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Gear Gauntlet

Gear Gauntlet is a fun but rage inducing 2D action arcade game from Drop Dead Interactive. Test your patience through ever more punishing gauntlets while boosting, teleporting, reversing and rotating to…

15 April 2016

Gear Gauntlet is an arcade, released 15 April 2016 on Wii U, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Gear Gauntlet is

Gear Gauntlet was released in 2016. It is available on Wii U, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Gear Gauntlet is a fun but rage inducing 2D action arcade game from Drop Dead Interactive. Test your patience through ever more punishing gauntlets while boosting, teleporting, reversing and rotating to survive. Use your reflexes to break through coloured barriers and earn your place on the leaderboard. Beautiful hand drawn art and a wonderful soundtrack accompany your descent into fury, but do try to remain calm! Can you survive the Gear Gauntlet?
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How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Gear Gauntlet launched on 15 April 2016, within three weeks of Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together and Quantum Break. It arrived 3 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together, Quantum Break.

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When did Gear Gauntlet come out?
Gear Gauntlet was released on 15 April 2016 for Wii U, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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