Bartlow's Dread Machine
An artifact from the past returns in Bartlow's Dread Machine, a game from the dawn of the Electric Age. Dread Machine is a dual stick arcade shooter with single player and couch co-op modes, six scintillating…
Bartlow's Dread Machine is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Beep Games, released 29 September 2020 on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Bartlow's Dread Machine is
Bartlow's Dread Machine is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Beep Games and released in 2020. It is available on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
An artifact from the past returns in Bartlow's Dread Machine, a game from the dawn of the Electric Age. Dread Machine is a dual stick arcade shooter with single player and couch co-op modes, six scintillating game worlds and a cast of improbable monsters and characters.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Bartlow's Dread Machine holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 66% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Bartlow's Dread Machine launched on 29 September 2020, within three weeks of Hades, Hades, Genshin Impact and Mafia: Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Hades, Hades, Genshin Impact, Mafia: Definitive Edition.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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