Indie publisher Fantastico Studio has announced that Top Run, an endless runner with platform elements, is headed to Nintendo Switch early next month.
The game actually blends its endless runner/platforming action with shooter elements, taking players through an '80s-inspired adventure. You'll play as Kevin and his pet dog, Buddy, blasting your way through a neon city full of enemies, scanlines and pixel art aplenty. Here's a list of key features:
Top Run key features:
- Fast-paced gameplay with varied weird enemies.
- Amazing synthwave soundtrack by Beckett.
- 100+ missions, completing which unlocks cool stuff for Kevin's 80's room
- Tons of cool skins and references from 80s movies and 80s cartoons
- Use superpowers to survive epic battles while you run!
- Shoot floppies to kill enemies
- Collect pixels to upgrade your abilities and gain more power!
- Level up and customize your 80’s room
- Normal mode: fun, challenging and addictive but not the hardest game ever
- Hardcore mode: run, survive, test your reflexes (the way arcade is supposed to be played)
- Rage mode: what others call zen we call rage, let your inner anger out!
The game's scheduled to arrive on Switch on 6th February, just days after it launches on rival platforms.
What do you think? Something to add to the wishlist, or not for you? Share your thoughts with us below.
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The 80’s you say?! Cool, count me in!
It looks like an 80s jetpack joyride only slower.
I’m really sick of:
1. Endless runner games
2. This pixel art style (although the added 80’s/neon glow effect does add some flair and I like that.) It’s melding together big-pixel Atari-style with... what shall we call it? Ugh.
Now that aside, I’m sure this is really fun and a good time and lots of love went into it, but .. eh I don’t even know why I’m complaining. People love this stuff. Enjoy! Don’t let me ruin it! :: gets down from table ::
Looks interesting, though I've learned the hard one not to buy these kinds of titles at launch. Paid full for Coffee Crisis, Streets of Red, etc., and they're all on perma-discount
80s, with a name very close to top Gun and a guy always running. Is he short? Because I'm pretty sure this is a Tom Cruise "homage". If that's the case, they should have called it Tom Run
wow looks pretty..
I wanna dope on playing him.
F2P iOS Mobile game. Just go try it there for free.
I have this game on my android phone. It's a fun game and has enough variety to keep it interesting for a while. I enjoy playing it from time to time. Created by a 2 person team (husband and wife) - self taught art and coding iirc. Depending on the price, I might get it on the Switch (I prefer physical controls to on screen anyways).
This looks AND sounds an awful lot like The VideoKid... is there really no developer connection?
Personnaly, I'm really tired of endless runners. I mean, since they're litterally dime a dozen on most platforms since years already, one really need to have something extra super duper special for me to want to play it. And I mean beyond art style or variation on the same old gameplay.
I know some people will definetely like this, and that's cool. I wish all developpers out there can get some success with their games. Creating games is often a labour of love, so it's great when people recognize this and buy your game.
But.... it's another endless runner..... So probably not for me. Unless someone tells me there is a definite thing or feature in there that makes it completely different than most other endless runners out there....
This looks nowhere near as good as the Videokid. Will wait for reviews and sale
Sounds like a free-to-play phone game. Oh, hang on... it is.
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