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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker - Special Edition

Explore over 70 tricky, sandbox-style levels in Captain Toad: Treasure. Track down the Power Stars by yourself, or have a friend join you for the adventure in two-player co-op! The Special Edition includes: -…

80 13 November 2014 ESRB E

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker - Special Edition is a platform developed by Nintendo, released 13 November 2014 on Nintendo Switch and Wii U.

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What Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker - Special Edition is

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker - Special Edition is a platform game developed by Nintendo and released in 2014. It is available on Nintendo Switch and Wii U. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Playing as Captain Toad, you get to solve puzzles to save Toadette - who was abducted by a big bird. Later in the game, the roles are reversed. The Super Mario series Toad amiibo will unlock a bonus game on almost every course where the player has to find Pixel Toad. Any other amiibo will give the player a 1-Up Mushroom, or randomly two 1-Up Mushrooms.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric 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.

Where it sits in the Mario series

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker - Special Edition is the 520th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker in 2014. Its critic score of 80 is 3 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker - Special Edition holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 2,373 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker - Special Edition launched on 13 November 2014, within three weeks of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Tales from the Borderlands. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Tales from the Borderlands.

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When did Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker - Special Edition come out?
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker - Special Edition was released on 13 November 2014 for Nintendo Switch and Wii U.

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