Hey Poor Player's Alex Lupella writes - "Defunct is a simple game with a lot on its plate despite first glances. You’re a cute wheelie robot that falls out of its cargo ship. Find your way home! That’s about it. When talking about Defunct with a fellow PoorPlayer, he joked about it sounded like the plot to a Pixar movie, and that’s fairly accurate. Self described as an indie adventure game with focus on flow and speed, it delivers on every aspect."
In Defunct you play as a nameless robot who accidentally falls out of a cargo ship onto a human-less planet Earth.
Defunct offers an incredibly fast-paced adventuring experience, but it's brought down by its short length and shoddy performance on Switch.
Released at the end of 2017 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, Defunct has now been ported across to Nintendo Switch. The question is did we need it? At a glance Defunct looks like a run of the mill runner style game, however, in essence, this game is closer to Sonic Adventure although don’t read too much into that. The point of the game is to make it from point A to point B by finding the path with the least form of resistance.
Hey, sometimes the simpler plots are the best.