{"id":1935155,"date":"2026-05-14T16:28:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1935155"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:28:45","slug":"attention-geometry-wars-fans-sektori-is-one-of-last-years-best-arcade-shooters-and-its-out-on-switch-2-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1935155","title":{"rendered":"Attention Geometry Wars fans! Sektori is one of last year&#8217;s best arcade shooters, and it&#8217;s out on Switch 2 today"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/sektori\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Sektori<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">Attention Geometry Wars fans! Sektori is one of last year&#8217;s best arcade shooters, and it&#8217;s out on Switch 2 today<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Retro evolved.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/sektori_KfGAqSx.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"A bright red hexagonal explosion with a little circular line-drawn ship in the middle responsible for it. What a big mess for such a small thing. Can I say that?\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"sektori_KfGAqSx.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Eurogamer \/ Kimmo Factor Oy<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/robert-purchese\">Robert Purchese<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Associate Editor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-05-14T16:28:45+00:00\">May 14, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/attention-geometry-wars-fans-sektori-is-one-of-last-years-best-arcade-shooters-and-its-out-on-switch-2-today?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          2 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"8fa30c28-c86a-47f9-a205-04e8255a213e\" data-name=\"Sektori\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Sektori\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Sektori\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Sektori\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Sektori\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Sektori\" title=\"Follow Sektori\"><br \/>\n  Follow Sektori<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Sektori, one of last year&#8217;s best games &#8211; and a game so closely related to twin-stick shooter Geometry Wars they could be the same thing &#8211; has finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/en-gb\/Games\/Nintendo-Switch-2-games\/Sektori-3080786.html?srsltid=AfmBOoogfOa9Q44eQF4bYDzGgpUdNDRcT6VidMVyZP-FgkoquGWuqzgT\">arrived on Nintendo Switch 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s developer, Kimmo Lahtinen &#8211; a 13-year veteran of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/returnal\">Returnal<\/a> and Saros developer Housemarque &#8211; shared a trailer of <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/gimblll.com\/post\/3mlsxk6lmsc2r\">Sektori running on Switch 2<\/a>, while suggesting the game may have us tear our hearts out in frustration. But reader, it won&#8217;t. Indeed, Chris was so positive about the game last year that he said you should, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/drop-everything-and-play-sektori\">&#8220;Drop everything and play Sektori.&#8221;<\/a> And he&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/hello-eurogamer-new-editor-in-chief-chris-tapsell\">our editor-in-chief now<\/a> so I think I have to agree with everything he says?<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Sektori - Switch 2 Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8IQEWAmYr2c?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/8IQEWAmYr2c\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Sektori &#8211; Switch 2 Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Sektori on Switch 2. Wear those thumbsticks out.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8IQEWAmYr2c\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I kid. I&#8217;ve played Sektori myself and been similarly entranced. It&#8217;s very close to Geometry Wars on a superficial level; it&#8217;s an arcade twin-stick shooter where you pilot a little ship around enclosed spaces while blasting away hordes of colourful, encroaching, simple-shaped enemies. And that frantic feeling of overwhelm that made Geometry Wars so thrilling, both to play and watch? Sektori recreates that immediately.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But beneath the surface are some new ideas. There&#8217;s an upgrade system that allows you to hoard and spend currency when you want, depending on the upgrade you want &#8211; do you save or do you spend? The playing arenas also periodically fracture into new shapes, as though you were looking at them through a kaleidoscope. There are bosses, too, and that&#8217;s in just one of the game&#8217;s modes. There&#8217;s a lot more here.<\/p>\n<p>Sektori was released last November on PC (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2105620\/Sektori\/\">Steam<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-gb\/concept\/10013523\">PlayStation 5<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-GB\/games\/store\/sektori\/9N08R5G14Q0H\">Xbox Series S\/X<\/a>, right in the busy season, which is why it might have passed you by. Its arrival on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/platforms\/switch-2\">Switch 2<\/a> is a wonderful excuse to resurface it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Sektori, one of last year&#8217;s best games &#8211; and a game so closely related to twin-stick shooter Geometry Wars they could be the same thing &#8211; has finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/en-gb\/Games\/Nintendo-Switch-2-games\/Sektori-3080786.html?srsltid=AfmBOoogfOa9Q44eQF4bYDzGgpUdNDRcT6VidMVyZP-FgkoquGWuqzgT\">arrived on Nintendo Switch 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s developer, Kimmo Lahtinen &#8211; a 13-year veteran of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/returnal\">Returnal<\/a> and Saros developer Housemarque &#8211; shared a trailer of <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/gimblll.com\/post\/3mlsxk6lmsc2r\">Sektori running on Switch 2<\/a>, while suggesting the game may have us tear our hearts out in frustration. But reader, it won&#8217;t. Indeed, Chris was so positive about the game last year that he said you should, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/drop-everything-and-play-sektori\">&#8220;Drop everything and play Sektori.&#8221;<\/a> And he&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/hello-eurogamer-new-editor-in-chief-chris-tapsell\">our editor-in-chief now<\/a> so I think I have to agree with everything he says?<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Sektori - Switch 2 Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8IQEWAmYr2c?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/8IQEWAmYr2c\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Sektori &#8211; Switch 2 Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Sektori on Switch 2. Wear those thumbsticks out.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8IQEWAmYr2c\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I kid. I&#8217;ve played Sektori myself and been similarly entranced. It&#8217;s very close to Geometry Wars on a superficial level; it&#8217;s an arcade twin-stick shooter where you pilot a little ship around enclosed spaces while blasting away hordes of colourful, encroaching, simple-shaped enemies. And that frantic feeling of overwhelm that made Geometry Wars so thrilling, both to play and watch? Sektori recreates that immediately.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But beneath the surface are some new ideas. There&#8217;s an upgrade system that allows you to hoard and spend currency when you want, depending on the upgrade you want &#8211; do you save or do you spend? The playing arenas also periodically fracture into new shapes, as though you were looking at them through a kaleidoscope. There are bosses, too, and that&#8217;s in just one of the game&#8217;s modes. There&#8217;s a lot more here.<\/p>\n<p>Sektori was released last November on PC (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2105620\/Sektori\/\">Steam<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-gb\/concept\/10013523\">PlayStation 5<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-GB\/games\/store\/sektori\/9N08R5G14Q0H\">Xbox Series S\/X<\/a>, right in the busy season, which is why it might have passed you by. Its arrival on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/platforms\/switch-2\">Switch 2<\/a> is a wonderful excuse to resurface it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Sektori Attention Geometry Wars fans! Sektori is one of last year&#8217;s best arcade shooters, and it&#8217;s out on Switch 2 today Retro evolved. 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