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Candy Box

Candy Box is an online game based around candy. The player must complete quests and collect all of the candy to win.

80 1 April 2013

Candy Box is an adventure developed by aniwey, released 1 April 2013 on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.

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What Candy Box is

Candy Box is an adventure game developed by aniwey and released in 2013. It is available on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Candy Box! is an incremental online text-based role-playing game that runs in web browser. It was developed by a 19-year-old French student using the pseudonym "aniwey" and released in April 2013. Candy Box! uses ASCII art for the visuals.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are action, business, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Candy Box holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Candy Box launched on 1 April 2013, within three weeks of BioShock Infinite, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Age of Empires II HD and BattleBlock Theater. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: BioShock Infinite, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Age of Empires II HD, BattleBlock Theater.

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When did Candy Box come out?
Candy Box was released on 1 April 2013 for Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.

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