· TENS! features clever puzzles and vibrant characters across various modes including local multiplayer, a single player adventure and a score-chasing endless mode
· TENS! is the first PC and console release from UK games publisher Kwalee
· Kwalee is owned by gaming legend David Darling, who previously founded Codemasters in the 1980s and launched franchises such as Micro Machines
November 2020: TENS!, an engrossing new puzzle game from Kwalee, is available now on the Nintendo Switch eShop and Steam for PC and Mac.
Combining Sudoku-style number puzzles and Tetris-style block-dropping mechanics, the aim of the game in TENS! is a simple one: to place dice on the board, make tens in any row or column and clear the board to win!
But this is easier said than done, with players up against various game modes that keep the challenges coming. For the traditionalists, TENS! features an endless mode into which you can sink hours to hone skills and keep improving your high score. However, at the centre of the game is the TENS! adventure map, where the player must progress through 70+ puzzle levels in a weird and vibrant world of meat-headed monsters in the mountains, aliens that like to turn cattle into dice, and lady luck herself.
There are also fresh gameplay twists to contend with. These include special tiles that teleport dice placed on them to random parts of the board, or even destroy them entirely, upping the difficulty and pressure to make a ten.
A further competitive edge is added with adventure mode boss fights, where you’ll take on crazy TENS! masters in order to complete the map. Then there’s local multiplayer, which pits friends against one another in a race to make TENS! the fastest and thwart one another’s moves.
With its brain-teasing gameplay that rewards and encourages smart mathematical play, TENS! has something to offer players of all ages who want to test their numerical skills, or to simply while away the hours embarking on a fun puzzle adventure.
Publisher Kwalee, who up until now has been focused on mobile gaming but contains key figures behind games such as Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Micro Machines and NBA Jam, feels that TENS! is ideal for its first foray into the Switch world. This feature-packed puzzle game represents a natural evolution of their expertise in mobile, built from the ground up for the console and PC audience.
CEO David Darling, CBE commented: “The Nintendo Switch and PC gaming are really popular within the Kwalee studio, with many of us being avid players on these platforms, so creating a game for the likes of Steam and the Switch has been on our minds for quite some time.
We’ve always been focused on games that appeal to everyone, and TENS! is a great example of that. The bosses, the unique puzzles and the core gameplay itself present a challenge to whoever picks it up, so we’re excited to see people playing, making TENS! and what the future could hold for the game and our work on these platforms!”
TENS! is now available from the Nintendo Switch eShop and Steam (PC and Mac). To see the game’s trailer, a selection of screenshots, links to eShop and Steam pages and more, please visit: kwalee.com/tens
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For further information please contact:
· Matt Suckley: matt.suckley@kwalee.com
About Kwalee:
Kwalee was founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, who is joined by a team of industry experts. Kwalee’s mobile games, which include the likes of Let’s Be Cops 3D, Draw It, Shootout 3D and Rocket Sky!, have racked up more than 450 million worldwide downloads and 20 number one positions to date! Alongside this worldwide reputation in mobile gaming, the company is expanding its reach into Switch and PC with TENS!