Sci-fi top-down twin-stick shooter Gunpig: Firepower For Hire hitting Switch in December

Flynns Arcade has announced that it’s bringing LaPointe Joints’ sci-fi top-down twin-stick shooter Gunpig: Firepower For Hire to Switch. A release is planned for December 3.

Here’s an overview of the game, along with a trailer:

Hop into your teeny tank and blast the Chrysophods…fast, fun, arcade style action!

Join alien pest control specialist (and possibly shortest mercenary in the galaxy) Bax Torpini, as he fights to rid Stalwart Academy, a school space station, of a rogue horde of out-of-control robot space monsters!

•Top-down twin-stick shooter game!

•Classic arcade shoot-’em-up action, with 8 levels, 2 bonus levels, 9 weapons and 3 alt fires

•Quickly swap weapons as often as you want using the ‘GunMod pad’ system!

•Special hidden ‘Bax Card’ art card collectibles throughout the game, each illustrated by a different indie artist

Gunpig: Firepower For Hire will cost $4.99 on the Switch eShop.

Source: Flynns Arcade PR