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Character control switch

Video game concept

Player can and likely must switch control between several characters to progress, leaving the other character(s) unattended to behave autonomously or waiting for you to swap back to them.

135
games
39
platforms
Tony & Friends in Kellogg's Land (MS-DOS)
Tony & Friends in Kellogg's Land
DOS 1994
Futari wa Precure - Arienaai! Yume no Sono wa Daimeikyuu (Game Boy Advance)
Futari wa Precure - Arienaai! Yume no Sono wa Daimeikyuu
GBA 2004
Conflict: Denied Ops (Windows)
Conflict: Denied Ops
WIN 2008-02
The Humans (Game Boy)
The Humans
GB 1992
Alien Swarm (Windows)
Alien Swarm
WIN 2004-05-28
Survivors (Acorn Electron)
Survivors
ELEC 1987
Survivors (MSX)
Survivors
MSX 1987
Head Over Heels (Amstrad PCW)
Head Over Heels
PCW 1987
ObsCure II (Wii)
ObsCure II
WII 2007-11-07
Diggers (Amiga CD32)
Diggers
CD32 1993
Strike Force Cobra (Commodore 64)
Strike Force Cobra
C64 1986
Scooby-Doo! First Frights (PlayStation 2)
Scooby-Doo! First Frights
PS2 2009
See also: character switch

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Child group

Switch control within group

Games by year

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The first Character control switch video game was released in 1986.

THQ, Atlantis Software and Ocean published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 30
PS2 11
GBA 7
MS-DOS 7
Linux 6
Amiga 6
Amstrad CPC 4
SNES 4
ZX Spectrum 4
X360 4
C64 4
Xbox 3
PS3 3
Wii 3
Mac OS X 3
Nintendo DS 3
Jaguar 2
NES 2
Mega Drive 2
Saturn 2
Lynx 2
Amiga CD32 2
MSX 2
Atari ST 2
C16/Plus4 2
Atari 400/800 2
BBC 1
Amstrad PCW 1
GB 1
Flash 1

Most common companies

THQ10
Atlantis Software8
Ocean7
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment6
Ubi Soft6
Interplay5
Terrible Toybox4
RetroSpec4
Atari3
CodeMasters3
Kalypso Media Digital2
Microsoft Game Studios2
Gametek2
Microsoft2
Bandai2