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2016 · Adventure · Indie

Defunct

Defunct is an indie adventure game with a focus on flow, speed and an engaging world. You are a broken robot that accidentally falls out of a giant cargo ship onto a post-human Earth, now inhabited by robots. You have to get back to your ship before it’s too late!

Released: 29 January 2016
Platforms: Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 Windows Xbox One
Genres: Adventure Indie Post-apocalyptic Racing
Developers: —
Publishers: Soedesco
Modes: Single-player
Themes: Action Science fiction Kids
Age ratings: PEGI 3 ESRB E CERO A ACB G GRAC ALL
Languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian and 12 more
Time to beat: 1.5hmain story6hcompletionist

About

Defunct is an indie adventure video game developed by the Swedish indie video game development studio Freshly Squeezed from Visby. The game received several nominations at the 2014 Swedish Game Awards, where it won Game of the Year. It was also nominated for Best Student Project at the 2014 Unity Awards.

In March 2015, it was announced that Freshly Squeezed had signed a publishing deal with the Dutch video game publisher Soedesco. The release date was originally expected to be in Q3, 2015, for PC. However, it was pushed back, and the game was released on Steam on January 29, 2016.

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Gameplay

The game is set on a post-human Earth, where the player plays as an old, broken racing robot. Players are barely able to move by themselves and are therefore required to use the environment for propulsion by utilizing the "Gravitize" ability to increase their gravitational pull. By turning this ability on when going downhill, the player will go faster; turning it off when going uphill will result in less of a decrease in speed.

There are speed boosts throughout the levels, either in the shape of little orbs which give the player a short burst of speed or as bottles or pools of "Enerjuice" which fill up a blue meter and can be used whenever the player chooses.

Reception

On Metacritic, the Nintendo Switch version of Defunct received a score of 57 out of 100, based on reviews from 5 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". A review from Digitally Downloaded gave the version a rating of 3.5 of 5 stars. PlayStation Country gave a score of 4 out of 10 points for the PlayStation 4 version.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Platform	Released	Regions
Windows	29 January 2016	Worldwide
Xbox One	19 December 2017	Worldwide · North America 19 December 2017
PlayStation 4	19 December 2017	Worldwide
Nintendo Switch	13 September 2018	North America · Worldwide 13 September 2018