UnMetal (2D stealth action-adventure) announced for Nintendo Switch

Versus Evil have announced their latest game for the Nintendo Switch: UnMetal, a 2D stealth action/adventure game developed by Unepic Games (who previously worked on Unepic and Ghost 1.0). It will be released on September 28th in Europe and North America.

Here’s a trailer, some details, the list of key features, and some screenshots for the game:

You play as Jesse Fox who finds himself imprisoned in a covert military base where he was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. Jesse must now escape using his dry wits, quick words, improvised skills, arsenal of warfare, violent explosives, MacGuyvered gadgets, and an elaborate explanation of how it all went down. If that all fails, he’ll use his fists.

UnMetal is driven by a narrative that piles on the 80’s movie and TV nostalgia which it combines with UnMetal’s top down 2D pixel-art visuals for a distinctly retro feel, tasking you, the player, to conduct a covert mission to escape a clandestine military base for a crime you didn’t commit

Players assume the role of Jesse Fox, a civilian inadvertently embroiled in an unplanned mission to prevent an attack on NATO. Shot down, captured and questioned, Fox needs a way out with all the cunning and guile he can muster.

Players conduct their subterfuge to escape incarceration by combining and crafting various objects discovered in the game world, including toilet paper (unscented, unpatterned and single ply), circuit boards, rusty wire and even a guards eye patch and glass eye.

Distraction, sabotage and combat will all come into play, and Fox will encounter a variety of adversaries including enemy soldiers, attack dogs, hungry rats and bigger more formidable heavily armed military hardware like tanks.

The ability to level up with new found skills improving attributes like strength and speed and completing various sub challenges in the game improve the chances of success though.

• Uncover a clandestine plot as you escape from an enemy base where you were imprisoned for a crime you didn’t commit.
• Modern gameplay mechanics that pay homage to a solid classic.
• Gain experience and skills by utilizing stealth to take down your enemies.
• Deceive, adapt, and do whatever is necessary to escape… even if you have to impersonate a cat.
• Enjoy the thrill of interrogation as you elaborate specifics of your great escape to a lieutenant who seeks to scrutinize Jesse’s every word in an intricate report.
• Decipher a plethora of satirical culture, gaming and movie references. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll fall in love with them.
• Collect an arsenal of classic gear, things that go “pew-pew”, maybe a thing or two that goes “BOOM!”, and some things that go “BOING!”, and definitely a thing that goes “SCRATCH”.
• Does this smell like chloroform to you?

UnMetal (Switch – eShop) will be released on September 28th in Europe and North America.

Source: Versus Evil PR