Sektori, one of last year’s best games – and a game so closely related to twin-stick shooter Geometry Wars they could be the same thing – has finally arrived on Nintendo Switch 2.
The game’s developer, Kimmo Lahtinen – a 13-year veteran of Returnal and Saros developer Housemarque – shared a trailer of Sektori running on Switch 2, while suggesting the game may have us tear our hearts out in frustration. But reader, it won’t. Indeed, Chris was so positive about the game last year that he said you should, “Drop everything and play Sektori.” And he’s our editor-in-chief now so I think I have to agree with everything he says?
I kid. I’ve played Sektori myself and been similarly entranced. It’s very close to Geometry Wars on a superficial level; it’s an arcade twin-stick shooter where you pilot a little ship around enclosed spaces while blasting away hordes of colourful, encroaching, simple-shaped enemies. And that frantic feeling of overwhelm that made Geometry Wars so thrilling, both to play and watch? Sektori recreates that immediately.
But beneath the surface are some new ideas. There’s an upgrade system that allows you to hoard and spend currency when you want, depending on the upgrade you want – do you save or do you spend? The playing arenas also periodically fracture into new shapes, as though you were looking at them through a kaleidoscope. There are bosses, too, and that’s in just one of the game’s modes. There’s a lot more here.
Sektori was released last November on PC (Steam), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X, right in the busy season, which is why it might have passed you by. Its arrival on Switch 2 is a wonderful excuse to resurface it.
