Regular readers of our sister-site Push Square probably know the name Luc Bernard, a British game designer well known for highly stylised and intriguing games. A recent project through Arcade Distillery - a studio with some familiar names in its roster - is Plague Road, and pleasingly it's coming to the Nintendo Switch.
It's described as being centered around "strategic turn-based combat w/ roguelike progression"; it was released earlier this year on PC / PS4 / Vita after a successful Kickstarter campaign. Set in a world engulfed in disease, as a doctor you seek survivors to help but also recruit them to build up your farm or accompany you on your travels and assist you in combat. There are four regions, five 'types' of survivors and plenty of challenges to face as you head for the end goal.
Bernard has kindly given us exclusive early footage and screenshots of the Switch version - it was shot off-screen to demonstrate how it is running on Nintendo's hardware. Check it out below.
The target is to release the game in November, but that'll naturally depend on approval and scheduling. Bernard also confirms that touchscreen play will be supported, for those that prefer those controls in handheld mode.
It was also confirmed this week that the studio's most recent release, Mecho Tales, is in the works for Nintendo Switch; it's a sidescroller / shooter that looks rather interesting.
Let us know whether you like the look of Plague Road on the Nintendo Switch.
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This looks interesting, but so many games to play now.
Was this game just announced for switch?
This looks cool, gonna have to keep my eye on this one.
@Rika_Yoshitake This game looks similar to the recently announced 'Darkest Dungeon'. Maybe that's the one you're thinking of?
I think it looks awesome! Bring it on!!
looks interesting. I shall keep an eye out. lol.
Turn based strategy is my favorite genre so I'll definitely be checking this out. Hopefully it's good.
I remember this guy from way way back in the days of Wii Ware World. The guy promised many things for Wii and failed to deliver anything. If I remember correctly he took a huge strop when his game was received very badly on PC, like 1/10 bad and then he quit the industry. That was a long time ago now though. Fair play to the guy, he's still in the industry and looks to have had some success.
Are the designers at all related to the Darkest Dungeon creators? I really enjoy these types of games and seeing that this one is loads more colorful than DD, it will offer a nice counterbalance. i hope the gameplay is there. everything is SWITCHING!
Looks very stunning, the graphics reminds me of games like Muramasa and Dragon's Crown and I love strategy games like this. Might check this one out soon.
I have this on my VITA... It is great and the art style is fantastic.
It was cross buy but didnt have cross save that was disappointing as it made the PS4 version useless to me. But the Switch fixes that and the game art looks great on a TV.
I'll be buying this again for sure.
Turn-based strategy in plague ridden medieval Europe? Count me in. I'm not huge on rogur-likes, but I'm very interested.
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I remember trying turn based combat in one of the Final Fantasy games that the critics were raving about decades ago. It was tedious beyond words, with me endlessly forced to repeat the same moves every time I bumped into a bad guy. The whole experience was enough to put me off the idea forever.
Turn based gameplay on a proper map with proper strategy is fine. Launching 'attacks' on a figure in front of you though is mindnumbing in the extreme.
No thank you.
Why couldn’t this have been an arcade style hack n slash?? Oh well...I’ll probably pass.
I don't say this often, but this actually looks pretty bad.
I have the LM physical on PS4, it loks cool and the animation style is nice, but the game for me was very dull. I played it for half an hour and gave up.
Nice artstyle.
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