8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I

8-bit Adventure Anthology is a compilation featuring faithful remakes of three of the best 8-bit point & click adventure games ever made. Originally released between 1987-1991, each stand-alone adventure…

76 31 October 2017 ESRB E10+

What 8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I is

8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I is an adventure game developed by General Arcade and released in 2017. It was published by Abstraction Games. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

8-bit Adventure Anthology is a compilation featuring faithful remakes of three of the best 8-bit point & click adventure games ever made. Originally released between 1987-1991, each stand-alone adventure features the same mind-blowing puzzles, graphics and music that mesmerized generations of console gamers!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

What it launched against

8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I launched on 31 October 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins and South Park: The Fractured But Whole. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole.

8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I — frequently asked questions