Underplayed Gems

Bookbound Brigade (2020)

Bookbound Brigade cover
Developer
Digital Tales
Publisher
Intragames
Platforms
PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch
Genres
Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Rating
3.3 of 5, 3 player ratings
Where to get it
Nintendo eShop

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How it feels

A frantic, mash-up adventure where you swap between literary icons to punch and platform through a storybook world gone wild.

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About

Bookbound Brigade is about beating the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school by leading a dream team of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure. It will take the likes of Dracula, King Arthur, Queen Victoria, Nikola Tesla, Cassandra, Dorothy Gale, Sun Wukong the Monkey King and Robin Hood to assemble and avenge a world plunged into chaos following the theft of the ‘Book of Books’, a volume encompassing every single work of fiction and non-fiction ever written.

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