Rami Ismail's Australia Did It Sets November 10 Steam Launch
Rami Ismail's name carries weight from Vlambeer, and a Steam demo with Japanese text support gives the game a concrete footing before launch rather than just an announcement.
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Publisher Mystic Forge announced on October 16 that Australia Did It, from Rami Ismail and Aesthetician Labs, will launch on November 10, which is November 11 in Japan due to time zone differences. The PC game on Steam combines turn-based tower defense at stations with bullet-hell auto-battle while the train moves. A demo is available.
The game splits into two distinct modes. At stations, players set square barricades around the train and place mercenary units to intercept approaching insects such as grasshoppers and cockroaches. Units can be hired with currency dropped by defeated enemies.
Between stations, the perspective shifts to an almost directly overhead view of the train as it pushes through enemies pressing in from all sides. Units attack automatically, and the player swaps among six units, three on the front line and three in reserve, and can call a manual attack called Focus Fire.
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