If Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge got you hooked on reptile-based beat 'em ups, then boy do we have a treat in store for you. COWCAT Games has announced that its point-and-click adventure and beat 'em up hybrid, BROK the InvestiGator, will be coming to Switch this Winter.
The game releases on Steam a little later this month (August 26th to be precise), and the new trailer has got us excited to see the mystery enter the handheld world.
Unlike the straight-up punch-fest of Shredder's Revenge that we have come to know and love, BROK promises that adventure and mystery will be the driving force behind the game. Think Disney's Zootopia meets Mad Max as the game follows an alligator detective forced to investigate a mystery in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Looking at the trailer above, it looks like how punchy you get is entirely up to you, which finally answers the question: what if Professor Layton threw hands?
For the game's full features, check out COWCAT's official summary below:
A deep and emotional narrative-rich experience filled with characters reminiscent of classic 80s/90s cartoons.
The first game to combine a "Classic Adventure" with "Beat'em up" and RPG elements!
- Solve puzzles with your wits... or muscles!
- Make choices impacting gameplay and/or story
- Easy mode for pure "Point & Click" gameplay (fights can be skipped)
- Level up to beat enemies and bosses
- Combine clues to uncover the truth!
- In-game hints
- Two playable characters, switch at any time
- 15 to 20 hours long on first playthrough
- Multiple distinct endings to unlock
- Fully voice acted (23,000 lines)
- All controls supported (mouse, keyboard or controller)
While we don't have an official release date for the Switch just yet, the Winter window promises a good bit of 'gator action for those cosy nights in.
Are you excited to give BROK The InvestiGator a go? Let us know in the comments!
[source store.steampowered.com, via twitter.com]
Comments 21
Oh no. Now every beat ‘em up is going to be compared to shredders revenge.
Been waiting for this one for more than a year.
In other news it’s nothing like Shredders Revenge!
This game has been a loooong time coming (I should know, I did voices for it 3 years ago lol)
Why does everything need to be compared to something? So annoying.
Brox seems strangely familiar ... did anyone notice its similarity with Leatherhead from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ?
Anyway, this seems to be a fun game. A Beat´em-up with puzzle elements is an unlikely combination I´m willing to try.
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Kinda interesting to be honest. I’ll see how the reviews are once it drops on Steam.
@KayFiOS Clickbait titles are used because they work. You clicked on it, didn't you?
Gameplay feels too weak, need to see more to be excited but the animations and voiceworks are good at least.
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@Snatcher @Orokosaki @OorWullie Okay, if my posts are being taken down for calling you out for using Shredder's Revenge in the title, how are these more constructive?
So now every brawler is gonna be likened to Shredder's Revenge?! LOL
Looks ok but will pass on this one as the cowabunga collection is coming out on the 30th of this month. Hoping to see a re-make/collection of NES Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and SNES SW, ESB and ROTJ. Also, the Rogue Squadron trilogy. Take my money now if someone does this!
@KayFiOS You're suppose to talk about the article, not the person who wrote it. Your job is to view and discuss anything in the article and the author's job is to entice you enough to come view the article. If he manage to entice you to come here and read the article then he did his job.
No need to take jabs at him for doing so. Unless it's misleading I don't see anything wrong with the article, it clearly says it's about a beat em up game similar to Shredder's Revenge with a touch of Shirlock Holmes in the mix.
You never know cause Shredder's Revenge may be the only popular beat em up game he play so far, not everyone who play games had play a Battletoads, Double Dragon, Astro Boy: Omega Factor, The Simpsons Arcade Game, Streets of Rage, Final Fight, Turtles in Time, Dragon Ball: Advance Adventure, River City Ransom, or Rival Turf in their life time. I know a guy who owns every consoles up til the PS3 and still don't know what a Streets of Rage or Final Fight even is.
Not feeling this one. The gameplay looks really bad.
@Serpenterror Still doesn't excuse using SR as a comparison. As I've said in my deleted posts, the devs for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl hated their game being called a "Smash Killer." Similarly, the devs here may not care for being compared to the big new beat 'em up that probably didn't inspire this game.
There is a free Demo on Steam which is 1+ hours long if you want to check out.
You can also play it on your Steam Deck which absolutely isn't the way I just experienced the Demo because I would never betray my Switch coughs
It is a rather enjoyable adventure that is absolutely made with gamepad control in mind (switching trough hotspots with the controller, direct control of your character, right stick as mouse cursor,...) and as you have might guessed from the trailer....is superfurry with a hint of cringe.
I'm curious.. but the trailer was pretty underwhelming, honestly.
I played the demo a few months ago, and it took me HOURS. And I didn't even finish it. Again, I'm the type to try everything with everything in these kinds of point and click games. Left me a bit anxious at the end, as there were some tough choices to make.
Lmaoo, I didn't like it...
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