Rob Pitt writes: Do you like speed? Check. Do you like adventure? Check. Do you like spending half of a game getting used to the controls and then starting to enjoy the game more? Erm… I’ll get back to you on that one! Defunct, developed by Freshly Squeezed and published by Soedesco, has been available on PC for a while and has received ‘mostly positive’ reviews on Steam. Here in Europe, we received the game on PS4 almost a month after the American PS4 version due to an unforeseen delay! I had been looking forward to playing Defunct ever since I saw it as what’s not to like? Speed, action, a unicycle robot who looks like Wall-E v 2.0! However, not everything is smooth sailing – come for a ride with me as I see if this game is Defunct in more ways than one…
In Defunct you play as a nameless robot who accidentally falls out of a cargo ship onto a human-less planet Earth.
Defunct offers an incredibly fast-paced adventuring experience, but it's brought down by its short length and shoddy performance on Switch.
Released at the end of 2017 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, Defunct has now been ported across to Nintendo Switch. The question is did we need it? At a glance Defunct looks like a run of the mill runner style game, however, in essence, this game is closer to Sonic Adventure although don’t read too much into that. The point of the game is to make it from point A to point B by finding the path with the least form of resistance.
