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Cogen: Sword of Rewind

Rewind, rethink, redo. Cogen is a brand-new kind of 2D action game where there's no time for death. Any hit you take is a death sentence in this side-scrolling 2D action game. But fear not! You may lack the HP…

83 26 January 2022 ESRB E10+

Cogen: Sword of Rewind is an adventure developed by Gemdrops, released 26 January 2022 on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

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What Cogen: Sword of Rewind is

Cogen: Sword of Rewind is an adventure game developed by Gemdrops and released in 2022. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The perfect weapon to combat instant death. Sword action like you’ve never felt before. Set on Earth in the distant future, take contrl of the heroine Kohaku and unlock the mysteries of Cogen City. Use the Ouroboros System the instant you die. Rewind time, think nothing of failure, and fight on gracefully! Awakening to find herself sprawled on a floor of hard steel, the first thing that greets Kohaku's eyes is a strange talking sword named ExeBreaker. Unsure of where she is or what's going on, she agrees to this sardonic sword's proposal to join forces, and together they journey deep into the heart of a transformed Cogen City—once Kohaku's home, now a collapsing ruin. Both mystery and…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Cogen: Sword of Rewind holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Cogen: Sword of Rewind launched on 26 January 2022, within three weeks of Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Vampire Survivors, Pokémon Legends: Arceus and Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 9 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Vampire Survivors, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection.

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When did Cogen: Sword of Rewind come out?
Cogen: Sword of Rewind was released on 26 January 2022 for Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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