SMELTING POT

SMELTER combines side-scrolling action levels with a real-time strategy map.

- Eric Watson

NEED TO KNOW

WHAT IS IT? 60% pixelated action-platformer, 30% real-time tower defence strategy, 10% top-down shoot-’em-up

EXPECT TO PAY £15.50

DEVELOPER X PLUS Company Limited

PUBLISHER DANGEN Entertainment, Gamera Game

REVIEWED ON Windows 10, AMD FX 8350 Eight-Core, Radeon RX 580, 24GB RAM

MULTIPLAYER No

LINK dangenentertainment.com

The story of Smelter begins with Adam and Eve and the downfall of Eden, and ends with freeing an empress from a crystal prison and racing to stop a megalomaniac demon from taking over what I presume is a section of Hell. It’s a side-scrolling action-platformer with a real-time strategy overland map, a tower-defence strategy game and a top-down shoot-’em-up, interweaving multiple indie-friendly genres – and not for its benefit.