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10tons Announces Launch of Xenoraid on Nintendo Switch Today, CRIMSONLAND Coming Next Week

10tons Announces Launch of Xenoraid on Nintendo Switch Today, CRIMSONLAND Coming Next Week

Tampere, Finland, November 17th 2017 – Xenoraid, a vertically scrolling shooter from Finnish developer 10tons Ltd., is now available for Nintendo Switch. The game is priced $9.99 USD with a launch week discount of 10%, bringing the price down to $8.99 USD.

”Xenoraid is a novel take on the classic vertically scrolling shooter formula. Fighter switching, focus on skilled shooting, and squadron management metagame make the game a unique title, worthy of every shooter enthusiast’s attention. No bullet hell experience required!” says Tero Alatalo, CEO of 10tons Ltd.

Xenoraid is a vertically scrolling shoot’em with procedurally driven missions, a novel real time fighter switching feature, near future scifi theme, and a strategic squadron management metagame. Three endless survival levels with online leaderboards provide replay value.

Xenoraid Key Features:

  • Experience dynamic shoot’em up action with no level memorization
  • Switch between four fighters in the heat of combat
  • Manage your squadron with weapon and tech upgrades
  • Master advanced shooting mechanics like fighter tilting and weapon heat
  • Fight through a Campaign mode with more than 40 missions and four boss fights
  • Compete in three endless Survival stages with online leaderboards

10tons Announces Launch of Xenoraid on Nintendo Switch Today, CRIMSONLAND Coming Next Week

Crimsonland, wonderful cult classic arena shooter 10tons is built on, is coming to Switch next Friday, November 24th. The game is priced $13.99 USD (€13.99 EUR).

Originally released in 2003 and remastered in 2014 (we’re talking about the remastered here), it still hasn’t been matched in the classic Survival mode’s intense epicness. Getting 100k score is thrilling fun, getting a million is cute, and when you cross the 100 million mark with the screen literally full of monsters and the game choking to unreal nightmare, you’ll start to get it.

”Crimsonland was originally launched in 2003 and soon became very popular. In fact, we founded 10tons on the success of Crimsonland! We remastered the game in 2014, and have been working on the remaster ever since. It’s amazing to be able to bring the best ever version of the game to Switch!” says Tero Alatalo, CEO of 10tons Ltd.

Crimsonland is a top-down twin stick arena shooter. Hallmarks of the game include the epic endless Survival mode, massive amounts of monsters on the screen simultaneously, dozens and dozens of weapons, perks, and levels, as well as immensely gratifying powerups. The game also features local co-op for up to four players.

Key Features:

  • 60 quests in the Quest mode
  • Up to four player local co-op
  • Five survival modes: Survival, Rush, Blitz, Weapon Picker, and Nukefism
  • 32 unique weapons
  • 55 awesome perks

Crimsonland will be coming to Nintendo Switch November 24, 2017. You can download the game now for PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Xbox One, Steam, the App Store and  Google Play.

Related: XENORAID Vertically Scrolling Shoot’em up Game Now Available in Google Play

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