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Gear Gauntlet

Gear Gauntlet is a fun but rage inducing 2D action arcade game from Drop Dead Interactive. Test your patience through ever more punishing gauntlets while boosting, teleporting, reversing and rotating to survive. Use your reflexes to break through coloured barriers and earn your place on the leaderboard.

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Drop Dead Interactive
Publisher
Drop Dead Interactive
Release
November 1, 2016
9 years and 276 days ago
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Gear Gauntlet is a fun but rage inducing 2D action arcade game from Drop Dead Interactive.

Test your patience through ever more punishing gauntlets while boosting, teleporting, reversing and rotating to survive. Use your reflexes to break through coloured barriers and earn your place on the leaderboard.

Beautiful hand drawn art and a wonderful soundtrack accompany your descent into fury, but do try to remain calm!

Can you survive the Gear Gauntlet?
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