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Badland

Badland is an award-winning atmospheric side-scrolling action-adventure game that takes platforming to the next level with innovative use of physics in level design. It immerses players in an audiovisual…

70 4 April 2013

Badland is an adventure developed by Frogmind, released 4 April 2013 on Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS and Windows Phone.

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What Badland is

Badland is an adventure game developed by Frogmind and released in 2013. It is available on Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS and Windows Phone.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Badland is an award-winning atmospheric side-scrolling action adventure platformer set in a gorgeous forest full of various inhabitants, trees and flowers. Although the forest appears to be right out of a beautiful fairy tale, there’s something terribly wrong. The player controls one of the forest dwellers to find out what’s going on, and discovers an astonishing number of imaginative traps and obstacles on the way.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Badland holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 72, across 63 votes.

What it launched against

Badland launched on 4 April 2013, within three weeks of BioShock Infinite, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Age of Empires II HD and BattleBlock Theater. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: BioShock Infinite, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Age of Empires II HD, BattleBlock Theater.

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When did Badland come out?
Badland was released on 4 April 2013 for Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS and Windows Phone.

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