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Throughout yesterday’s Home of Indies broadcast, Nintendo introduced that Hopoo Video games’ Threat of Rain Returns will probably be coming to the Swap platform in 2023, alongside its beforehand introduced PC launch.

Revealed by Gearbox, Threat of Rain Returns is a remastered and enhanced version of the smash hit 2013 platformer, initially devised by two Washington College college students utilizing Gamemaker growth software program. Gamers participate in a difficult race in opposition to time, as stranded house explorers who should rapidly and effectively mount a protection in opposition to monumental waves of aliens and monsters. Easy in idea however vastly compelling, Threat of Rain would go on to promote over 4 million copies and be the recipient of a number of awards throughout the artistic sphere.

Threat of Rain Returns is a completely revised model of the unique sport, which options remastered visuals, (properly, as a lot as you may “remaster” 8-bit graphics), 15 distinctive Survivor courses, 10 run-altering Artifacts, and absolutely overhauled multiplayer modes — that includes help for one-to-four gamers in on-line and native co-op motion. Whereas the sport itself is now approaching its tenth anniversary, the Threat of Rain gameplay stays as frenzied and engrossing at present because it was a decade in the past. Time to get misplaced, over again.

Threat of Rain Returns launches in 2023 on PC and Nintendo Swap.