Acrobatic space pirate roguelike Flinthook is coming to Switch next week

Developer Tribute Games has announced that its acrobatic, intergalactic pirate adventure Flinthook will be coming to Nintendo Switch next week on March 9th.

Flinthook is a roguelike action platformer - with a wonderfully chunky, pseudo-retro art style - which casts you as the lovable spacefaring scallywag, Captain Flinthook. The jury still seems to be out on whether he's an actual ghost pirate or just has a sheet on its head.

Broadly speaking, your goal is navigate and plunder an increasingly elaborate array of space galleons - procedurally generated dungeons consisting of smallish, arena-like stages. To aid in your pillaging, you're armed with a plasma gun and a hookshot, enabling you to latch onto notches around a stage in order to zip about with reckless, adventurous abandon.

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