Hazard: Let Us Out -- The Popgeeks Review

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A new NES game is coming in 2025 — and we’ve played it! Hazard: Let Us Out is currently midway through its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, where both physical NES carts and digital files are up for sale. The copy I was given for review should be pretty close to the final product, minus a couple of bugs. You play the nameless new employee of a robot factory. On his first day, something goes wrong and the robots become sentient and evil at the same time. Everyone at the factory is now the prisoner of the robots, unless you can find a way to escape (and possibly take the other employees with you). This all happened in the recent past, actually — there’s a framing device of the main character telling the game’s story to a policeman, where he’s being held at the station due to the events of the previous hours. I played my review copy properly, on a real NES hooked up to a CRT television. Zero latency, baby! It’s worth noting that choosing to play on a CRT will crop some of the top HUD information off. Some NES homebrewers design their games so this doesn’t happen. It’s […]
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A new NES game is coming in 2025 -- and we've played it! Hazard: Let Us Out is currently midway through its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, where both...

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[Travis]

I get the appeal of revisiting the NES era, but I wonder how much of this is driven by genuine innovation versus nostalgia. The moral choice system and branching endings sound cool, but is it enough to elevate this beyond other NES homebrews? The $60 price tag for a physical cart seems steep for what’s described as a short game. I’d need to see more to justify the investment.

 

[NintendoRepairman87]

Wow, I’m impressed by the features this team has implemented using the NESMaker engine. Moving platforms and custom AI are no small feat within the constraints of NES hardware. The moral choice system also adds a modern flair that many homebrews lack. Even if the game is short, the craftsmanship behind it seems to justify the asking price.