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SWORDSHIP

Developer Digital Kingdom

Publisher Thunderful

Format PC, PS4, Xbox One

Origin Switzerland

Release Summer

Making a shoot-’em-up without any shooting feels like a bold move, but it makes a kind of sense: after all, bullet-hell shooters have always tilted the balance towards avoidance. The emphasis is less on where you’re firing and more on jinking out of tight spots, threading your vulnerable ship through a colourful onslaught of glowing death focuses purely on that adrenaline rush of survival: staring down death and then deftly swerving it at the last possible moment.

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