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Badland: Game of the Year Edition

BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition is redesigned for the consoles and Steam and builds on the beautiful, hand-painted graphics of the original with enhanced Full-HD visuals. The controls have been expanded for…

67 26 May 2015 ESRB E

Badland: Game of the Year Edition is an adventure developed by Frogmind, released 26 May 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Wii U.

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What Badland: Game of the Year Edition is

Badland: Game of the Year Edition is an adventure game developed by Frogmind and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition is redesigned for the consoles and Steam and builds on the beautiful, hand-painted graphics of the original with enhanced Full-HD visuals. The controls have been expanded for the analog stick and triggers, a change that each level of the game has been carefully tuned to accommodate.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 78 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Badland: Game of the Year Edition holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz CPU (Dual Core recommended), 1 GB RAM and Graphics Card made within the last 5 years (Pixel Shader 2.0, Vertex Shader 2.0). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Badland: Game of the Year Edition launched on 26 May 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Splatoon, Heroes of the Storm and Project CARS. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Splatoon, Heroes of the Storm, Project CARS.

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Badland: Game of the Year Edition — frequently asked questions

When did Badland: Game of the Year Edition come out?
Badland: Game of the Year Edition was released on 26 May 2015 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Badland: Game of the Year Edition?
At minimum, Badland: Game of the Year Edition needs 2.0 GHz CPU (Dual Core recommended), 1 GB RAM, Graphics Card made within the last 5 years (Pixel Shader 2.0, Vertex Shader 2.0) graphics, 300 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Badland: Game of the Year Edition?
The PC version needs about 0.3 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("300 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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