A new kind of beat-em-up. Like a lot of 2D brawlers (including Dotemu hits like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge), Absolum looks fairly straightforward at a surface glance. When ...

Absolum's mix of side-scrolling beat-'em-up and roguelike action-RPG is the perfect example. ... As you beat bosses, you open up new options on the over-arcing world map for future runs.

A side scroller beat ‘em up game that took inspiration from the 90s arcade games we all know and love, Fight’N Rage is set et in a distant future where humans are enslaved by disturbing mutants.

While beat 'em ups have had a bit of a resurgence in recent times – with the likes of River City Girls, Streets of Rage 4, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge being lauded ...

Whenever I’m in a gaming rut and not sure what to play, I know I can always boot up a beat ’em up like Street of Rage 4, Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons, or Castle Crashers and have ...

Now, the beat ‘em up kings are back with an all-new game that serves as a spiritual successor to Streets of Rage 4 and much more. ... Upon acquiring the world map, ...

7 beat 'em up classics we want Dotemu to revive. ... Streets of Rage 4 practically put them on the map, in terms of a publisher putting out old-school revivals. Chances are, ...

River City Girls 2, developed by Wayforward, is a pixel art action beat ‘em up that takes place right off the heels of the first game.In its opening moments, the rough-and-tumble sukeban duo of ...

Amazonian Roguelike Beat-'Em-Up Tunche Is Coming To Switch In March 2021. Tunche even has A Hat In Time's protagonist, Hat Kid, as a playable character.

During today’s Nintendo Direct, Capcom Beat-Em-Up Bundle was announced, set to arrive next week for Nintendo Switch. The package includes seven popular beat-em-up brawlers, including Final Fight ...

The beat-em-up, aka the brawler, brewed the perfect mix of colorful graphics, hard-hitting feedback, and fast gameplay for arcades in the '80s and '90s.

It’s a co-op, fantasy beat-em-up that infuses an old genre with roguelike progression hooks. Ahead of its reveal, I got my feet wet in a few Absolum runs across a 90 minute session.