Nobody Saves the World's Lack of Couch Co-Op is a Big Missed Opportunity
Massive AAA releases tend to define any given year for the video game industry, with titles like Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, God of War Ragnarok, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 currently set in 2022's line-up. However, indie games have become just as likely to catch attention en masse. Phasmophobia and Among Us broke through the noise in 2020, for example, and 2021 saw widespread discussion of games like Loop Hero and Unpacking. One of the first break-out indie hits this year appears to be Nobody Saves the World.
Drinkbox Studios; a Canadian developer whose previous works include Guacamelee! 1 and 2, Severed, and Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack; released Nobody Saves the World on January 18 for PC and Xbox consoles. It was the studio's most successful Steam launch, according to a January 19 tweet by Drinkbox, and it also released day-one on Xbox Game Pass. However, the game's co-op elements are only available online, which is a shame for anyone looking to play locally with friends and family.
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Nobody Saves the World is a top-down action-RPG starring Nobody, a "pale androgynous humanoid" with amnesia and a wand allowing them to transform. Nobody can take on 17 additional forms over the course of the adventure, which is set in a cartoonish world dripping with tongue-in-cheek humor and unabashed references to the games industry at large. Each form offers its own set of attacks, including a signature move, and passive abilities. Players are also able to mix-and-match abilities if they so choose, leading to a game with tons of variation and quick decision-making.
Even more important is the game's co-op elements. Nobody Saves the World
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