Commander Keen in Keen Dreams (1991) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Commander Keen in Keen Dreams

Trapped in a land where giant vegetables rule the day, you must fight your way through an army of vicious broccoli beasts, savage asparagus warriors and a bushel of other leafy green nasties before battling…

58 31 December 1991 ESRB E

What Commander Keen in Keen Dreams is

Commander Keen in Keen Dreams is an adventure game developed by id Software and released in 1991. It was published by Lone Wolf Technology. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, DOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Trapped in a land where giant vegetables rule the day, you must fight your way through an army of vicious broccoli beasts, savage asparagus warriors and a bushel of other leafy green nasties before battling the fiercest spud of all, King Boobus Tuber. Unless you want a one way trip to the salad bar in the sky, you'll have to finish all your veggies. Before they finish you!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Commander Keen in Keen Dreams holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1991 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Commander Keen in Keen Dreams launched on 31 December 1991, within three weeks of Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Baseball Stars 2 and James Pond 2: Codename - RoboCod. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Baseball Stars 2, James Pond 2: Codename - RoboCod.

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