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Overwhelm

You're outnumbered, low on ammunition and the paranoia sets in. This is an action horror-world where enemies get power-ups and you don’t.

60 11 June 2018

Overwhelm is an indie developed by Ruari O'Sullivan, released 11 June 2018 on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Overwhelm is

Overwhelm is an indie game developed by Ruari O'Sullivan and released in 2018. It was published by Alliance. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Overwhelm holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Overwhelm launched on 11 June 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.

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Overwhelm was released on 11 June 2018 for Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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