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Playism is publishing Japanese indie developer Takayuki Yanagihara’s award-winning action-puzzler TorqueL in Europe and North America for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita on August 11th.

It’s a physics-based 2D puzzle platformer in which you play a gentleman trapped inside a box. The four sides of this box can be extended into long columns, and so by using the weight of these, as well as pushing them against the ground, you can roll the box across the levels.

TorqueL has 50 stages for you to beat and will be available for $9.99 with cross-buy enabled. It previously came out on PC in the west and is already available in Japan on PS4 and PS Vita.

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Japanese game publisher and digital marketplace Playism has confirmed with a new webpage the Japanese games it will be bringing to the US and Europe (confirmed via Twitter) this year on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

First up is TorqueL for both PS4 and PS Vita. It’s an award-winning action-puzzler in which you play a man inside a square. The challenge is to roll the man across the treacherous levels. You can extend long blocks out of each of the square’s four sides to lift, push, and thrust the man in the square around.

Next up is Prismatic Solid heading to the PS4 only. It’s a forced rail shooter with lots of different particle types, and projectiles that fill the entire screen in a haze of bright color. The more power-ups you have the better in this one as snake-like projectiles they send out absorb enemy bullets.

Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae is coming to PS4 as well. You play as school girl Misa as she uses her samurai sword to slash through waves of robots in an enclosed arena. Misa is after her former friend Suzuka who killed their teacher using her demonic blade.

Croixleur Sigma is heading to both PS4 and PS Vita. It’s a high-speed brawler that has you battling hordes of monsters up several floors of a tower in order to beat your childhood friend to the top. It has a Story Mode, multiple endings, two player co-op, as well as Time Trial, Survival, and Challenge modes.

The fifth title that Playism is bringing to the PS4 this year is Astebreed. This is an arcade shooter in which you pilot a mecha to save what’s left of humanity during a galactic war with an ancient mechanical alien race. Most notable is the game’s dynamic perspective, often switching between vertical, horizontal, and 3D shooter-styles across its levels.

Lastly, we have Revolver 360 RE:ACTOR making its way to PS4. This blue-washed shmup has you twisting and rotating your perspective in order to line up enemies into more manageable formations, and to dodge incoming bullets.

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Japanese indie game developer Takayuki Yanagihara is bringing his award-winning action-puzzler TorqueL to Steam on January 22nd. Playism is publishing the game on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

TorqueL has you playing as a man inside a square that uses to roll across the hazard-filled 2D levels. The four sides of the square correspond to a button each, and when pressed, a long block extends from that side. Using this, you have to push and roll the square over lava pits, around moving machines, and up to high platforms to reach the level’s exit.

The game has 50 puzzle chambers to beat with seven basic routes and one secret route to discover. At the Tokyo Game Show, it won Dengeki’s Game Award of Excellence in the “Indie” category. It was also given the Indie Stream Award 2014 for Best Game Design.

A free prototype version of TorqueL is available to for free from the links provided here. The commercial version is already available for ¥1000 on the Japanese PlayStation Store for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. The PlayStation version of TorqueL will be released in Europe and North America at a later date.

Check out TorqueL’s official website for more details.

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