year average.

What it launched against

We Are Doomed launched on 14 April 2015, within three weeks of Bloodborne, Mortal Kombat X, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin and Kerbal Space Program. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Bloodborne, Mortal Kombat X, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, Kerbal Space Program.

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When did We Are Doomed come out?
We Are Doomed was released on 14 April 2015 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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