REPLACED is one of those games that makes a massive impact on you from the very first frame, as the pixelated dystopic world burns into your retinas. It’s an unbelievably gorgeous game in motion, but underneath the dazzling veneer is a fascinating fusion of mechanics from distinct pillars of the action genre, put together in a way that I haven’t often seen before. Even though I only had roughly an hour with REPLACED, I’m already hopeful that the long wait for it might have paid off.

At first glance, REPLACED might look like it fits squarely in the Cyberpunk genre, but things are a little more complicated than that. The twist here is that the game takes place in an alternate 1980s America, in a landscape scarred by nuclear war. REPLACED does have that neon-lite Cyberpunk aesthetic, but mixes it with a retrofuturist slant, taking you through desolate eclectic cities filled with dilapidated buildings. You take on the role of an artificial intelligence named R.E.A.C.H., trapped in... Read more