In September of last year, after more than a year of updating long-dead mobile games for modern hardware and adding them to their gaming subscription service, GameClub announced that their next phase would be to bring PC games to mobile. There are plenty of games that are well-loved on PC and seem well-suited to a mobile adaptation, but the developers of those games just don’t have the resources to do a mobile port or the ability to risk taking on the notoriously brutal mobile market. That’s where GameClub comes in. With their subscription model and a crack team of in-house developers, they have the means to bring games from PC to mobile where they can reach an entirely new audience.
The first of these PC to mobile endeavors for GameClub was the awesome point-and-click adventure game Chook & Sosig: Walk the Plank from TookiPalooki, which arrived in October. Today they’ve released the second of their previously announced PC to mobile ports, and this time it is the incredibly stylish open-world isometric shooter Tokyo 42. Here’s a trailer.
As you can see, Tokyo 42 has this really cool low-poly, retro-future style and a killer soundtrack to go with it. As the story goes, you’re just chilling one night watching TV in your Tokyo apartment, when suddenly a newscast interrupts your show to report that there’s been a murder! But it’s ok, because they’ve found the culprit? and that culprit is you! Obviously YOU know you di...