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Roto Force
As rudimentary as it may look in static screenshots, there’s a fizzing energy and character to the pixel art and animation, with regular palette shifts adding extra visual dynamism. The rotating menus, meanwhile, are a delight
Developer Accidently Awesome Publisher PID Games, East2West Games Format PC Release July 18
P icture a stray red sock, inadvertently thrown in with a white wash in a hand-cranked spin dryer. Now imagine it darting around the drum, as if consciously trying to avoid turning everything else in there a fetching shade of pink. Surviving this chaotic twin-stick shooter – as a peculiarly nimble slug trapped within a series of geometrically shaped levels that move with you, each crowded with enemies – feels a little like that. Space, in other words, is at a premium, and touching anything (bar the odd bubble that contains a weapon or a restorative) tends to be a bad idea.