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Captain Backwater

Captain Backwater is a challenging puzzle game. To solve the 100 Levels you need to slide items around the playfield. If they collide with similar ones they magically disappear. This sounds simple, but it's…

1 September 2017

Captain Backwater is an adventure developed by Intermediaware, released 1 September 2017 on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Captain Backwater is

Captain Backwater is an adventure game developed by Intermediaware and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Captain Backwater is a challenging puzzle game. To solve the 100 Levels you need to slide items around the playfield. If they collide with similar ones they magically disappear. This sounds simple, but it's getting more and more challenging...
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Captain Backwater launched on 1 September 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II and Doki Doki Literature Club!. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II, Doki Doki Literature Club!.

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When did Captain Backwater come out?
Captain Backwater was released on 1 September 2017 for Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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