Metropolis: Lux Obscura is an arcade developed by Ktulhu Solutions, released 11 October 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One.
What Metropolis: Lux Obscura is
Metropolis: Lux Obscura is an arcade game developed by Ktulhu Solutions and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Jon Lockhart walked through the prison gates a free man, after spending years imprisoned as the supposed murderer of an old friend. He returned once more to the city where it all started intent on figuring out who it was that framed him for the murder and make them pay in blood for the crime. It'd take some work with the key witness dead, but that just meant he'd have to flush out every rat from hiding. Old friends and new enemies. Search for the truth, for loyalty and sanity - but all you can find here is redemption, betrayal and death.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are erotic. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Metropolis: Lux Obscura holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 21 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Metropolis: Lux Obscura launched on 11 October 2017, within three weeks of Super Mario Odyssey, Cuphead, Assassin's Creed Origins and South Park: The Fractured But Whole. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Super Mario Odyssey, Cuphead, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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