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Toy Odyssey The Lost and The Found Release Date
Monday, September 12th, in the year of our Lord 2016
– Independent game publisher Digital Smash announced today that
they are working with Hiker Games to bring action platformer Toy
Odyssey: The Lost and The Found™ to Xbox One and Steam on
September 21st, 2016, for just $14.99, with a PlayStation 4
release soon to follow. Hiker Games is developing the game and
handling publishing efforts on the PC, while Digital Smash
handles all console publishing efforts.
Toy Odyssey: The Lost and The Found, previously known as
ToyQuest, was created by Vietnamese developer Hiker Games, and
features a story and gameplay. The game follows Brand, an action
figure who tries to save his owner, Felix, from impending
darkness. Armed with common household items, Brand must solve
the house’s many mysteries before powerful nightmares take over.
The game brings an interesting mix of difficulty and genre along
with it: Metroidvania, violent action Platforming, and some
minor base defense aspects. Recommended to be played with a
controller. With 30,000 lines of fully vocalized dialog and an
infinite amount of procedurally generated maps, no two
playthroughs will be the same.
Toy Odyssey features more than 300 enemy toys — including tanks,
paper origami cranes, and deadly toy soldiers. The game also
boasts hundreds of weapon and item upgrades, a crafting system,
and seven horrific boss stages. In addition to the faithful
8-bit and 16-bit platformer style, Toy Odyssey innovates with a
“base defense” twist: As players fight the enemy in different
parts of the house, the bedroom is left unprotected. This means
that you will need to find the proper materials to build
defenses that can handle a sustained attack from the darkness,
protect precious companions, and prevent further nightmares.
Digital Smash’s President, David Klein said: “We’re thrilled to
be publishing Toy Odyssey on console. As soon as we saw the
style and quality, we knew this was a terrific indie title that
needed to be exposed to a wider audience here in the West, to
take the game more globally. Toy Odyssey takes some of the most
recognizable elements (i.e. platforming, RPG mechanics,
procedural-generation) from games many of us played in our
youth, and brings along the difficulty that many modern games
just don’t give anymore. No hand holding. This game is a
beautifully crafted example of indie talent paying homage to
games of yesteryear.”
Hiker Games is enthusiastic about the prospect of working
alongside Digital Smash. Nguyen Vu Phuong, Team Lead at Hiker
Games explained his thoughts on the partnership, “We are very
excited and proud to be affiliated with Digital Smash. Their
commitment to the project and enthusiasm proves that the console
versions of Toy Odyssey are in very good hands.” He continued,
“Toy Odyssey takes the scary dreams we all had to deal with as
kids and turns them into a fluid, imaginative platformer with
Rogue-lite elements. It plays like many of the games we enjoyed
growing up, but with beautiful graphics, sound, and gameplay.”
Key Features
● Unlimited replayability with procedural level generation
● Metroidvania style puzzles and missions
● Hard-as-nails gameplay as a dedication to the difficulty of
classic games
● Beautifully detailed art, reminiscent of classic 8-bit and
16-bit platformers
● Over 30,000 lines of (skippable) dialog for those that want a
good story
● Hundreds of weapon and item upgrades with a detailed crafting
system
● More than 300 types of enemies, as well as seven terrifying
bosses, all on the path to stop you
● Base Defense gameplay mechanics: Protect the bedroom at all
costs!
No word on a physical copy of this game at this time. Families
are required to pay for Internet usage fees to download this
game. For more information click
here.