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Xeno Crisis & Tanglewood

Xeno Crisis & Tanglewood Dual Game Cartridge is a bundle cartridge for Evercade, containing the indie games Xeno Crisis and Tanglewood, homebrew games originally made for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.

70 23 October 2020

Xeno Crisis & Tanglewood is a platform developed by Big Evil Corporation, released 23 October 2020 on Evercade.

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What Xeno Crisis & Tanglewood is

Xeno Crisis & Tanglewood is a platform game developed by Big Evil Corporation and released in 2020. It was published by Blaze Entertainment. It is available on Evercade only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Xeno Crisis: The game begins with Commander Darius receiving a distress signal from Outpost 88, a scientific research facility. The two controllable space marines are sent on a drop ship to the facility, where they begin to work their way through each level of the facility, where they face off against aliens, robot defenses, and even Cthulhu, on their way to figure out what is going on. Along the way the two space marines find survivors of the facility that they are able to rescue and release to safety. When the space marines reach the final stage, they are confronted by Dr. Herzog, where he reveals that he was behind the various horrors the space marines battled up to this point. If either…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Xeno Crisis & Tanglewood holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 3 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Xeno Crisis & Tanglewood launched on 23 October 2020, within three weeks of Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

Official trailer

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When did Xeno Crisis & Tanglewood come out?
Xeno Crisis & Tanglewood was released on 23 October 2020 for Evercade.

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