Sector 98

Genre: Platformer

Players: 1

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Review:

(Note: This game is included in 2D Indie Bundle, along with Airship Defender, Boxerpunk Stories, Chip and Charge, Enduring Mountain, Fightro, Frogice, Frogy World, Hopping Bunny, Invasion Waves, Kattish, Lost Chiko, Mechapunk, Melonizard, Pandaty, Pipe Dream, Rattyvity Lab, Sentry Paragon, Skeljump, Tempoknight, Tiny Whaley, Turret Lab, Vigour, Wampir Dungeon, Webgeon Speedrun Edition, and Yello Adventures.)

Sector 98 is a challenging Platformer released in 2024 on Nintendo Switch. In this game, players control an anthropomorphic robot moving through a facility, collecting floating remote controls, and then getting to an outlet and plugging in.

The presentation here makes use of 2D pixel art visuals that look decent enough, if a bit lacking in variety. This is backed by a repetitive synthesized soundtrack that’s not terrible but definitely nothing noteworthy.

If it worked, Sector 98 would be a decent if completely unoriginal and forgettable Platformer with a frustratingly small jump. The problem is, it doesn’t work. The game frequently fails to detect button presses, resulting in countless deaths. This isn’t a “once in a while” thing either – you’ll be lucky to get through a level without dying due to this issue numerous times.

Simply put, Sector 98 is broken. It aims to be a pretty mediocre Platformer, and even at this unambitious goal this game fails miserably, due to poor, unreliable controls. Even at its low $1 price, this game is not worth it.

tl;dr – Sector 98 is a Platformer that has a robot collecting remote controls and getting to an outlet. This would have been a mediocre Platformer, but it is rendered virtually unplayable by terrible, spotty, unreliable controls. Skip this one.

Grade: F

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