- 57/100
- Players8 ratings
- 85/100
- Critics1 review
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- Metacritic15 critic reviews
- 80/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 74/100
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 5/5
- Player reviews
- 90% positive3,800 reviews
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- Verified
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- Windows, Linux
- Price
- US$24.99
Where to get it
2020 · Digital Cybercherries · Action · Action-adventure
Hypercharge: Unboxed
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Grab a friend and protect the Hypercore. Hypercharge is a solo and co-op wave-based first/third-person shooter with a small twist: you're an action figure! Explore. Defend. Survive.
- Released
- 31 January 2020
- Platforms
- LinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4PlayStation 5WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/S
- Genres
- ActionAction-adventureAdventureCasualIndiePlatformerShooterStrategy
- Developers
- Digital Cybercherries
- Publishers
- Digital Cybercherries
- Modes
- MultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- First personThird person
- Themes
- ActionKidsParty
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Age ratings
- GRAC ALLESRB TPEGI 12ACB MUSK 16CLASS_IND 10
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, English (UK), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian and 1 more
- Copies sold
- 100,000 as of 2024-07-01
- Time to beat
- 7hmain story8hcompletionist
About
Hypercharge: Unboxed is a 2020 shooter game developed and published by Digital Cybercherries. The game is set in various domestic and retail environments, including bedrooms, garages, bathrooms, gardens, and toy stores, where players assume the role of an action figure.
The primary objective is to defend a central object, referred to as the Hypercore, from successive waves of hostile, animated toys. The main adversary in the game is a character named Major Evil, who leads the attacks against the Hypercore. The narrative suggests that failure to defend the Hypercore would result in humans forgetting about their childhood action figures. The game introduces a character, Sgt. Max Ammo, who plays a significant role in the storyline as the leader of the defense efforts.
›Story
The player assumes the role of a Small Plastic Soldier and must scavenge the environment for resources in order to construct turrets, build defences and protect the HYPER-CORE. The environment is much larger than the player making every normal household item an obstacle. The HYPER-CORE is powered by a battery and the player must explore the environment to find one, ensuring the HYPER-CORE is always operational. Nostalgic waves of weaponised toys attack from different directions and locations.
They will stop at nothing to destroy the HYPER-CORE, the players and their defences. The player progresses by completing each level, earning XP and unlocking unique skins and characters, giving the opportunity to customise their action figure to their liking. The gameplay evokes nostalgic memories from those who grew up in the 80ies and the 90ies, and at the same time makes it accessible for new audiences to pick up and play the game.
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Gameplay
Hypercharge: Unboxed is designed to support cooperative gameplay, allowing for 1-4 players in online and local co-op modes, with difficulty scaling to accommodate the number of players. It also supports offline play with player bots, full split-screen for online/local co-op, and features both a wave-based shooter mode with a story campaign
and classic player versus player modes accommodating up to eight players.
Development
Digital Cybercherries were awarded an Unreal Dev Grant which helped to further fund Hypercharge: Unboxed. It is built in the Unreal Engine 4.
The game was released on the Nintendo eShop on 31 January 2020 and on Steam on 27 April.
Reception
Hypercharge: Unboxed received "generally favorable" reviews from critics for the Xbox Series X version, while the Nintendo Switch version received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received fair approval, being recommended by 73% of critics.
Kotaku commended the game for its mechanics, noting, "what is here is solid. Guns feel good, enemies react when you shoot them, and movement is fast and snappy." Similarly, Nintendo Life highlighted its multiplayer appeal, stating, "Great fun if you can muster together enough friends."
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