Review: Yurukill: The Calumniation Games
destructoid.comA few days ago, our own Noelle Warner shared a piece that rejoiced in her newfound obsession with video game genre mash-ups. While experimenting with genre combinations has long been a celebrated tradition of this industry, there is something about the mashups we’ve seen in recent years that sets them apart from those that emerged in the infancy and adolescence of this medium. Neon White is easily the current poster child for the practice, but past titles like Crypt of the NecroDancer, Battle Chef Brigade, and Yoku’s Island Express show what’s possible when you really think outside the box.
Yurukill: The Calumniation Games is yet another wild combination of two genres, taking age-old shoot ‘em up gameplay and pairing it with the currently popular escape room narrative adventures. It’s a unique mashup for sure, but are these two tastes too different to taste great together?
Yurukill: The Calumniation Games (Nintendo Switch [reviewed], PC, PS4, PS5)Developer: IzanagiGames, Inc., G.RevPublisher: NIS AmericaReleased: July 5, 2022 (Console), July 8, 2022 (PC)MSRP: $39.99 (Digital), $49.99 (Physical)
Dark and deadly games of survival have been a particular favorite of mine since I first escaped a flooding cabin room on the Gigantic back in 2010. There is just something about the escape room genre that always hooks me in, something that Yurukill: The Calumniation Games immediately taps into with its sinister setup. Five teams of strangers, each made up of at least one Prisoner and one Executioner, have been brought to the hauntingly extravagant theme park Yurukill Land to play a little game. The Prisoners are people who’ve been found guilty of a heinous crime, while the Executioners are those who have some sort of connection to
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