Microids have announced they will be bringing Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty to Nintendo Switch, along with a release date, and physical version.
A remake of Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee, players must guide Mudokon Abe in a 2.5D puzzle platformer, saving fellow Mudokon salves from Rupture Farms from becoming the next food product. The remake added difficulty settings, more randomly generated AI, and online leaderboards.
Microids state the game will be coming to retail and the Nintendo eShop. The physical and limited editions are also available for pre-order now via retailers. As stated in the press release (via Go Nintendo, though not in the press release via GamesPress) the Limited Edition includes a lenticular box, keychain, and stickers.
You can find the announcement trailer below.
You can find the full rundown (via Steam) below.
Back To Oddworld
Explore ancient ruins, dodge carnivorous beasts and avoid trigger-happy guards as Abe, the original Oddworld hero in this lovingly recrafted, built from the ground-up and totally recooked take on the classic adventure Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee.
Once a happy floor waxer in Oddworld’s biggest meat processing plant, Abe stumbles across his boss’s secret plan to turn the factory’s slave labor force into the latest in the RuptureFarms Tasty Treats line of novelty meat snacks. Abe now has to save his own skin from the grinders, but simply escaping the flesh farm is only the start of his Oddysee – for many dangers await Abe on his journey to discover his destiny.
Built from scratch from the ground up, enjoy new breathtaking visuals, enhanced audio and improved, deeper gameplay as New ‘n’ Tasty reignites the original Oddworld game using the latest next-generation technology.
Amazing new graphics
With art direction from series creator Lorne Lanning, Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty offers a view into Oddworld with fidelity never seen before. Fluid animation, new free-moving cameras and high resolution (up to 4K) visuals make RuptureFarms and the surrounding areas look incredible, creating the Oddworld that Lanning always wanted to see.
Revamped controls
Analog controls offer more subtle control over Abe, and new tricks like free aiming, the ability to drop grenades behind you and also sneak whilst crouching open up new avenues for stealthy tactics and inventive speed-running. Optional ‘Old School’ controls bring back hopping and digital movement too, so the Oddysee purists can get started with some familiarity.
Brand new areas, brand new secrets
From the murky grime of RuptureFarms to the expansive native lands of the Monsaic Lines, through to the vast temples of Scrabania and Paramonia, Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty boasts new areas, subtle gameplay changes and a few surprises. Fans will recognise the huge meat grinders, Scrab holding pens and cavernous caves, but there’s more than enough that’s new here to keep you on your toes.
Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty is available on Windows PC, Linux, Mac (all via GOG, and Steam), PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Wii U, Android, iOS, and October 2020 on Nintendo Switch.
