Asfalia: The Cranky Volcano (2023) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Asfalia: The Cranky Volcano

In this moving and whimsical narrative adventure game, explore Asfalia, a magical world threatened by a raging volcano. Join Charlie as you meet amazing characters, solve fun puzzles, and collect beautiful…

60 23 January 2023

What Asfalia: The Cranky Volcano is

Asfalia: The Cranky Volcano is an adventure game developed by Funtomata and released in 2023. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity3D.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Charlie is lost inside Asfalia, the world of emotion, after being transported by an anger vortex. A big volcano is about to explode and destroy everything. A beautifully hand-drawn point & click adventure about emotions, friendship, change and many other themes to discover with children.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are educational and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Asfalia: The Cranky Volcano holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 16 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Asfalia: The Cranky Volcano launched on 23 January 2023, within three weeks of Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space, Metroid Prime Remastered and Hi-Fi Rush. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space, Metroid Prime Remastered, Hi-Fi Rush.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer